Informe i confidencialitat en Educació Social

L"article realitza un recorregut per algunes pràctiques (els informes) dels i les educadores socials, revisant la confidencialitat i el respecte a la informació sobre les persones a què accedeixen aquests professionals, analitzant el codi deontològic, etc. Es reflexiona sobre si no caldria crear un nou instrument propi: l"informe socioeducatiu. I es revisen algunes de les característiques que hauria de tenir. S"aporten algunes propostes d"autoregulació per una maneig"respectuós" de la informació i la confidencialitat i s"ofereixen exemples de bones pràctiques.

El perfil del emprendedor social del estudiantado de los Grados de Educación Social, Pedagogía y Trabajo Social en la Universidad de Barcelona

En el contexto de crisis actual, cada vez, se presta más atención a un tipo de economía sostenible y con valores sociales, y la Universidad debe reconocer su responsabilidad ante estos nuevos retos. Durante los cursos académicos comprendidos entre 2010 y 2012, y con el apoyo económico del proyecto REDICE 2010, se han analizado e identificado las necesidades formativas del perfil de emprendedor social en relación con el alumnado de la Facultad de Pedagogía, y se ha ido introduciendo el concepto de"Emprendeduría Social" en los Grados de Educación Social, Pedagogía y Trabajo Social a través de buenas prácticas que forman perfiles universitarios creativos e innovadores para el emprendimiento social. El resultado de este análisis muestra un interés por la emprendeduría social y por definir unas necesidades académicas para mejorar nuestra actividad docente, buscando buenas prácticas identificadas con esta línea para mejorar la formación y docencia en relación con la emprendeduría social.

El Primer Encuentro de Educadores Especializados 'Faustino Guerau de Arellano' y su papel en la cristalización de la Educación Social

Los años comprendidos entre 1987 y 1991 fueron intensos y estuvieron repletos de actos que significaron el inicio de recorridos que conducirían a la concreción de lo que después acabaría configurando la profesión de la Educación Social tal y cómo ahora la conocemos. Paciano Fermoso ha definido este tiempo como la etapa de consolidación de la Pedagogía social. Uno de los primeros desencadenantes de ese intenso proceso de maduración social podría considerarse que fue este"primer encuentro". Por lo menos en lo que a la Educación Especializada se refiere. Celebrado en mayo de 1987 en Barcelona, sirvió además para recordar la figura de Faustino Guerau de Arellano, fallecido en noviembre de 1986, uniendo su nombre a este fructífero evento. Este pequeño artículo, que además del componente de rescate y de balance a más de 25 años vista de ese momento y de su proyección histórica tiene también un cierto carácter vindicativo, quiere recordar sus objetivos, su desarrollo, su significado, los elementos más interesantes de los discursos e interpelaciones que generó y de las relaciones y consecuencias sociales que posibilitó. Pero también, hacer un pequeño homenaje a las educadoras y educadores que altruísticamente lo hicieron posible.

Anàlisi de la figura de l'educador social en el centre d'acollida: l'aplicació dels bons tractes en infants que han patit situacions de maltractament i negligència

Treball que pretén analitzar i conèixer quin és el rol que ha de desenvolupar un educador social en un centre d’acollida per fer un bon acompanyament als nens que estan al centre. És a dir, entendre com pot aplicar els bons tractes un educador a un nen maltractat que ha ingressat en un centre d’acollida

