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Lecturer(s)
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Thelenová Kateřina, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Jihlavec Jan, Mgr. DiS.
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Course content
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Lectures: 1. Social innovations - basic terminology, the meaning of realizing and studying social innovations. New solutions of long term social problems. Unused opportunities. 2. Social innovations results - qualitative change of the social agents lives, lives of communities, society. Social innovations in the non-profit sector. Innovations for saving public money. 3. Impact - the main category of social innovations. Impact as a measurable quantity of social interventions. Stakeholders and finance in social innovations. 4. International inspirations. Traditional support of social innovations in Great Britain, the role of innovations in the process of social integration. 5. Evaluation - form of action research in social work. Applied social work research as basis for evaluation. 6. The ways of evaluation, team and team communication. Instant effect of evaluation on the quality of social intervention. Practical demands of social work. 7. Evaluation in social services as a mean of quality management and supportive mean for the competitiveness of social service in the region. Seminars: 1. Typical system social problems and environmental issues as task for social innovations. Practical example - a family with a child with disability - empowerment. 2. The way to replicate social innovations and to maintain it. 3. Stakeholders´ interests. Creating the potential of communities. 4. Reflecting social innovations e.g. in Great Britain. Reviewing last 5 years of innovation. 5. Designing evaluation research. Typical design. The example of evaluating social impact of an innovation. 6. Methods and techniques of gathering the data. Validating the data and application of the data in the process of social intervention. 7. Ways of using evaluation research to measure the impact of social innovation. Examples of evaluation research.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing), Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments), Active metods (simulation, situational contingency methods, drama,acting, namagerial acting ), Group consultation, Students' portfolio
- Presentation preparation (report)
- 62 hours per semester
- Class attendance
- 28 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The goal of the discipline is to describe the mutual relationship between the social innovations and social evaluation as a tool of proving the impact of social innovation in the field of social problems.
The goal of the discipline is to describe the mutual relationship between the social innovations and social evaluation as a tool of proving the impact of social innovation in the field of social problems.
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Prerequisites
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Social issues and consecutive knowledge gained through the educational background.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student's performance analysis, Presentation of group work
Students work out a design of a social innovation and present it during the exam.
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Recommended literature
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BUREŠ, V. Systémové myšlení a teorie systémů. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2007. ISBN 80-7041-537-5.
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HOLASOVÁ MALÍK, V. Kvalita v sociálních službách. Praha: Grada, 2014. ISBN 978-80-2479-102-9.
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KADEŘÁBKOVÁ, A. Sociální inovace. [Online].. Prezentace na Workshop Sociální inovace, 2013. ISBN bez ISBN.
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MATOUŠEK, O., KŘIŠŤAN, A. Encyklopedie sociální práce. Praha: Portál, 2013. ISBN 978-80-2620-366-7.
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