Course Topics
1. SOCIAL EDUCATION a. Definitions b. Fluid boundaries in the history and geography of social professions c. Human rights for structure and agency: developing capabilities to access human rights d. Transdisciplinary research and development e. Community development and social innovation through participation f. Strategies and models for social education towards social change and transformation. g. Coping with life as individuals, as groups, as organizations, as a society: Multilevel, multisector and multiactor networking for social change. 2. FIELDS a. The life course b. Gender c. Migration d. Health e. Socio-Economic disadvantage f. Housing g. Fair labor h. Organizational change 3. METHODS a. Clarifying mandates and objectives and contextualizing the intervention field b. Harnessing the expertise and resources of users, by generating eye-level relations in the midst of asymmetric conditions c. Outreach methods towards the hard-to-reach d. Transforming structured reception: dealing with challenges in communal living and reception centers. e. Bridging users and services: processes of reciprocal learning to lower the thresholds f. Participation & communication for social transformation

Teaching format
Lessons will be held in presence.

Educational objectives
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: The course will analyze several methodologies and fields of practice in social education, through targeted literature and by generating processes of reflexivity about social interventions experienced or observed by students themselves. Therefore, the course will provide both a general overview of scientific contents, as well as professional skills and methodologies to craft targeted interventions. METHODOLOGY: It will be a participative course, with some presentations by the professor, instances of flipped classroom methodology, debates as well as guest teachers and professionals. It will offer a choice of readings and practical tasks for students to self-elaborate and -jointly with peers- construct packages of knowledge that are particularly useful for their preferred fields of practice, while introducing a general overview of key elements for all. 1. Knowledge and understanding - Gain knowledge about theories and concepts that are useful and applicable to social intervention fields. - Appreciate the time, place and context in which such theories were constructed, in order to better evaluate and adapt theories to current field requirements, and critically appraising their constitutional assumptions and premises. - Explore some of the main fields of intervention for social pedagogists. - Gain a toolbox of strategies, methods and instruments that may be applied in such fields. 2. Applying knowledge and understanding - Reflect on personal experiences of intervention, participation or observation in social pedagogy contexts - Gain awareness of structural factors influencing individual conditions. - Identify effective methodologies as applied in the context, by recognizing and discussing real or narrated intervention designs. 3. Making judgements - Increase the ability to perceive, accept and adapt to diversity. - Learn to identify contextual factors related to the field itself, not reducing wider social questions into individual issues. - Enhance capabilities for boundary- and risk-management in the field. 4. Communication skills - Learn to extract, repackage and present knowledge from scientific literature sources in the context of social professions. - Learn to articulate and express reflexive experiences on one’s own professional field of practice. - Learn to engage with others by offering useful insights on their work, both critically and respectfully. 5. Learning skills - Enhance context analysis capabilities - Enhance capabilities for reading and writing academic knowledge - Enhance intervention design and evaluation skills

Assessment
- Individual task: Literature review exercise - Team work: Presentation of a chosen case study analysis in class - Final test: applying theory in fields of social education Reflexive participation in class will be recognized

Evaluation criteria
All required tasks must be handed in in order to achieve a positive grade. Points for grade: Literature review 20%, case study analysis 40%, final test 40% of grade. Extra points for outstanding reflexive participation can be added, Literature review exercise: evaluation of summary of main theories and concepts, usage of correct references (APA), critical thoughts and application of literature Case study analysis: Context analysis, description of intervention objectives and methodology, structure, resources and outcomes Test: compétence of applying theory in fields of social education