O pedagogo como agente de transformação social para além dos muros escolares

This thesis concerns the problem about the pedagogue actuation in the social education into no scholars places. It search to understand the context and the social pedagogue role to his praxis and formation that enlarger the possibilities of the social educative practices into no scholars places. In this direction, we developed an investigation about the actuation of the pedagogues-educators in Natal city, in the 2007-2010 periods, into Municipal Secretary of the Labor and Social Assistance (SEMTAS). Considering that pedagogues are regularly attached in social educators profession as municipals public employees, we re the objective to evaluate their role into the social executed in the no scholars places, with the focus in the environmental dimensions of theirs work s places, pedagogical organization, institutional management and the professional formation. It privileged in this research the Specialized Reference Center of Social Assistance II (CREAS II), the Passages Houses I, II and III, the Social-Educative Measures in Open Environment Execution Program of Natal city (PENSEMA) and the Pitimbú Educational Center (CEDUC-Pitimbú). To realize this study it developed a research with qualitative nature by critic ethnography approach privileging those information collected with the social pedagogue-educators of the mentioned places. Through the methodological procedures adopted; beyond the bibliographical review we remarked the documental research, the semi-structured interview, the questionnaires-routes and the field observations. The analytical results revealed that the politics to the social education in Brazil historically came been dimensioned by the fight of social movements demanding the fundamental rights to the excluded people; that the SEMTAS politics of social education present a relative basic social protection to the excluded children and young people specially into law view; that the politics of social education in Natal city it s close of the logic of sanitarian attention about the disadvantaged groups; that the conceptual, methodological and formatives fragilities needs to the social pedagogues-educators praxis into non scholars places made difficult the operation capacity of a educative proposition anchored in a institutional action guided by the idea of emancipator education; that the SEMTAS take face several difficulties to developed a web assistance as preview in the reception proposition elaborated by the social pedagogues-educators. However in despite the tensions we remarked the value of this potentiality to the non scholar social education in her attempt to constitute herself in a legitimate space to the pedagogue professional actuation. In despite the obstacles to work and formation quotidian, across those non scholar spaces in the municipalities institutes to the social politics, it demonstrated personal sensibility and professional creativity in learning mediations and educative action to the children and younger derived from exclusion process and the social iniquities

The health care needs of UK pensioners living in Spain: an agenda for research

There is a growing interest in learning how older migrants adapt to their new country of residence, in understanding their motivations for migration and the factors that influence international retirement migration patterns. However, there has been little research into the health and health care needs of international migrants retiring to other countries. This paper presents findings on health status and utilisation of health services with a particular focus on UK pensioners retiring to Spain. Future research should focus on the health needs of pensioners and their perspectives as to whether and how these health needs are met.

Linking tourism, retirement migration and social capital

A general trend in the study of international retirement migration has been the increased attention paid to the social contacts and network connections of the migrants in both the destination and the origin areas. These studies have examined the extent to which migrants build social relationships with their neighbours and the host society while also maintaining social links with their countries of origin, addressing the central role that leisure travel plays in sustaining increasingly dispersed social networks and maintaining the social capital of these networks and of the individuals involved in them. Using a case study approach to examine British retirement migration to Spain, we explore the relevance of transnational social networks in the context of international retirement migration, particularly the intensity of bidirectional visiting friends and relatives (VFR) tourism flows and the migrants’ social contacts with friends and/or family back in their home country. Building on the concept of social capital and Putnam's distinction between bonding and bridging social capital, we propose a framework for the analysis of the migrants’ international social networks. The results of a study conducted based on a sample of 365 British retirees living in the coast of Alicante (Spain) show both the strength of the retirees’ international bonding social capital and the role of ‘VFR's travel and communication technologies in sustaining the migrants’ transnational social practices and, ultimately, their international bonding social capital. It also provides evidence for the reinforcing links between tourism-related mobility and amenity-seeking migration in later life.

Crisis and Welfare Society in Spain

Some arguments are briefly presented about the negative consequences of the deep global economic and financial crisis of 2008 on the economic activity and the social situation in Spain. Reformulation, sustainability and financial viability of social welfare in Spain require a new management through resource efficiency, increasing market presence and initiative of stakeholders as a whole. In this sense, the main credible argument of the welfare social in Spain depends on a new perspective on socialization and generosity of social protection system. Specifically, the solution to the crisis must come through economic growth, increased productivity, employment and competitiveness and not by the way of increasing levels of social protection.

La educación social como instrumento para la equidad social y la calidad del sistema educativo. Estudio centrado en la etapa de la E.S.O.

The thesis presented here responds to the title of Social education as a tool for social equity and quality of education. This thesis is focused in E.S.O, which aims to reveal and expose a globalized mode of professional experience living for a significant number of teachers and social educators in our educational system. analyze and demonstrate the administrative and educational approach through studies categories for which you can catalog the educational reality experienced by educators in schools, check if the context of the practice of social education is given in the best conditions in the education system, identify the influence of social education as a platform of educational intervention to mitigate the possibilities of failure in school that is present through three Autonomous Communities (Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalucia) being distributed in a significant number of high schools and several private-subsidized schools Sponsored by religious institutions in the autonomous communities of Madrid and the Canary Islands and schools belonging to religious and social foundations based in Madrid in addition of several municipalities and nonprofit entities with public and private funds that have opted for a differentiated integrate social education in their respective schools of compulsory secondary education...

