Competences and Society of the Individuals
Code
722081101
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
It is intended that students acquire:
1. Understanding of the importance of professional qualification in three analysis dimensions: (a) acquisition of skills throughout life, (b) insertion in the knowledge world, (c) organizations flexibility;
2. Theoretical understanding of the great issues on human capital enhancement;
3. Capacity for conceiving forecast scenarios, in the world of the knowledge society, which should guide today the innovation projects;
4. Ability to infer knowledge for the Masters dissertation, work project or internship;
5. Ability to communicate clearly the areas relevant knowledge.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1 Introduction: theoretical approach
1.1 Knowledge in organizations
1.2 The four capitals: intelligence, structural, human and social
1.3 The organizations of today/tomorrow
1.4 The competencies in organizations
2 Some of the topics to be addressed at the seminar (possibly others in case of, according to the interest of the master students, being more relevant)
2.1 Knowledge management, learning and strategic skills
2.2 Knowledge-based economies
2.3 Globalization and the Information Society
2.4 Qualify human resources in a perspective of economic and social cohesion: scenarios
2.5 Education and the construction of personal identities and projects
2.6 Key role of production and absorption of knowledge in the innovation process
2.7 Conditions for change and flexibility in the management of people
2.8 Skills for scenarios located on axes of change
2.9 Organizational management and knowledge
Bibliography
Caraça, João (2003), \"Novelty, knowledge and learning\", em Pedro Conceição, Manuel V. Heitor, e Bengt-Åke Lundvall (orgs.), Innovation, Competence Building and Social Cohesion in Europe, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.
Carneiro, Roberto (coord.), O Futuro da educação em Portugal, tendências e oportunidades: Um estudo de reflexão prospectiva, Lisboa, Ministério da Educação-DAPP, 2002 (4 vols.)
Costa, António Firmino da; Fernando Luís Machado e Patrícia Ávila (orgs.) (2007), Portugal no Contexto Europeu: Sociedade e Conhecimento, Lisboa, Celta Editora.
Dutra, J., Gestão por competências, São Paulo, Gente, 2001
Furtado, José Afonso (2012), Uma Cultura da Informação para o Universo Digital, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Lisboa
Sunstein, C. (2006) Infotopia: How many minds produce knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Teaching method
Lectures on the key concepts and their theoretical framework
Evaluation method
Individual study work and presentation by each student of texts from the basic bibliography and others; group discussion.
Supervision in regime of tutoring for the preparation of a paper by each student on a relevant topic from the given lectures.