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The Impact of Changes in Social Security on Everyday Life (5 ECTS)

Code: SX00DL74-3002

General information


Enrollment
02.05.2023 - 14.05.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
15.08.2022 - 31.12.2022
Implementation has ended.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 ECTS
Virtual portion
2 ECTS
Mode of delivery
On-campus and online
Campus
Myllypurontie 1
Teaching languages
Finnish
Seats
0 - 32
Degree programmes
Social Services
Teachers
Katja Ihamäki
Teacher in charge
Katja Ihamäki
Groups
SXH20K2
Sosiaalialan tutkinto-ohjelma, monimuoto
Course
SX00DL74
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Learning outcomes

Students will identify possibilities of wellbeing professionals and civil society to support people in life management and to improve the society. They will know how to apply options offered by social security and society in different situations in everyday life.

Content

Identifying and predicting changes in society. Impacts of the changes on individuals’ everyday life. Reducing the welfare gap. Participating in current projects in social services or familiarization with other practices in social security reforms.

Teaching methods

Contact teaching nd networking in moodle.
Assignments in moodle.
Exam in Oma

Location and time

Contact teaching, visits and assignments in moodle.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Exam literature:
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
- Yhteiskehittämällä ratkaisuja sote-palveluihin. Kansalaiset ja palvelunkäyttäjät mukaan kehittämiseen. Diak-työelämä / 25. Sivut 12-44, 80-87.

Other litterature:
- 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
- Näkökulmia osallistavaan tutkimus-, kehittämis- ja innovaatiotoimintaan : Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulun TKI-toiminnan vuosikirja 5. Toim. Jari Helminen. 2020. Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulu Helsink. https://issuu.com/diak_publications/docs/diak_ty_el_m__18_web?e=35131638/78917065

Internship and working life connections

Ryhmätyö työelämän kanssa

Exam dates and retake possibilities

Re exam days on

Student workload

Contact teaching and exam in Oma. (18 h)
Network (teaching material in moodle) and assignments
Exam in Oma (in net)

Further information for students

The key to Moodle

Contact teaching and networking, assignments in Moodle. exam in Oma.

Lecturer Katja Ihamäki

Schedule:
Thu 18.8. at 12.45-16* Intro and contact teaching. MPA2019.
Fri 2.9. at 12.45-16.* MPA2019
Fri 9.9. at 12.45-16.* MPA2019
Fri 23.9. at 12.45-16.* MPA2019 Place can change. Presentations
Fri 30.9. at 10.15-11.45 Exam in Oma.

Assessment methods and criteria

Teaching in zoom, teaching material and assignments n moodle and literature:
Exam in Oma: contact teaching, literature and Moodle.
Exam literature:
- 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
- Yhteiskehittämällä ratkaisuja sote-palveluihin. Kansalaiset ja palvelunkäyttäjät mukaan kehittämiseen. Diak-työelämä / 25. Sivut 12-44, 80-87.

Assignments accepted/abandoned (20 %)
Exam in Oma: 80 %

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

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