Student’s Perceptions of the Community Impact of Social Education Degree Internship

Evaluating the impact of an intervention is a very important stage in social educators’ practice, since it allows them to improve the quality of socio-educational projects. The aim of this study is to rethink the internship of the social education degree through students’ perceptions about the impact of their projects in the community. This is a qualitative and exploratory study using documental analysis of 50 internship final reports of a social education degree from a Portuguese polytechnic higher education institution and whose emerging categorical content analysis was performed with NVivo software. The analysis revealed four distinct indicators linked to the project (accomplished objectives, evaluation of activities, sustainability and innovation), the target group (participation, motivation and benefits), the institution (satisfaction of collaborators, improved dynamic, routines and space enhancements), and the students (relational, reflexive and planning skills; satisfaction). It also revealed instruments, feedback, observation, document analysis and case reports as means of verification. The use of indicators related to the project’s objectives, the changes perceived from the benefits in the target-group and in the institution, and the interveners’ level of satisfaction should be noted as positive. Given the inconsistency in the use of formal assessment instruments, the results show the need to strengthen students’ mobilisation of project assessment skills in order to improve the quality of undergraduate education.

Undergraduate Social Education Student’s Perspectives about the Profession

Higher education institutions, responsible for training social educators, should ensure the construction of a profile marked by their technical versatility and whose socio-educational intervention is directed at all people, regardless of their situations in life. Reflection on the construction of this profile is fundamental given the difficulties of identity that the profession faces. In this context, we sought to develop a study which would allow us to identify how the students of a degree course in Social Education characterise this professional, in order to reflect on the contribution of training provided by the institution concerned and, if necessary, make the adjustments arising from the results. This is a qualitative, exploratory study, using an unstructured questionnaire applied to a convenience sample of 140 Portuguese students of the three years of a degree course in Social Education. Its emerging categorical content analysis was performed using the NVivo software, version 11. The main results point to a broad vision of the profession and are not limited to the work geared to specific populations or issues, valuing the relevance of the professional in the field of non-assistance socio-educational intervention. The main area of overlap between training objectives and students’ perceptions about practice allows the impact of training to be positively assessed, despite possible curricular adjustments resulting from further analysis, including the need to reinforce community intervention, undervalued by students, even though it plays a key role for social educators.

Educação social e relação de ajuda: Representações dos educadores sociais sbre as suas práticas

Neste estudo, parte-se dos discursos dos educadores sociais, produzidos no grupo de discussão, para se conhecer as suas representações face à relação de ajuda que desenvolvem com as populações. Problematizou-se o conceito, analisaram-se os discursos buscando os paradigmas que orientam as intervenções, as definições de relação de ajuda, os seus objectivos, e o perfil dos educadores sociais que desenvolvem esta modalidade de intervenção. As conclusões apontam para a necessidade de a reflexão acompanhar a acção do educador social; para a coexistência de diferentes concepções sobre a relação de ajuda, variando de acordo com as orientações paradigmáticas do educador, a sua própria experiência profissional, o eu perfil pessoal e profissional. Surge reforçada a ideia de que é na relação teoria-prática que se vão configurando as práticas de intervenção, adequando-as aos sujeitos com quem se desenvolvem e activando processos internos, ao nível das capacidades e competências, pessoais e interpessoais, dos educadores sociais. /ABSTRACT: The starting point in this study is the social educators' speeches produced in the discussion group, to let us know how they view the helping relationship they develop with the populations. The concept was held as a problem needing clarification, and the speeches were analysed with a view to making understandable the paradigms, the objectives and the definitions of the helping relationship that guide their interventions; the profiles of the professionals in the group that develop this modality of intervention were also analysed. The conclusions point to the need of reflection going along with the social educator's acting. They also point to the presence in the group of different conceptions of the helping relationship, varying with the educator's paradigmatic orientation, her/his own professional experience, her/his personal and professional profile. One strong idea emerges: the intervention practices get their configuration in the relation theory-practice, in the process of making them adequate to the subjects with whom they are developed, and also because they activate the social educators' internal processes, at the level of capacities and competences, both personal and interpersonal.

