OVERVIEW

The teaching, integrated with that of methods and techniques of evaluation of the social and formative policies (Code 87038), aims to provide to the students the basic knowledge and competences for the analysis of the needs in the social contexts, the programming, design and evaluation of interventions in the educational and social field and offer them opportunities to experiment with techniques and tools that can be used in these areas, under the guidance and supervision of the teachers.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Illustrate the challenges to social design in complex society and the ways in which the social designer operates, particularly in the public sphere. Illustrate the processes and strategies of evaluative research, with a deeper focus on public decision-making contexts, on the types and objectives of evaluation, on the use in social and training policies. Give the fundamental theoretical concepts of the evaluation and the techniques and tools used in evaluative research.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

To have a clear conception of the new frontiers of social programming and of the techniques necessary to achieve it

To have a clear conception of the new frontiers of social policies in the new welfare

To know the models of analysis of decision-making processes and understand how use it for the design and evaluation of social policies

To manage the fundamental concepts of evaluation and know the related  methodological and theoretical implications

To be able to build projects with the Project Cycle Management method and the Logical Framework

To be able to construct problems’ tree and objectives’ tree as well as stakeholders’ map as essential components of social policies design

TEACHING METHODS

Face to face lessons

group works

Testimonials

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course starts from the characteristics that social design assumes in complex society, highlighting the epistemological and methodological difficulties of social engineering and correlativelying the difficulties of defining the profession of Social designer. Abandoned the role of technical neutral, thanks to the participatory design can find answers to the impracticability of the model of synoptic rationality, however redefining its professional role and innovating its work tools. Analyzed theoretical models of reference, generative causality and mechanisms opposed to linear causality, the course addresses the basic principles of social design, focousing in particular in the current evolution of the welfare state. Special attention is given to co-designing, which is said to be a typical mode of work in the educational and social field.
Then the course goes on analyzing the basic principles of the evaluation of public policies, distinguishing from monitoring and putting in light purposes and uses. The main reference theories and the operational modalities deriving also from European policies will be illustrated.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Palumbo M., Il processo di valutazione, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2002

​Siza R., Manuale di progettazione sociale, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2018

Further readings for non attending students:

Stame N., Valutazione pluralista, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2016

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MAURO PALUMBO (President)

CLAUDIO TORRIGIANI (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Ist semester 2018/19

Class schedule

PLANNING, ANALYSIS, PLANNING OF THE SOCIAL AND FORMATIVE POLITICS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

For the non-attending students the exam is written. The student who has passed the script, once informed of the mark, will decide whether to accept it, integrate it with a question about a specific thematic area, which is put in oral mode in the next call, or reject the mark and present itself in subsequent session.

For attending students, it is possible to use the mode envisaged for the non-attending, or to carry out intermediate tests, which will take place in autumn 2019 during the course of the teaching. Two intermediate tests are foreseen, each of which will gave 15 points. The final mark will consist in the sum of the two marks. Students who fails or does not accept the mark of one of the two Tests will be able to complete the exam orally. For the student aiming to improve the mark of the interim tests, a short oral examination is foreseen on a part of the program defined according to the results of the intermediate tests to the next section, for the registration of the mark.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

short questions on the topics of the course and on its use in design and evaluation of social policies

Exam schedule