Human rights and social transformation: contributions from the social sciences and artistic practises

19 May to 19 September, 2025

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Coordination
Cláudia Pato de Carvalho (CES)
Manuel Muñoz Bellerin (Universidad Pablo de Olavide / CES)

Trainers
Ana Cristina Lopes (AMI)
Cláudia Pato de Carvalho (CES)
Daniela Nascimento (CES/FEUC)
Manuel Muñoz Bellerin (Universidad Pablo de Olavide / CES)
Maria Irene de Carvalho (ISCSP)
Paulo Pereira (AMI)
Rita Campos (CES)

Duration
44 horas

Registration Modalities
- (230.00€)
- (170.00€)
- (330.00€)
- All (580.00€)

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O objetivo deste curso é promover um espaço para a co-aprendizagem interdisciplinar e a aplicação prática em contextos comunitários e grupos sociais onde são necessárias estratégias para a dignidade humana. O Enfoque Crítico dos Direitos Humanos (ECDH) vai além da teoria moderna baseada na Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos para situar as violações como factos sociais, culturais e políticos que ocorrem na intersecção entre quadros estruturais e acontecimentos situados. Para além de uma perspetiva normativo-jurídica, a violação de direitos tem componentes dimensionados na estética e na ética como acontecimentos de produção e proximidade quotidiana e de relação incorporada do sujeito com as realidades vividas no seu dia a dia e a partir das quais experimenta situações de opressão e/ou violação de direitos humanos. Este é o envolvimento do artístico em Direitos Humanos: na desconstrução e reconstrução destes acontecimentos quotidianos através de uma pedagogia que integra Práticas Narrativas (PN), Práticas Artísticas (PA) e Investigação-Ação Participativa (PAR) e na proposta de uma produção de conhecimento avançada no desenvolvimento de sociedades mais igualitárias e democráticas.

Este curso propõe uma formação especializada no ECDH como uma alternativa possível à violação de direitos e numa perspetiva diferente da racionalidade normativo-jurídica.

Assim, embora o curso contemple o estudo e a reflexão destas abordagens, ultrapassa os seus limites teóricos e avança para a investigação aplicada dos Direitos Humanos materializados na prática quotidiana. Para o efeito, o curso dedica especial atenção à metodologia a partir de uma dimensão experiencial e incorporada.


Objetivos do curso
- Formar perfis altamente qualificados em metodologias pós-modernas e inovadoras na procura de alternativas criativas e participativas aos diferentes tipos de violações dos Direitos Humanos;
- Implementar o ECDH como complemento da investigação aplicada em contextos de exclusão, estigma e discriminação que requerem uma perspetiva transdisciplinar;
- Gerar um espaço de reflexão crítica sobre a práxis dos Direitos Humanos na atualidade a partir das conexões entre os Direitos Humanos, as Práticas Artísticas e as Práticas Narrativas;
- Fornecer os conhecimentos necessários para a conceção, programação e desenvolvimento de projetos de sensibilização, prevenção e intervenção em contextos de violação dos Direitos Humanos;
- Capacitar os/as participantes para encontrarem e desenvolverem a sua própria linguagem artística em relação às questões sociais de intervenção e investigação que estão a realizar ou pretendem realizar.


Destinatários/as
Este curso destina-se a um perfil profissional e académico alargado:
- Profissionais das áreas das Ciências Sociais (Serviço Social, Educação Social, Antropologia e Sociologia), das Ciências Jurídicas (Direito, Arbitragem, Assessoria Jurídica), das Ciências da Saúde (Medicina e Enfermagem) e das Ciências da Educação.
- Voluntários/as do terceiro sector (associações, ONG, etc.) que trabalhem no domínio da intervenção social e dos Direitos Humanos.
- Artistas profissionais e professores/as interessados/as na aplicação de Práticas Artísticas e Práticas Narrativas no domínio da sensibilização, prevenção e valorização dos Direitos Humanos.


