Department of Social Education (PES/E-SOCI)

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  • 6 credits
  • Lecturer: Mgr. Mariya Gladysh, Ph.D.
  • Time requirements: 2-1-0 hour/week
  • Semester: Winter
  • Language of instruction: English
  • Form of course completion: Credit
  • Level of qualification: Bc., Mgr.
  • Method of completion: Combined

Course objectives:

Students will adopt key definitions (inclusion, social inclusion, social exclusion, vulnerable categories of people, discrimination, special needs, etc.). Students will by able to master the theoretical and methodological, regulatory and organizational and methodological foundations of inclusive processes in society; search for the necessary regulatory documents for the organization of inclusive processes.

Requirements on student:

90% attendance, active participation in lectures and application new knowledge in a group, tests in Moodle.

Content:

  1. Social exclusion: causes and forms in modern society.
  2. Dimensions of social inclusion and exclusion
  3. Key areas of social integration and exclusion
  4. Gender equality and gender discrimination.
  5. Ageism
  6. Discrimination against the unemployed
  7. Social inclusion of people with disabilities
  8. Inclusive education
  9. Social inclusion of internally and externally displaced persons
  10. Social inclusion of national, ethnic and religious minorities

Literature:

Atkinson, A. B., 1998, 'Social Exclusion, Poverty and Unemployment' in Hills, J. (ed.) Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, pp 1-20.

Discrimination and Intolerance. Council of Europe. https://www.coe.int/uk/web/compass/discrimination-and-intolerance Duvnjak, A. and Harris, P., 2019. Social inclusion in a ‘risk society’: Identifying the barriers and facilitators of inclusion across different communities and contexts. Journal of Social Inclusion, 10(2), pp.1–3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.36251/josi.183

Harris, P. and Sawrikar, P., 2020. Challenges to social inclusion are being illuminated in the era of social distancing. Journal of Social Inclusion, 11(1), pp.1–4. DOI: http://doi.org/10.36251/josi.195

Oudshoorn, A., Van Berkum, A. and Van Loon, C., 2018. A History of Women’s Homelessness: The Making of a Crisis. Journal of Social Inclusion, 9(1), pp.5–20. DOI: http://doi.org/10.36251/josi.128

Social Exclusion and Policies of Inclusion (2022). Publisher: Springer Singapore. 318 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9773-9

Teaching methods:

  • Group work
  • Presentation
  • Reflection tasks
  • Discussion
  • Skill- practical methods

Assessment methods:

  • Continuous analysis of student performance
  • Critical thinking
  • Verbal evaluation
  • Systematic and long-term student evaluation
  • Credit

Learning outcomes:

  • Knowledge of principles and techniques of inclusive processes in society
  • Ability to work with regulatory documents for the organization of inclusive processes
  • Ability of self-reflection
  • Ability to present the prepared activity

Updated: 03. 10. 2022