Internship

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

Internship contents focus on the implementation and evaluation of the internship project, inicially developed during the 1st term, supported and supervised by the tutor and the supervisor.
The assessment focuses on all the work and activities done during the internship, i.e., the preparation and execution of all activities, including ongoing or procedural evaluations, and not exclusively on the Internship Final Report-written document.The Tutor of the Host Institution and the Supervisor of ESEC evaluate the activities of the interns, based on previously defined criteria, parameters and weights specified at the Internship Regulation, among these, to factors relating to Internship activities of Preparation, Development and Evaluation of the Project, as well as his/her posture/ Professional Ethics.The evaluation of the Tutor is made explicit in the a proper document: Final Internship Evaluation. Other forms of assessment from the Host Institution Tutor are the informations produced during.

Learning Results

Socioeducative Animation Internship goals are:
1) To developp and reinforce social, personal and professional skills, guiding future Socieducative Animation professionals in their process of building professional experiences, by registering them in good practices in their field of expertise, specifically close to what is their future professional reality;
2) To foster the development of activities that they will be likely to perform, according to the professional identity and profiles established for the degree in Socioeducative Animation;
3) To reinforce skills such as: analysis and understanding of social and educational issues; identification and analysis of individual, group, community and territory needs; designing, implementation and assessment of socioeducative intervention projects.

Program

Internships in Socioeducative Animation consist of the design, implementation and evaluation of socioeducational intervention projects for individuals, groups and local and regional institutions.
Internship components are:
a) The strategic conception of the project, based at a needs assessment;
b) The design of a project whose aims are geared for democratic citizenship and participatory;
c) The definition of project educational and social purposes;
d) The management, coordination and intervention tasks;
e) The definition of public and participants covering various community groups;
f) The development of partnership practices;
g) The organization, guidance and evaluation of monitors;
h) Resources mobilization;
i) The presentation of public activity(s) such as conferences, workshops, seminars, etc.;
j) The development of strategies to enable the continuation of the project;
k) The production of diffusion material of the project;
l) The regulation and evaluation of the project.

Curricular Unit Teachers

Internship(s)

SIM

Bibliography

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Schiefer, U., Bal-Dobel, L., Batista, A., Dobel, R., Nogueira, J., & Teixeira, P. (2006). Manual de planeamento e avaliação de Projectos. Estoril: Princípia.
Schiefer, U., Teixeira, P., & Monteiro, S. (2006). Manual de facilitação para a gestão de eventos e processos participativos. Estoril: Princípia.