COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MEDIATION

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

COMES18

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT FOR WELFARE

Disciplinary Sector:

SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SPERANZA SABRINA

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

114

Prerequisites:

No specific knowledge and skills are required and no prerequisites are required.

Objectives

The teaching provides advanced knowledge of one of the possible areas of intervention for the specialist social worker, in particular of communication as a process of generating and resolving re-generation of conflicting relational structures and mediation as a further professional tool for diagnosing complex social needs. (family, school, community, justice) and intervention in their specific conditions (separation-divorce, violence and abuse, adolescence, peer group and bullying, juvenile criminal offenses, urban insecurity, multicultural integration).

Knowledge and ability to understand
At the end of the course, the student must know:
- theory and research in Sociology of the conflict;
- theory and research in Sociology of interpersonal cultural and communicative processes;
- communication as a mediation;
- social mediation;
- national and international configuration of social mediation;
- family mediation;
- national and international configuration of family mediation;
- current topics and future orientations of social and family mediation.

Autonomy of judgment
At the end of the course the student must be able to recognize the communicative origin of the conflicts and and the cases in which mediation can be applied.

Communication skills
At the end of the course the student must know how to use the sociological language of conflict, of communication and the technical language of social mediation.

Contents

Communication as a process of generating and resolving re-generation of conflicting relational structures and mediation as a further professional tool for diagnosis and intervention on complex social needs of family, school, community and justice.

Extended Syllabus

- Macro and micro sociology of conflict.
- Communicative dimension in the origin and in the resolution of conflicts.
- Pragmatics of interpersonal communication.
- ADR: the area of alternative resolution of conflicts and disputes.
- Civil and commercial mediation.
- Social mediation (family, school, community, juvenile, cultural).
- International and national documents and normative acts of prodromal push to the affirmation of social mediation.
- Paradigms, methods and interventions of social mediation.
- Family mediation: models and operational strategies.
- Language and communication in family mediation.
- International, national and regional documents and normative acts on family mediation.
- Training, access and exercise of the profession of family mediator.
- Future orientations of social mediation, national and international family (designs and proposals of law, harmonization of legal systems, standardization of training, family mediation and new technologies).

Recommended Bibliography

1) L. Parkinson (2013), Family mediation. Models and operational strategies, Trento: Erikson.

2) A text of your choice:
- D. Bramanti (2008), Sociology of Mediation. Theories and practices of community mediation, FrancoAngeli, Milan.
- P. E. Balboni, F. Caon (2015), Intercultural Communication, Marsilio, Venice.
- G. Lazzarini, T. Stobbione (edited by) (2017), Mediating between cultures. The role of the intercultural mediator between social inclusion and the promotion of diversity, FrancoAngeli, Milan.
- R. Ardone, A. C. Baldry (2003), Mediation of conflicts at school. Theoretical assumptions and psychosocial intervention, Carocci, Rome.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The course consists of 36 hours of lessons in the classroom.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Learning will be verified through an oral exam. The score ranges from 1 to 30 with honors, according to the following: 1-17 insufficient, 18 -21 sufficent, 22-24 discrete, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with excellent praise.
The examination procedures are the same for attending and non-attending students.

Contacts/More Information

Please note that, for the academic year 2019/2020, in order to prepare for the exam, the second reference text "chosen by the Student" foreseen by the program must be replaced with the dispensation of the documents and contents analyzed in class. The dispensation will be available at the end of the course and available as part of the last lesson and at the lecturer's office (Literature and Philosophy Building, Level II - IV corridor).

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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