Study Guide

Objective

Students will identify the possibilities of regional networking in strengthening the clients’ participation and agency. Students can identify the existing structures of the community, its history, agents and networks. They identify the challenges faced by the community and encourage co-operation between different agents. Students know how to apply different research and teamwork methods in regional work.

Content

Intrinsic and cultural structures, layers and historical phases of community: sub and partial cultures. Examination of reality and starting social changes through action research methods. Regional work, networking and community work. Traditions of neighbourhood and local activity and socio-pedagogical work.

Location and time

Tentative Schedule (subject to change)

31.10.2022 09.00 - 11.45 MPA4010
01.11.2022 09.00 - 11.45 MPA4010
07.11.2022 12.45 - 16.00 MPA6020
08.11.2022 09.00 - 11.45 MPA4010
09.11.2022 12.45 - 16.00 MPA2019
15.11.2022 12.45 - 16.00 MPA4010
17.11.2022 12.45 - 16.00 Independent Work
18.11.2022 12.45 - 16.00 Independent Work
22.11.2022 12.45 - 16.00 Independent Work
24.11.2022 12.45 - 16.00 Independent Work
29.11.2022 12.45 - 16.00 MPA4010
01.12.2022 12.45 - 16.00 MPA4010
02.12.2022 08.30 - 16.00 Independent Work
07.12.2022 12:45 - 16.00 MPA4010
12.12.2022 10.00 - 16.00 MPA4010

Materials

Required reading materials:
Ledwith, Margaret (2011): Community Development - a critical approach, Ch. 2-4 (pp33-96)
Schugurensky, D. (2014) A Social Worker, A Community Development Worker and an Adult Educator walk into a bar: On Strange Bedfellows and Social Pedagogy. New Directions for Higher Education. January 2014

Internet materials:
Participatory methods (www.participatorymethods.org)

Optional reading in English (in materials)
Williams, Charlotte (ed.)(2016): Social Work in the City. Urban Themes in 21st-Century Social Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Melbourne. pp. ss. 1- 150.

Optional reading in Finnish (in materials):
http://Kansalaisnavigointi.metropolia.fi
Piekkari, Jouni: Top Toijala! Osallistava asuinaluehanke. (julkaisematon). in OMA
Piekkari, Jouni: Paikalliset äänet osallistavassa yhteisötyössä. (partly available in English). in OMA

Teaching methods

Activating lectures; workshops; small group presentations, experiments, observation and study diaries, expressive methods, study visits, workshop planning, implementation and evaluation, literature and internet materials.

Employer connections

Collaboration in Myllypuro district of Helsinki with municipal community worker; local communities and networks.

Exam schedules

n/a

International connections

n/a

Completion alternatives

n/a

Student workload

27 hours per credit

Content scheduling

n/a

Further information

During the study module the student will be exposed to a specific area of Helsinki. We will explore the the practice of community work in the area and role and functions of different organisations and the people living in the area. We will explore the possibilities for the future networking and collaboration.

We will explore the urban area from the socio-cultural point of view. The aim is to produce useful information for town planning and networking through a cross-sectional approach.

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.

Assessment methods and criteria

Scale for assessment: 0-5
Final Project Presentation 30%
Reading Reflections 30%
Participation 40%