Overall objectives:

1 - Understand the potential of Education and community intervention methodologies in social development policies
2 - Analyse the participation of the territory's citizens as a right and a duty that subsists to social change
3 - Analyse contexts of educational intervention and the experience of Portuguese municipalities, framing them in the psychological and sociological perspectives of community intervention
4 - Identify the main assumptions of municipal/local educational projects and their legacy for community development
5 - Recognize social dynamics and formal, non-formal and informal education in community development processes
6 - Develop attitudes of scientific autonomy in the planning of a relevant and original project
7 - Publicly defend the research project and community intervention

Syllabus:

1 - Contemporary theories and models of development
2 - The historical background and conceptual perspectives of community development
3 - Community Intervention in the psychological and sociological perspective of action
4 - The Offices of Community Intervention
5 - The methodology of intervention and community development
6 - The specifics of Action Research (Participatory) in the construction of Community Intervention and Participation Projects
7 - Organizational models, coordination, and local administration of education
8 - Participatory Budgets, Educating Cities and Learning Cities and other epistemological spaces of emancipation and social inclusion

Literature/Sources:

Bandeira, A. et al , 2007 , Projetos de Inovação Comunitária , Fundação Aga Kahn
Guerra, I. , 2002 , Fundamentos e processos de uma sociologia de ação: o planeamento em ciências sociais , Princípia
Guerra, I. , 2006 , Participação e ação coletiva. Interesses, conflitos e consensos , Princípia
Menezes, I. , 2010 , Intervenção Comunitária: uma perspetiva psicológica , Livpsic
Oliveira, C., Paulo, J. & Antunes, M. (Eds.) , 1999 , Educação de Adultos e Intervenção Comunitária , Instituto de Educação e Psicologia da Universidade do Minho
Pérez-Serrano, G. , 2008 , Elaboração de Projetos Sociais: casos práticos , Porto Editora
Pinheiro, M. R. & Gaspar, M. F. , 2018 , Desenhar projetos de intervenção social , Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e Fundação Bissaya Barreto
Robertis, C. , 2011 , Metodologia da Intervenção em Trabalho Social , Porto Editora

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
This CU supposes an active participation of the students in the search, interpretation, and application of collected scientific information. It is hoped that students develop gradual processes of autonomy in the design and projection of relevant and original scientific research and community intervention. They are provided with contact with social workers and with various projects, contained in the collections of CIE-UMa and other national and foreign HEI. The evaluation focuses on the analysis and discussion of the project, with a weight of 50% for the scientific quality of the project, through the pertinence and originality of the subject, systematization of theoretical information, options and rigor of the methodological framework, analysis of the articulation between the theoretical and methodological framework and the development of the project, and academic style writing, and 50% for the oral defence of the project.