Unit Participatory policies and narrative practices
- Course
- Social policies and social work
- Study-unit Code
- A003198
- Curriculum
- Progettazione delle politiche sociali
- Teacher
- Alessandra Valastro
- Teachers
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- Alessandra Valastro
- Hours
- 63 ore - Alessandra Valastro
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline giuridiche
- Academic discipline
- IUS/09
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course analyzes the theoretical profiles, the applicative institutes and the practices of the political-juridical model of participatory democracy. Starting from the constitutional basis of the principle of participation and the configuration of participation rights, the problems inherent to the discipline of participation and its conditions, the community indications and the laws in force at national, regional, local level are examined. Finally, some of the main methodologies and techniques for constructing participatory processes are illustrated, both in their operating modes and in application practices, with case analyzes.
Furthermore, the classic themes and institutions of political participation are integrated with the theme of narration and the story of experiences: in this perspective, the political and participatory repercussions of autobiographical writing are studied. Alongside the analysis of autobiographical texts chosen on the basis of some major themes of the governing policies of lives (class struggle, resistance, exile and immigration, disease, marginalization, urban decay, etc.), in the course there is also a workshop part in which moments of writing in the first person by the students are promoted. The integration of narrative practices in the construction processes of participatory policies allows to experiment with innovative methodologies, in terms of listening, community building, co-planning, cooperation. - Reference texts
- Given the highly experimental nature of the course, the exam texts are indicated during the course and partly agreed with the students, also in light of the themes chosen for the laboratory activities
- Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide theoretical and practical knowledge of the main aspects of the participatory democracy model, and its relationship with the models of representative democracy and direct democracy.
This also in light of the most recent and innovative methodologies that use the narrative method to share the experiences, the community biographies and the autobiographical writing to facilitate forms of collaboration and co-planning of policies. - Prerequisites
- Knowledge of public law institutions or basic constitutional law
- Teaching methods
- Frontal teaching, laboratory activities, in-depth seminars with external guests.
- Other information
- alessandra@valastro@unipg.it
- Learning verification modality
- The verification of learning will take place, in addition to the laboratory activity (for attending students), in oral form in the exam sessions.
- Extended program
- - Introduction. Public powers, decision-making processes and participation in times of crisis and fragility
- Participatory democracy: a universe of ever new practices
- Constitutional basis of the participation principle. Starting afresh from sovereignty
- Participation and rights, between sovereignty and citizenship
- The legal perspective. Participation as a method of decision-making processes: the reasons and the
obstacles to its regulation
- The discipline of participation: normative competences, essential levels, principles and criteria.
Procedural participation and organic participation
- Discipline of consultation and public debate at national level
- The regulation of participation at the regional level
- Local regulation of participation and role of the Municipalities
- Horizontal subsidiarity, shared administration, common goods
- Regulations on the shared care of common goods and collaboration agreements
- From participation in the "presence" in practiced sovereignty. Emotions and experience in the affairs of sovereignty
- Sovereignty as a tale. The participatory implications of sharing experiences
- The narrative processes and the political value of the biographical and autobiographical story.
- The normative quality of narrative practices and the surveillance function on the functioning of democracy
- Other languages and other interpretations of social reality
WORKSHOP ACTIVITY: Stories of social democracy. Building citizenship through autobiographical writing
ROUTES for RETURN of ACTIVITIES, DISCUSSION AND COURSE CONCLUSION