Course Details

Innovation and social work workshop A

P1682

Course
Innovation and social work workshop A
Code
P1682
Academic Year
2025/2026
Curriculum Year
2023/2024
Degree Programme
SOCIAL WORK
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
-
Lecturers
Credits
2
Lecture Hours
0
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SPS/07 - General Sociology
Course Type
Single-subject learning activity
Course Delivery
OPZ - Opzionale
Year
3
Teaching period
Secondo Semestre
Campus
ASTI
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
The centrality of minors in the exercise of justice (listening, decoding and adequate of the minor learning of the necessary skills for an adequate exercise of the role with regard to the care of the minor and inside penal processes concerning minors, starting from experiences, narrations, and prefiguration of possible planning). These challenges will be directly linked to the most relevant phenomena; among these, certainly, the role
interpretation of the Social Worker and the dignity of social work regarding the removal of minors from their families, the consequences still deriving from the COVID-19 pandemic, the professional work of the A.S. with unaccompanied foreign minors.
Reference Texts
Lecture notes on the competences and roles of the Juvenile Justice Authorities

Dominelli, L. (2005), Il servizio sociale. Una professione che cambia. Edizioni Erickson. Capitoli 3 e 5. .
Garena G., Pinto L., Innovazione e servizio sociale”: un laboratorio a distanza, bilancio partecipato di una esperienza in zona rossa per Covid-19, in La Rivista di Servizio Sociale, luglio 2021
Garena G., Saccani C., Progettare interventi familiari utili: alcuni nodi e prospettive, in MINORIgiustizia, n.4/2010
Garena G., Tosco L. (2020), Educazione: Cenerentola del welfare al tempo del Covid-19 – Parte 1 e 2, in Riv Welforum, Luglio-Agosto 2020, Milano, Associazione per la ricerca sociale
Garena G., Tosco L. (2020), L’allontanamento dei minori nelle nuove fragilità e povertà educative, in Riv. Prospettive Sociali e Sanitarie, n. 3/2020, Milano, IRS
Garena G., Tosco L. (2020), Nonni in servizio, nonni sulle barricate, Maggioli, Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN), Cap. 4, 5. 6.
Garena G.,Gerbo A.M.(2010), Qualità e accreditamento professionale nei servizi sociali, Maggioli, Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN)
Garena G.,T osco L., Educazione e scuola al tempo del Covid-19, in Riv. Welforum, febbraio 2021
Garena G.,Tosco L., Educazione: Cenerentola del welfare al tempo del Covid-19 – Parte 1a e 2a in Riv. Welforum, settembre 2020
Garena G.,Tosco L., L’allontanamento dei minori nelle nuove fragilità e povertà educative in Riv Prospettive Sociali e Sanitarie, maggio 2020
Mastropasqua I., Mordeglia S. (2011, a cura di), Esperienze di probation in Italia ed Europa, Gangemi, Roma
Moro A.C. (2014), Manuale di diritto minorile, Zanichelli, Bologna
Pinto L. (2020), Il “campo preoccupato”.Il lavoro sociale con i contesti giudiziari, in Prospettive Sociali e Sanitarie, Milano
Raineri M.L., Calcaterra V.(2017), Per un social work antioppressivo. Riconoscere e contrastare le discriminazioni nel lavoro sui casi, in Lavoro sociale, Erickson, Trento
Tomaselli E. (2015), Giustizia e ingiustizia minorile. Tra profonde certezze e ragionevoli dubbi, Angeli, Milano
Learning Outcomes
Orientation of the student in the complexity of protection and accompaniment of the minor and his context. The relationship between Social Service and innovation in anti-oppressive practices.
Teaching Methods
Front lessons, interactions with experiences narrated and done by privileged witnesses, simulations and planning
Additional Information
It is advisable to join the workshop experience with the vision of the following movies
- Il sospetto (The Hunt), T.Vinterberg, Danimarca, 2012
- Il figlio (Le fils), J. & L. Dardenne, Belgio, 2002
- Io, Daniel Blake (I, Daniel Blake), K.Loach, GranBretagna, 2016
- L’affido, una storia di violenza, X. Legrand, Francia, 2017
- Jojo Rabbit (Jojo Rabbit),Taika Waititi, USA, 2019
- Io capitano, Matto Garrone, Italia, 2023
Assessment Methods
To obtain the suitability for the Laboratory, an individual assessment of the path is envisaged which will cover two sides:
- the personal and original reworking of a topic dealt with in the laboratory
- the quality of participation in the various classroom moments
Detailed Syllabus
The Innovation and Social Service Laboratory offers an opportunity to harmonize the contents learned so far (from the teachings of Family Law and Criminal Law, from the first internship experiences) with particular attention to the relationship between Social Service and innovation in anti-oppressive practices.
We will use factsheets on the competences and roles of the Juvenile Justice Authorities, on the laws to guarantee the "pre-eminent interest of the minor".
The Laboratory will face some concrete challenges: the accompaniment of minors and their contexts in both civil and criminal matters; best practices and innovative models; dynamics of power, aggression against operators; the relationship with the error; reflections on recent events regarding the removal of minors from their families
Some important questions will be addressed. Between these:
• what rights are actually guaranteed?
• what is meant by "mild justice?"
• with which strategies is it possible to guarantee the "pre-eminent interest of the child"?
• which innovative methods have recently been tested? with what results?
• How do operators and services manage and govern power dynamics? how can aggression against operators be prevented and dealt with?
•. when and how it is necessary to protect the child from his family and how
• ... when and how to take care of a minor who has committed crimes?
• what kind of collaboration can actually be achieved with the juvenile judiciary?
• rights at risk within challenges contextualized to some of the most relevant phenomena: certainly, the role interpretation of the Social Worker and the dignity of social work regarding the removal of minors from their families, the consequences still deriving from the COVID-19 pandemic, the professional work of the A.S. with unaccompanied foreign minors.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Orientation skills in judicial, social, health, school contexts, ... .. among the various ethical, cultural, regulatory, organizational challenges
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