USESED061 Social Inclusion and Minorities in Europe

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. et PhDr. Martin Kaleja, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. et PhDr. Martin Kaleja, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. et PhDr. Martin Kaleja, Ph.D.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The content of the course offers a deeper theoretical background at the level of respective grade in education which is related to contemporary and generally valid social tendencies in the field of Central and Eastern Europe which belongs to the key questions of social inclusivity. This touches the aimed active support in the elementary areas of quality of life of people from minorities, which are imminently at risk of social exclusion, or they are already socially excluded. The attention is paid to objectively critical, analytic-semantic and comparative approach to political aspect of so called the Copenhagen criteria in the frame of territorially determined and strategically or conceptually concept of social inclusivity of the target groups which primarily belong to a minority. The connecting line of the individual units of the course is denotation and connotation theoretical determination and sociological interpretation of the phenomenon of social inclusivity. It follows the already gained knowledge, skills and respective competences gained by passing the bachelor´s study.
Syllabus
  • 1. Social inclusivity as a social problem in the area of Central and Eastern Europe
    2. Issue of social diversification of minorities, classification and their interpretation criteria
    3. Socio-historical connections to minorities in the area of Central and Eastern Europe
    4. Principal legislative frame of national and supranational level regulating the questions of social inclusivity
    5. Concealed and obvious factors of social exclusion of minorities in the area of Central and Eastern Europe
    6. Internal impacts of social exclusion of the minorities in the area of Central and Eastern Europe in the selected fields of social inclusivity: education, employment, living and social services
    7. External impacts of social exclusion of the minorities in the area of Central and Eastern Europe on the selected fields of social inclusivity: education, employment, living and social services
    8. Strategic and conceptual documents taking into consideration political aspects of so called the Copenhagen criteria with emphasis on minorities in the area of Central and Eastern Europe
    9. Confrontation of strategic and conceptual documents in the intentions of national and supranational perspective
    10. Revision of the curriculum
Literature
    required literature
  • KOLEKTIV AUTORŮ. Menšiny a marginalizované skupiny v České republice. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. ISBN 80-86251-13-6. info
  • PETRÁŠ, René; PETRŮV, Helena; SCHEU, Harald C. Menšiny a právo v České republice. Praha: Auditorium. ISBN 978-80-8728-400-1. info
  • MAREŠ, Miroslav. Etnické menšiny a česká politika: analýza stranických přístupů k etnické a imigrační politice po roce 1989. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2004. ISBN 80-7325-050-0. info
  • KOLEKTIV AUTORŮ. Menšiny a migranti v České republice: [my a oni v multikulturní společnosti 21. století]. Praha: Portál, 2001. ISBN 80-7178-648-9. info
  • GABAL, Ivan. Etnické menšiny ve střední Evropě: konflikt nebo integrace. Praha: G plus G, 1999. ISBN 80-86103-23-4. info
    recommended literature
  • Aktuální legislativní předpisy, strategické a koncepční mezinárodní dokumenty upravující otázky menšin. info
  • Aktuální legislativní předpisy, strategické a koncepční národní dokumenty upravující otázky menšin. info
  • Dokumenty Evropské unie. info
  • Dokumenty Rady vlády pro národnostní menšiny při Úřadu vlády České republiky. info
  • Zpráva o situaci národnostních menšin v České republice za daný rok. info
  • KOKAISL, Petr, KREISSLOVÁ, Sandra, ŠTOLFOVÁ, Andrea, ZYCHOVÁ, Ja. Po stopách Němců ve východní Evropě: Česká republika, Slovensko, Maďarsko, Polsko, Rumunsko, bývalá Jugoslávie a Ukrajina. Praha: Nostalgie, 2015. ISBN 978-80-906207-1-1. info
  • KOKAISL, Petr. Etnické minority v Evropě. Praha: Česká zemědělská univerzita, Provozně eko, 2014. ISBN 978-80-213-2524-1. info
  • VACULÍK, Jaroslav. České menšiny v Evropě a ve světě. Praha: Libri, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7277-397-8. info
  • HLADÍK, Jaroslav. Multikulturní výchova: Socializace a integrace menšin. Zlín: UTB, 2006. ISBN 80-7318-424-9. info
  • SIROVÁTKA, Tomáš a kol. Sociální exkluze a sociální inkluze menšin a marginalizovaných skupin. Brno: MU, 2004. ISBN 80-210-3455-6. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Study of recommended literature sources, strategic and conceptual documents from the territorial space of Central and Eastern Europe, including the selected casuistic studies to studied issue. The course is terminated in a combined form, i.e.: 1) critical discourse analysis of previously assigned topic in the extent of 5-10 standard pages and its presentation in which the student will prove the required subject-field familiarity and 2) written verification of knowledge by means of 10 closed and 5 open questions.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2016, Winter 2018, Winter 2019.
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