Key words
Structural Approach of Social Work
Objectives
Students learn to look at individual social problems in a broader structural sense, and how to accompany the changing process and establish communication channels to influence policy decision making.
Topics
Structural approach of individual problems.
Methods of Social Development, Social Action, Empowerment, Networking,...
How to achieve objectives agreed by the involved, accompanying the changing process and establishing communication channels to influence policy decision making.
Prerequisites
theoretical and methodological competences of the firts and second year,
(learning-) experiences in the field of social work.
Final Objectives
Students understand and integrate in their professional behavior:
the micro-,meso-en macrodimension of the social functioning of people and human service organisations.
de interaction between those three levels in the proces of problematisation and remediating psycho-soacial functioning.
the concept of normative proffesionality.
critical vision on their future profession.
methodological framework for systemic influences on the meso- and macrolevel .
development of an emancipational vision upon individual social work
Materials used
Own notitions + syllabus
Study costs
5 euro
Study guidance
possibility of questioning during the colleges.
possibility to make individual appointments
Teaching Methods
Lectures alternated with dialogues and discussions, whereas students' visions, experiences and arguments are basic input. Exercises in small working groups.
Assessment
Examination - yes
Period - June
Form - Students have oral examination based on a written task. The student reflects on the matter and formulates personal opinions toward the handled issues.
Lecturer(s)
Agnes Verbruggen
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