Course: Social Pedagogy and Social Pathology

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Course title Social Pedagogy and Social Pathology
Course code KPG/XSPSP
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šmelová Eva, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Chudý Štefan, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Education as part of socialization process in contemporary postmodern society. Environment and education, environment typology, roles of environment in education, an analysis of individual basic types of the environment of today (family, school, peer groups, local environment). Compromised development of children and youth personalities in current environment. The situations in life and education, their characteristics and analysis. Critical situations in life and their management, social support. Field work of social educationists, the characteristics and specifics of this work (community work, working with minorities and groups at risk). The specifics of methodology for social pedagogy. Antisocial phenomena analysis and characteristics (bullying, extremism, the fundamentals of aggressive behaviour, vandalism, juvenile behaviour). Crime rate (development, current state). Prostitution (characteristics of the phenomena, state, types, STDs). Suicide rate (characteristics, development and current state, forms and types). Alcoholism, nicotinism (characteristics, current state, consequences). Non-alcoholic addictions (drugs, classification, characteristics of physical and psychological addiction to individual drugs). Other addictions (pathological gambling, workoholism, etc.). The issues of preventing social deviations (types of prevention, forms and methods). The issue of social deviations therapy (characteristics, types, options).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The course will cover issues related to the position of social pedagogy, its objectives, and its major characteristics. Topics that are discussed include education as a part of socialization, the functions of education in the context of a family, peer group, and social group at school, and the development of children's personalities. The course is also devoted to developing practical skills necessary for efficient social intervention. The purpose of the course is to consider the issues of social education in relation to the prevention of pathological phenomena.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

According to dispositions of the guarantor.
Recommended literature
  • BAKOŠOVÁ, Z. (1994). Sociálna pedagogika. Vybrané kapitoly.. Bratislava.
  • HODOVSKÝ, I.; DOPITA, M. (ed.). (2002). Etika a sociální deviace. Olomouc.
  • KLAPILOVÁ, S. (1996). Kapitoly ze sociální pedagogiky. Olomouc.
  • KOMENDA, S. (1999). Sociální deviace. Olomouc.
  • KRAUS, B. (1999). Sociální aspekty výchovy. Hradec Králové.
  • MÜHLPACHR, P. (2001). Sociální patologie. Brno.


Study plans that include the course
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