Metodologia de formação
Estruturado em três partes, o curso combina formação a distância (Módulos I e II, com a duração de 14 horas e de 10 horas síncronas, respetivamente) e formação presencial (Módulo III, com a duração de 20 horas, em Coimbra), a realizar nas datas e horários indicados no Programa.
O curso recorre às seguintes metodologias:
- Metodologia criativa e participativa: Trabalhada a partir de um esquema prático baseado em casos práticos e/ou profissionais e em situações concretas que afetam tanto a investigação como a intervenção no campo dos Direitos Humanos. Os/as participantes trabalharão em projetos reais ou simulações que lhes permitem aplicar o que aprenderam em situações práticas.
- Método de Aprendizagem Experiencial: Baseada na aprendizagem através da experiência direta a partir da corporeidade criativa e da procura da estética como produção de conhecimento que vai do subjetivo ao coletivo.
- Ensino Colaborativo: Incentiva o trabalho em equipa para a co-criação de conhecimento.
- Reflexão Crítica: Incorpora espaços onde os/as participantes refletem sobre a sua aprendizagem, experiências e implicações futuras nos seus contextos de investigação e/ou intervenção.
- Mentoria Personalizada: Oferece apoio individualizado aos/às participantes através de sessões de mentoria.
- Avaliação formativa: utiliza técnicas de avaliação contínua que permitem aos/às participantes receber um feedback constante sobre o seu desempenho.
- Visionamento de arquivos documentais de performances e/ou Artivismo, leituras de estudos de caso e textos testemunhais no âmbito da violação dos direitos humanos a nível individual, coletivo e comunitário.

Os Módulos I e II serão ministrados a distância em modo síncrono (em tempo real), com transmissão pela plataforma Zoom.
O Módulo III decorrerá em Coimbra, no CES Sofia (Colégio da Graça - Rua da Sofia, n.º 136 – Coimbra).
Os materiais de apoio bibliográfico serão disponibilizados na plataforma Moodle. Antes da formação serão enviadas indicações sobre a utilização das plataformas Moodle e Zoom – para as utilizar basta dispor de equipamento informático com acesso a internet e browser atualizado

São aceites inscrições em todo o curso ou em módulos.
O curso será realizado com o número mínimo de 15 participantes.
No final da formação será enviado certificado de frequência.


Duração
Curso completo – 44 horas
Módulo I - 14 horas a distância
Módulo II - 10 horas a distância
Módulo III - 20 horas presenciais

 

 

This course aims to promote a space for interdisciplinary co-learning and practical application in community contexts and social groups where strategies for human dignity are needed. The Critical Approach to Human Rights (CAHR) goes beyond modern theory based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to situate violations as social, cultural and political facts that occur at the intersection between structural frameworks and situated events. Beyond a normative-legal perspective, the violation of rights has components that are dimensioned in aesthetics and ethics as events of production and daily proximity and of the subject's incorporated relationship with the realities lived in their daily lives and from which they experience situations of oppression and/or violation of human rights. This is the involvement of the artistic in Human Rights: in the deconstruction and reconstruction of these everyday events through a pedagogy that integrates Narrative Practises (NP), Artistic Practices (AP) and Participatory Action Research (PAR) and in the proposal of advanced knowledge production in the development of more egalitarian and democratic societies.

This course proposes specialised training in CAHR as a possible alternative to the violation of rights and from a different perspective to normative-legal rationality.

Thus, although the course includes the study and reflection of these approaches, it goes beyond their theoretical limits and moves on to the applied research of Human Rights materialised in everyday practice. To this end, the course pays special attention to methodology from an experiential and embodied dimension.

Course objectives
- To train highly qualified profiles in post-modern and innovative methodologies in the search for creative and participatory alternatives to different types of human rights violations;
- To implement the CAHR as a complement to applied research in contexts of exclusion, stigma and discrimination that require a transdisciplinary perspective;
-  To constitute a space for critical reflection on the praxis of Human Rights today, based on the connections between Human Rights, Artistic Practises and Narrative Practises;
- To provide the necessary knowledge to design, programme and develop projects to raise awareness, prevent and intervene in contexts of human rights violations;
- To enable participants to find and develop their own artistic language in relation to the social issues of intervention and research that they are carrying out or intend to carry out.

Target audience:
This course is aimed at a broad professional and academic profile:
- Professionals in the areas of Social Sciences (Social Work, Social Education, Anthropology and Sociology), Legal Sciences (Law, Arbitration, Legal Advice), Health Sciences (Medicine and Nursing) and Education Sciences.
- Volunteers from the third sector (associations, NGOs, etc.) working in the field of social intervention and human rights.
- Professional artists and teachers interested in applying Artistic Practises and Narrative Practises in the field of raising awareness, prevention and valorisation of Human Rights.

Training methodology
Structured in three parts, the course combines distance learning (Modules I and II, lasting 14 hours and 10 synchronous hours respectively) and face-to-face training (Module III, lasting 20 hours, in Coimbra), to be held on the dates and at the times indicated in the Programme.
The course uses the following methodologies:
- Creative and participatory methodology: Based on a practical outline based on practical and/or professional cases and concrete situations that affect both research and intervention in the field of human rights. Participants will work on real projects or simulations that allow them to apply what they have learnt in practical situations.
- Experiential Learning Method: Based on learning through direct experience from creative corporeality and the search for aesthetics as a production of knowledge that goes from the subjective to the collective.
- Collaborative Teaching: Encourages teamwork for the co-creation of knowledge.
- Critical Reflection: Incorporates spaces where participants reflect on their learning, experiences and future implications in their research and/or intervention contexts.
- Personalised Mentoring: Offers individualised support to participants through mentoring sessions.
- Formative assessment: uses continuous assessment techniques that allow participants to receive constant feedback on their performance.
- Viewing of documentary archives of performances and/or Artivism, readings of case studies and testimonial texts in the field of human rights violations at an individual, collective and community level.

