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Teaching is concentrated in the faculties and schools, and the departments deal with research, which is also conducted by institutes and chairs, at the same time responsible for knowledge promotion.
The purpose of this module is to facilitate an approach to the professional figure of the social educator in the main spaces of professional intervention to the students of new entry, in its functions and workspaces preferential.Education and socio-educational intervention in the contemporary world.The contexts of professional practice in social education.Main areas and sectors of intervention in social education: characteristics, evolution, current situation and perspectives of future.The educator/in social as a professional: development of the profession and relation with other social agents.Systems of access to the information as a basic knowledge for the update of knowledge in social education.Strategies of bibliographical research, selection, organisation, presentation, analysis and criticism of the information.
a) Approach to educational thought: education and education sciences, theoretical and methodological trends in education, educational challenges today: globalisation, information society and education.B) Educational contexts and stakeholders: the key role of families in intergenerational education, education in communities and cities as a social integration space, leisure as a social engagement tool, peer groups and the media.
Basic concepts for sociocultural analysis, theories of culture and society, the evolution of modern society to postmodernity, elements for the identity construction and cultural diversity and the analysis of the pillars of inequality in current society; migratory fluxes, cultural diversity and social challenges, study of the processes of integration in multicultural contexts, the bases and challenges of intercultural education and intervention strategies from an intercultural perspective.
This module is structured around the analysis and knowledge of the fundamental psychological concepts and processes for understanding social contexts and development in relation to reasoning and behaviour.This analysis is organised into three large sections, which enables enabling us to address issues ranging from generic subjects such as interaction and the socialisation process to more specific issues such as interpersonal relations.1.- Interaction and the social reality: change related to socialisation and learning processes.2.- Development of social perception: stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination.3.- Intergroup relations and social identities in the different life stages.4.- Conformity and conflict as a driver of social change.5.- Interpersonal relations and their deployment.
This module is destined to the orientation of the student in its incorporation in the university world to facilitate its development in the academic life, working professional competences initially.Contents related to independent learning strategies at university will be worked on.The work in team at the university as a space of professional competences learning of the social educator.Resolving conflicts in academia: tools of reflection and improvement.
This module aims to develop in students instrumental, communicative and systemic skills relating to digital and audiovisual culture, enabling their personal and professional development in the current context, based on the following content: - Basic features of the knowledge society and the main social, cultural and educational repercussions.- Core components of audiovisual communication: industry and the production process, the different categories of the media and genres, the elements that comprise audiovisual language, the media’s representation of reality and its impact on the audience.- Researching, selecting and processing information using different techniques and strategies, depending on the source and the supports used (printed, audiovisual, digital).- Understanding and composing different messages with a diverse range of communicative or creative intentions, promoting critical and reflexive attitudes when appraising the available information, contrasting it where necessary, and respecting the rules agreed in the professional area to regulate the use of information.
Its purpose is to show the policies of social welfare and the legislation that the processes of socio-educational intervention found.Understand the following social continguts:-Polítiques: Conceptual aspects.Welfare State and Public Policies.Sectorial social policies.Specific social policies for determinate collectives.-Legislation applied to the social education: The general legal frame of the intervention of the social educator.The rights and duties of the addressees of the intervention and of the users of the services.The positioning of the educator in the face of determinate family situations and the intervention in minors and persons made impossible.Basic regulations of the main areas: disability, old age, dependence, immigration, domestic and gender violence.The intervention of the educator in relation to crimes and sentences.Drafting reports and other legal documents.Deontological and ethical aspects of the work of the social educator.
The purpose behind this module is to provide skills for preparing not just diagnostics but also social and educational plans of action.The aim is to have an impact in particular on projects with a community dimension and thereby provide the main contents that can ensure their correct foundation and structuring.The module is divided up into three large units: a) community development, sociocultural animation, participation and empowerment, b) tools for preparing social and educational diagnostics, and c) designing of social and educational action plans and programmes.
Daily life as an intervention area for the social educator.Definition of the main contexts of daily life (family, school, education, the world of work, spare time and leisure).Risk factors and protection in different contexts.Socio-educational intervention in different contexts.Preparing intervention proposals in contexts of daily life.The interview as an instrument for socio-educational intervention.
This module is aimed at knowledge, study and analysis of socio-educational programmes and tools applied to groups with which the social educator works.It therefore allows in-depth analysis into one of the spaces or areas of the social educator’s work, precisely addressing the particularities and conditions specific to the intervention depending on the area, sector or group in question.In each one of the studied areas the current models of socio-educational intervention will be analysed depending on the area or sector, as well as some of the main tools, strategies and methodologies used in socio-educational intervention and suggested innovations to improve socio-educational intervention.
This module focuses on working on some cross-disciplinary competences with students applied to academic life with the aim of them acquiring knowledge, skills and attitudes that they will later have to develop during their career.It is a matter of providing students with a space to learn basic skills in establishing interpersonal relations, troubleshooting and managing their emotions, before their external placements.The content includes: verbal and non verbal communication: assertive communication; interpersonal relationship skills and ability to dialogue: active listening and empathy.Managing emotions.Conflict resolution
This module is dedicated to introducing and working on practice and/or real case studies of intervention that allow students the possible maximum contact with professional practice.The proposed content includes analysing situations to find out how, based on certain needs, services and/or institutions are activated, the juridical and legal aspects affecting the case; inter-professional work and the functions of the social educators in the different centres and services involved in each case; actions to respond to the needs, analysis of alternatives and suggested improvements.
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