Study:	Social Work - 2. semester
Code:	43942
ECTS:	3.0
Course coordinators:	doc. dr. sc. Dora Dodig Hundrić

Literature:

Bouillet, D., Uzelac, S.; Osnove socijalne pedagogije; Zagreb: Školska knjiga (izabrana poglavlja) (2007), str

Optional literature:

Žižak, A.; Teorijske osnove intervencija; Zagreb: Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet (izabrana poglavlja) (2010), str Poldrugač, Z., Bouillet, D., Ricijaš, N.; Socijalna pedagogija - znanost, profesija i praksa u Hrvatskoj; Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet (izabrana poglavlja) (2011), str Huić, A., Ricijaš, N., Branica, V.; Kako definirati i mjeriti kompetencije studenata; Ljetopis studijskog centra socijalnog rada, 12, 2, . (2010), str. 195-221

Description:

The course aims to introduce students to important concepts of social pedagogy and complex area of the behavioural disorders of children and young people, as well as young people with special needs, to point out the significance of scientific, theoretical and practical aspects of social-pedagogical interventions with the emphasis on the need for an interdisciplinary approach. Course description - Modern social pedagogy: definition, subject-matter, basic theoretical concepts; - Scientific foundation of social pedagogy; - Relation between social pedagogy and other helping professions (especially social work); - Conceptual determination of behavioural disorders (terminological issues, definitions, classifications, criteria of categorisation); - Etiology of behavioural disorders: multicausality, dialectics and dynamics; - Conceptual determination of social integration (upbringing of persons with behavioural disorders); - Importance of ethics in social-pedagogical interventions; - Specific features of social-pedagogical interventions (continuum of interventions); - Importance of team work in social integration of persons with behavioural disorders

Cognitive Skills:

INTELLECTUAL (COGNITIVE) SKILLS

Knowledge and understanding

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- define modern social pedagogy;

- critically evaluate and recognise social circumstances of the development of social pedagogy;

- explain and estimate scientific foundation of social pedagogy;

- recognise etiological factors of the development of behavioural problems;

Application

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- interpret the differences and similarities between social pedagogy and other helping professions;

- interpret the elements of the process of social integration of children and youth with behavioural problems;

- recognise and explain levels of problems in the behaviour of the children and youth;

- explain prerequisites of the development and implementation of social-pedagofical interventions

Analysis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- compare sceintifically justified and unjustified social-pedagogical interventions;

- critically analyse the subject matter of modern social pedagogy;

- connect the internal and external motivation for behaviour;

- compare different theoretical explanations of behaviour and upbringing

Synthesis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- connect legal, institutional and scientific components of social-pedagogical interventions;

- formulate parts of the continuum of social-pedagogical interventions;

- connect levels of behavioural problems and the continuum of social-pedagogical interventions;

- organise a comprehensive social-pedagogical intervention

Evaluation

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- examine biological-psychosocial circumstances of the development of behavioural problems of the children and youth;

- assess the efficiency of individual social-pedagogical interventions;

- evaluate the role of individual participants in social-pedagogical interventions;

- examine ethical components of social-pedagogical interventions.

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- adequately use social-pedagogical terminology;

- participate in the work of a professional team that includes a social pedagogue;

- recommend an appropriate intervention directed towards children and youth with different levels of behavioural problems

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

- Learning outcomes related to intellectuial (cognitive) skills will be tested by a written examination or two mid-term examinations that contain problem tasks

- Learning outcomes related to practical and generic skills will be tested by written tasks of an essay type

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