Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand, thoroughly and critically, the basic theoretical frameworks on social transitions and innovations.
• Analyse social, political and economic change.
• Analyse social experiment processes.
• Mobilise the relevant analytical approaches and the appropriate methodological tools to analyse, rigorously, thoroughly and comparatively, the problems of social transitions and innovations, including their interactions and their spatial and temporal evolutions.
• Understand the changes specific to transitions and social innovations.
• Develop an interdisciplinary and multiscale approach that integrates complementary disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology and education, urban planning and architecture, geography, and history, in order to analyse transitions and put them into context.
• In an interdisciplinary framework, analyse social transitions by applying acquired knowledge of social sciences and put them into context.
• Articulate reflection, research and action in order to design and carry out an innovative research project.
• Collect data, analyse it qualitatively and quantitatively, and interpret the results adequately, taking into account the field in which the research has been developed.
• Intervene appropriately in concrete problems regarding transition, among other things, by developing answers and action plans from the creativity of local actors.
• Apply acquired skills in professional contexts of social transitions and innovations.
• Take a critical and ethical approach regarding the challenges of societal transitions of the 21st century and raise awareness among society and within politics.
• Refer to ethical principles by implementing innovative solutions for social and political actors.
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) with the different audiences concerned by issues of societal transitions.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Students will explore psychological sufferings from social origin, their expression on the social link and innovative forms of intervention from recent researches carried out in France, in Brussels and in the region of Hainaut.  

-        Comprehending the theoretical concepts and stakes linked to the teaching methods of social action, to the community development and to groups with specific needs ;  
-        Identifying and assessing the needs, the risk and protection factors of people with special needs;
-        Starting a field work with participatory purposes for the key actors ;  
-        Identifying innovative practices and forms of intervention, adapted to personal experiences and to social contexts.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

-        Risk behaviors in a social context: meaning, lifestyles and regulation trajectories.  

-        Psychosocial vulnerabilities and innovative forms of intervention (proximity, risk reduction, care, experts by experience, peer helpers.)  

-        " Adolescences en exil " (" Adolescences in exile "). Work on exile and cultural mixes in relegation neighbourhoods and schools. Meaning of young people groupings and gender tensions. Education for practices.  

-          " Débrouilles des familles " (The art of making do of families ". Changes in modern families living in precarious conditions. Social supports in the social and professional network.

Prior Experience

Not applicable