CODE 87039 ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 1 PEDAGOGIA, PROGETTAZIONE E RICERCA EDUCATIVA (LM-85) - SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SPS/07 LANGUAGE Italiano TEACHING LOCATION SEMESTER 1° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL POLICIES TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course, integrated with Programming, analysis and design of social and educational policies (code 87039), aims to provide students with the knowledge and basic skills for the needs analysis in social settings, programming, designing and evaluating educational and social interventions and provide them with opportunities to experiment techniques and tools used in these areas, under the guidance and supervision of the professors of two teachings. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Illustrate the challenges to social planning in complex society and the ways in which social Designer work, particularly in the public sector. Illustrate the processes and strategies of evaluation research, with focus on public decision-making contexts, types and purposes of the evaluation, the use in social and educational policies. Invoke the fundamental theoretical concepts of evaluation and the techniques and instruments used in evaluation research. TEACHING METHODS Lectures, presentation and critical discussion of cases, guided exercises and group work SYLLABUS/CONTENT The course starts illustrating the features that takes social planning in a complex society, the epistemological and methodological difficulties highlighting social engineering and taking account of the difficulties of defining the profession of social designer. Abandoned the role of neutral technician, thanks to community planning he/she can find answers to the impracticability of the synoptic model of rationality, redefining the role of rationality in planning activity and innovating the role of social designer and their own work tools. Assayed reference, theoretical models of causality and generative mechanisms as opposed to linear ones, the course covers the basic principles of project management, placing them in particular in the current evolution of the welfare state. Specific attention is paid to the “co-design”, which has been spreading as typical way in education and social work. We then move on to analyzing the basic principles of policy evaluation, distinguishing it from monitoring and highlighting its purpose and use. You will learn the major theoretic framework and operational procedures deriving from European policies. Through group work, the aim of the course is to enable students to work in the field of design and evaluation of social and educational policies. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Palumbo M., Il processo di valutazione, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2002 De Ambrogio U, Guidetti C., La coprogettazione. La partnership tra pubblico e terso settore, Carocci, Roma, 2016 For not attending is expected to read a further text: Stame N., Valutazione pluralista, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2016 TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD MAURO PALUMBO Ricevimento: Place: DISFOR, room 3A9. In the first semester, after lessons; Once the lessons will cease (from December 2016) on Monday morning and afternoon and Tuesday morning, by appointment via email palumbo@unige.it Hours: Exam Board MAURO PALUMBO (President) CLAUDIO TORRIGIANI (President) LESSONS LESSONS START 26th of September 2016 Class schedule PLANNING, ANALYSIS, PLANNING OF THE SOCIAL AND FORMATIVE POLITICS EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Oral. Students prepare a group work that they will present in public and this work and also the presentation will be evaluated for the purpose of the final mark; It is expected, however, an oral examination to complete the test ASSESSMENT METHODS The test aims to ascertain the following aspects of the student's preparation: Knowledge about the basic concepts of the course Ability to apply them within the specific contexts (education or training) Ability to build pathways to educational and social policy design and evaluation Possession of these components of the student's preparation will be ensured through specific oral questions or, in the case of teamwork, evaluating the skills highlighted by work and the ability to expose and to answer to questions posed by the teacher Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 22/05/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 05/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 20/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 05/07/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 08/09/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 22/09/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale FURTHER INFORMATION The course will use aulaweb, which students are required to enroll as soon as 2016-17 teachings will be activated. On the site will be given further material and the student's general interest information will be inserted