Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

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

Prerequisites

None.

Subject matter

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 s’en 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.

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