The Impact of Changes in Social Security on Everyday Life (5 ECTS)
Code: SX00DL74-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 03.05.2021 - 27.05.2021
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.08.2021 - 31.12.2021
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 ECTS
- Virtual portion
- 4 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus and online
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 32 - 32
- Degree programmes
- Social Services
- Teachers
- Katja Ihamäki
- Course
- SX00DL74
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
Teaching in zoom and networking in moodle.
Assignments in moodle.
Exam in Oma
Location and time
In the zoom, visit and moodle.
Learning materials and recommended literature
Exam litterature:
- 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/10024/161612Social Policy in challenging times. Economic crisis and welfare systems. Eds. Kevin Farnsworth ja Zoë Irving. The Polity Press. 2011.
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 in the zoom and exam in Oma. (14 h)
Network (teaching material in moodle) and assignments 81 h
Exam in Oma (in net) 40 h
Further information for students
The key to Moodle
Teaching in zoom and networking, assignments in Moodle:
Lecturer Katja Ihamäki
Schedule
Wed 1.9. at 12.45-16.
Wed 15.9. at 12.45-16.
Thu 7.10. at 12.45-16. Presentations
Mon 8.11. at 12.45-14.15 Exam in Oma
Assessment methods and criteria
Teaching in zoom, teaching material and assignments n moodle and literature:
Exam in Moodle: teaching in zoom and 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
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.