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

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

The exam is written. The student who has passed the written test comes to the next session for an oral question and the registration of the vote.

The attending students may decide to carry out a group project work (groups of up to 6-7 people). These students will benefit from the program reductions specified in the "Texts / Bibliography" section. They will have to sustain the written test for both modules (87038 and 87039) during the winter session and, after acquiring the necessary knowledge and tools, they will independently develop the project work during the second semester and will be enabled to present it to the teachers during the summer session. For those students, the vote for each module will be given by the average of the evaluation assigned to the written test (60%) and to the project (40%). The evaluation of the project will consider the quality of the project (70%) the quality of Power Point presentation (10%) the quality of the oral presentation of each group component (20%). The overall vote for the integrated course (average of both modules 87038 and 87039) will be recorded only after the presentation of the project.

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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

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