Opinto-opas

Objective

Students will identify the most common risks to social exclusion and their impact on people’s possibilities to manage their lives. They will know how to apply social security options to individuals’ everyday lives.

Content

Reducing the welfare gap. Social security options in high-risk life management situations: unemployment, illnesses, disability, immigration, youth at the risk of social exclusion.

Location and time

In the zoom and moodle.

Materials

Social Policy in challenging times. Economic crisis and welfare systems. Eds. Kevin Farnsworth ja Zoë Irving. The Polity Press. 2011.
- Social Work. Themes, Issues and Critical Debates. Eds. Robert Adams etc. Palgrave. 2009
- Cross-cultural Rehabilitation. An International Perspective. Ed. Ronnie Leavitt. W. B. Saunders. 1999
- Social Security in Finland. Niemelä and Salminen. Kela. 2006
- Personal Budget, Pubications: http://henkilokohtainenbudjetointi.fi/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Henkil%C3%B6kohtaisen-budjetoinnin-kehitt%C3%A4miseen-liittyvi%C3%A4-julkaisuja-lyhyt-kooste-marraskuu-2017.pdf
- Vastavuoroinen sosiaalityö. 2016. Gaudeamus. Ed. Marjatta Törrönen etc.
- Socca - The Centre of Excellence on Social Welfare in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area http://www.socca.fi/in_english

Teaching methods

Teaching in zoom and networking in moodle.
Assignments in moodle.
Moodle Exam

Exam schedules

Re exam days on Mon 25.1. and Mon 23.2.20212021.

Student workload

Contact in the zoom and exam. (12 h)
Network (teaching material in moodle) and assignments 83 h
Moodle Exam 40 h

Further information

The key to Moodle Arki2019

Teaching in zoom and networking, assignments:
Lecturer Katja Ihamäki
- Wed 26.8. at 12.45-16 Zoom (MPA2019)
- Thu 8.10. at 12.45-16. Zoom (MPA2019)
- Tue 10.11. at 12.45-15. Moodle exam (MPA2019)
- Thu 12.11. at 14-16. Social and health care seminar (voluntary)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment:
Assessment criteria as the attachment of the curriculum.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Assessment:
Assessment criteria see the attachment.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.

Assessment methods and criteria

Teaching in zoom, also teaching material in moodle, assignments and literature:
Moodle exam: teaching in zoom and literature.
Literature:
- Elsa Keskitalo & Päivi Vuokila-Oikkonen (2018): Voimavaralähtöisyys sosiaalisen kuntoutuksen viitekehyksenä 84-96.
- Päivi Vuokila-Oikkonen & Elsa Keskitalo (2018): Sosiaalisen kuntoutuksen voimavara- ja ratkaisukeskeiset menetelmät.164-176. Sosiaalisen kuntoutuksen näkökulmia ja mahdollisuuksiaHarri Kostilainen & Ari Nieminen (toim.). Diak. Työelämä 13.
Saatavilla myös verkossa: https://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/141721/Diak_Tyoelama_13_verkko.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y
- Anna Metteri, Pekka Karjalainen ja Minna Strömberg-Jakka: Tiekartta 2030. Aikuisten parissa tehtävän sosiaalityön tulevaisuusselvitys (STM:n raportteja ja muistioita 2019:41). http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/161612
Assignments accepted/abandoned (10 %)
Moodle exam: 90 %