22902438 - SOCIAL WORK AND RESEARCH

The meetings will provide a theoretical framework that traces the reciprocal relationship between research and social service, from the 1950s to the present day, and students will be given some options for reflection in order to favor a first orientation to the internship course.
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Programme

Course objectives
The workshop aims to introduce students to research topics in social service and provide them with a basic methodological support to the search path to be performed during the internship.

Course description
• relationship between research and social work in Italy from the 50s to today
• how to make a research design
• the identification and construction of instruments (both quantitative and qualitative) for research
• analysis on the findings of the research
The classes will promote the direct participation of students, alternating moments of lectures in active teaching methods such as group work and case studies.

Core Documentation

Examination book:
ALBANO R., DELLAVALLE M. (a cura di), Metodologia della ricerca e servizio sociale, Giappichelli, Torino, 2015

Reference books:
APPETECCHIA E. (a cura di), Servizio sociale e ricerca dal 1945 al 1970, Aracne, Roma, 2008
BICHI R., La conduzione delle interviste nella ricerca sociale, Carocci, Roma, 2007
BIOLCATI-RINALDI F., VEZZONI C., L’analisi secondaria nella ricerca sociale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012
CARDANO M., La ricerca qualitativa, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011
CASELLI M., Indagare col questionario, Vita e pensiero, Milano, 2005
CORBETTA P., Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, Voll. 1-4, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003
OSSICINI CIOLFI T., Ricerca e servizio sociale, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma, 1988

Type of delivery of the course

LESSONS IN PRESENCE

Type of evaluation

The exam is usually written and oral. During the COVID-19 pandemia, in June and July 2020, the exam will be only oral, at the end of the traineeship.

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Programme

Course objectives
The stage aims to make students acquire skills and abilities of field research, which are likely to promote in future graduates the opportunity to understand the complexity of needs and social services from a broader point of view.
Students will have the opportunity to interact with professionals coordinating roles in order to learn and have experience of the importance of planning and social service design, managerial level, in various organizations.



Course description
The research activities in the field of the stage takes place within agencies, organizations and social and health services; in this path, each student should be guided and accompanied, both from a methodological point of view and, more generally, to encourage reworking than experienced, to make the practice becomes genuine experience.
To do this will be finalized the specific activities, trying as much as possible to adapt them to the individual student.
You will use the Internet platform “Gestione di Tirocini Professionali”, already preset for the Stage, in order to create a more streamlined and functional opportunities of communication between student-tutor inner-outer-teacher tutor.



Core Documentation

Reference books
We recommend students to consult, in carrying out research work, a good social research methodology manual; If they don’t have got one, we recommend:

CORBETTA P., Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, Il Mulino, Bologna

Type of delivery of the course

Examination The examination will be oral, and will be the presentation of a report that describes the research path carried out within the stage.

Type of evaluation

The exam is assessed with the suitability Also the teachers will evaluate the papers individually with an alphabetical mark (a-b-c-d) so that a more correct answer to the individual work is given, this evaluation does not affect the average of the marks.