Strategies and Resources for Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion
Code
722081080
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
From different points of view, the aim is to enable students to:
1. Identify key resources and strategies used in combating poverty and social exclusion;
2. Treat different levels of problems and approaches proposed to them, as well as different status of resources and strategies;
3. Communicate clearly the knowledge on the subjects addressed.
Approaches aim an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional level of actions and, when appropriate, they consider the comparative international dimension.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Module A: \"Bad\" integration, inexistence, social vulnerability and new challenges for social policies
Module B: Politics and instruments to combat poverty in Portugal and Europe
Module C: International policies and instruments to support economic development and social protection in poor countries
Module D: Conjunctures and management strategies of individual and collective resources in the case of families living in extreme precariousness
Bibliography
BIT, STEP, 2003, A Luta contra a Pobreza e a Exclusão Social em Portugal, Experiências do Programa de Luta contra a Pobreza, BIT/STEP, Genebra
Estivill, J., 2003, Panorama da luta contra exclusão social. Conceitos e estratégias, BIT/STEP, Genebra.
J. Estivill e al., 2006, Activar a Participação, Pequenas Experiências Grandes Esperanças, REAPN, Porto
Vivianne Châtel e M.H. Soulet, 2002, Faire Face et sen sortir, vol. 1 e 2, Rès Socialis, Éditions Universitaires d Fribourg, Fribourg
Rodrigues, Fernanda, 1999, Assistência Social e Políticas Sociais em Portugal, Departamento editorial do ISSScoop, Lisboa
Teaching method
Interactive methodology combining a moment of question formultation that tends to enhance the possible experience of students, and another moment of systematization in order to integrate adequately the contents and regulating the students´ research processes.
Evaluation method
The assessment is based on contributions from students in class and in their subsequent formalization, a written assignment. It is expected that students integrate training contents in their thesis work. In addition, as far as transversal contents are concerned, students are expected to fill the thematic dossiers intended for the work of the whole group.