Quando o palco é parte da realidade O Sociodrama na formação dos Educadores Sociais.

A dimensão pessoal na formação do Educador Social assume-se como crucial ao influenciar a forma como este lê e analisa a realidade social e, consequentemente, a intervenção que desenvolve. Neste sentido, a metodologia sociodramática pode desempenhar um papel de grande importância ao permitir que este profissional desenvolva o conhecimento acerca de si próprio, a consciencialização dos fenómenos afetivos e grupais bem como a espontaneidade e criatividade, decisivas para uma intervenção capaz de responder aos grandes desafios que enfrenta diariamente. Partindo dos diários de bordo de Educadores Sociais em formação são aqui discutidas as mais-valias desta metodologia na sua formação.

Do Spirituality and Faith Make a Difference? Report from the Southern European Psycho-Oncology Study Group

OBJECTIVE: In the last decade, some attention has been given to spirituality and faith and their role in cancer patients' coping. Few data are available about spirituality among cancer patients in Southern European countries, which have a big tradition of spirituality, namely, the Catholic religion. As part of a more general investigation (Southern European Psycho-Oncology Study--SEPOS), the aim of this study was to examine the effect of spirituality in molding psychosocial implications in Southern European cancer patients. METHOD: A convenience sample of 323 outpatients with a diagnosis of cancer between 6 to 18 months, a good performance status (Karnofsky Performance Status > 80), and no cognitive deficits or central nervous system (CNS) involvement by disease were approached in university and affiliated cancer centers in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland (Italian speaking area). Each patient was evaluated for spirituality (Visual Analog Scale 0-10), psychological morbidity (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale--HADS), coping strategies (Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer--Mini-MAC) and concerns about illness (Cancer Worries Inventory--CWI). RESULTS. The majority of patients (79.3%) referred to being supported by their spirituality/faith throughout their illness. Significant differences were found between the spirituality and non-spirituality groups (p ≤ 0.01) in terms of education, coping styles, and psychological morbidity. Spirituality was significantly correlated with fighting spirit (r = -0.27), fatalism (r = 0.50), and avoidance (r = 0.23) coping styles and negatively correlated with education (r = -0.25), depression (r = -0.22) and HAD total (r = -0.17). SIGNIFICANCE OF RESULTS: Spirituality is frequent among Southern European cancer patients with lower education and seems to play some protective role towards psychological morbidity, specifically depression. Further studies should examine this trend in Southern European cancer patients.

Lutar por uma vida melhor

O presente trabalho pretende dar conta do projecto de investigação e intervenção social desenvolvido com uma família acompanhada no âmbito do Rendimento Social de Inserção (RSI). Parte, em termos teóricos, da complexidade e variabilidade do trabalho social, considerando as suas diferentes visões e a sua construção social, destacando a existência de diferentes forças que constroem e influenciam a acção psicossocial. Enfatiza, em função das fragilidades do modelo tradicional de intervenção, a necessidade dos profissionais repensarem e qualificarem as suas intervenções e, ainda, a importância do modelo de relação de ajuda e da abordagem sistémica no desenvolvimento do trabalho psicossocial e educativo desenvolvido pelos educadores sociais. O projecto desenvolvido assenta no paradigma emergente, constituindo uma investigação qualitativa, orientada por uma metodologia de investigação-acção participativa. Estas opções metodológicas permitiram o desenvolvimento de um trabalho plenamente cooperativo, que partiu dos seus participantes, das suas circunstâncias reais, ou seja, dos problemas concretos da família, numa lógica de aproximação entre saberes. Foi desenvolvido com a finalidade de promover a melhoria da qualidade de vida da família, nomeadamente ao nível da habitação, educação e relações familiares e permitiu, em linhas gerais, que a família adquirisse maior poder de decisão sobre a sua vida, expectativas mais positivas relativamente ao futuro, interacções familiares mais positivas e uma crescente consciência da importância de um maior envolvimento e empenho nas questões relacionadas com a escola e com as aprendizagens escolares.