Introduction: Social sustainability is deeply connected to the well-being of marginalized groups, and it is important to highlight how mental health impacts the social inclusion of homeless individuals, particularly veterans. Homelessness is a growing global issue, disproportionately affecting U.S. veterans, with mental health challenges playing a significant role in its onset and perpetuation. Purpose: This st...
Higher education institutions have been investing in teachers’ professional development and pedagogical innovation, on the one hand, aiming to promote the quality of institutions and, on the other hand, aiming to promote students’ personal and academic development. One of the methodologies that has received particular attention is service-learning, which aims to promote students’ learning by providing a service...
A truth that we often forget and should repeat, verbalizing it so that we become aware of it, is that man is made for peace, not war. Without peace, the world becomes inhuman. The path to peace is a dialog that makes a friend of the stranger a different one. The world is currently going through challenging times caused by nationalist, ethnic, and sometimes religious identity conflicts. Identity should be an opp...
O mundo complexo de hoje é confrontado com diferentes paradoxos e inexplicabilidades, gerando um tempo marcado pela insegurança, imprevisibilidade, fragmentação e incerteza (Arendt, 2001; Latour, 2021; Han, 2014; Stiglitz, 2013), mas também de profunda transformação (Lipovetsky & Serroy, 2010; Schwab, 2017). Neste quadro globalista surgem novas tensões e contradições culturais da época colocando desafios a dife...
Teaching in higher education is a complex task, not only considering the societal challenges we live in but also some constraints of global agendas of performativity and quality assurance. These trends tend to create some normalization of the curriculums and teaching practices. Particularly, considering highly differentiated institutions such as the Society of Jesus Higher Education, directed by Ignatian Pedago...
Intervenção Social. ISSN 0874-1611. N. 57-58 (2021).; O trabalho que apresentamos resulta da investigação qualitativa sobre o impacto do encerramento dos Centros de Dia na vida dos utentes no atual contexto pandémico. Com a chegada do SARS-CoV-2, vários organismos e instituições foram obrigados a adaptar-se a novas circunstâncias de risco social. Os dados recolhidos revelaram que todos os entrevistados vivencia...
The work we propose is part of the subject “Effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on long-term care” and results from a research in progress, where on the first phase of the investigation, exploratory interviews were made with ten nursing home technical coordinators, which are privileged informants by their knowledge of the economic impact of Covid-19 on the sustainability of social sector institutions (all approache...
Neste relato dá-se a conhecer uma experiência educativa no âmbito da UC de Serviço Social Contemporâneo III (SSC III) da UCP que utilizou metodologias de ensino-aprendizagem colaborativas sobre os ODSo.; In this report, is presented an educational experience in the curricular unit “Contemporary Social Work III” of UCP, using collaborative teaching-learning methodologies on the SDGs.
A presente investigação, tem como objeto central da pesquisa, analisar as principais dinâmicas de vulnerabilização que afetam a classe média, procurando-se compreender designadamente as dimensões relacionadas com a crise económica, quebra de rendimentos, processos de desagregação e rutura familiar, desqualificação social e sofrimento social. Este trabalho baseou-se, como um dos principais eixos teóricos de pesq...