Modules I and II will be taught at a distance in synchronous mode (in real time), with transmission via the Zoom platform.
Module III will take place in Coimbra, at CES Sofia (Colégio da Graça - Rua da Sofia, n.º 136 - Coimbra).
Bibliographic support materials will be made available on the Moodle platform. Instructions on how to use the Moodle and Zoom platforms will be sent out before the course - all you need to use them is a computer with internet access and an up-to-date browser.

Registrations are accepted for the whole course or in modules.
The course will be held with a minimum of 15 participants.
A certificate of attendance will be sent at the end of the course.


Duration
Complete course - 44 hours
Module I - 14 hours distance learning
Module II - 10 hours distance learning
Module III - 20 face-to-face hours

Organisers
UNIFOJ – Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra
unifoj@ces.uc.pt
(+351) 239 855 570 / (+351) 914 140 187

Certified Training - Associate Laboratory - DL n.º 396/2007, de 31/12 | DL n.º 63/2019, from 16/05 | CES Statutes

Programme

 

Module I - From the legal-normative framework to social action in contexts of human rights violations.
19 May to 16 June 2025 | 18h00 - 20h00
Distance learning module | 14 synchronous hours

19 May | Session 1 - Theoretical foundation of Human Rights from a legal, political and economic perspective
Daniela Nascimento (CES)

26 May | Session 2 - Situation of Human Rights in the national context
Daniela Nascimento (CES)

2 June | Session 3 - Human Rights on the street | Experiences and dilemmas in the context of proximity
Paulo Pereira and Ana Cristina Lopes (International Medical Assistance - AMI)

4th June | Session 4 - Human Rights and Social Intervention
Maria Irene de Carvalho (ISCSP - University of Lisbon)

9 June | Session 5 - Critical Approach to Human Rights (CAHR)
Manuel Muñoz Bellerin (Universidad Pablo de Olavide and CES)

11 June | Session 6 - Participatory Action Research and Human Rights
Cláudia Pato de Carvalho (CES)

16 June | Session 7 - Arts and Human Rights | Theoretical dimension and experiences on the international social and academic scene
Manuel Simões (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal)


Module II - The practice of human rights from the Critical Approach to Human Rights (CAHR)
18 June to 02 July 2025 | 18h00 - 20h00
Distance learning module | 10 synchronous hours

18 June | Session 1 - Project Design
Cláudia Pato de Carvalho (CES)

23 June | Session 2 - Social Sciences perspective - participatory and collaborative methodologies. Community involvement strategies for the social and cultural participation and collaboration of marginalised groups
Cláudia Pato de Carvalho (CES)

25 June | Session 3 - The narrative and testimonial perspective | Treatment of accounts from the hermeneutics of human rights
Manuel Muñoz Bellerin (Universidad Pablo de Olavide and CES)

30 June | Session 4 - Application of Arts-Based Research (ABR) in CAHR: Artistic Practises (AP) in contexts of prevention and enhancement of Human Rights
Manuel Muñoz Bellerin (Pablo de Olavide University and CES)

2 July | Session 5 - Citizen Science and Research - Participatory Action
Rita Campos (CES)

Module III - Creative Methodology in the Application of Human Rights
15 to 19 September 2025 | 9h30 – 13h30 | Face-to-face module (CES Sofia - Coimbra) | 20 hours
Manuel Muñoz Bellerín and Cláudia Pato de Carvalho

This 20-hour, face-to-face module is carried out through collaborative learning, putting into practice a transdisciplinary process of collective creation within the group of participants. This process constitutes an experience through the techniques acquired by the participants, which will be put into practice in the context of intervention in the violation of human rights.
 

Coordinators' Bio Notes

Cláudia Pato de Carvalho | Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (UC), develops research projects in the fields of community participation, cultural mapping, community co-creation and urban intervention. Cláudia integrates Research Line 5. Urban Cultures, Sociability and Participation. She completed her PhD in Sociology, specializing in Sociology of Culture, Knowledge and Communication, at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, in collaboration with the Center for Reflective Community Practice, now Community Innovators Lab (MIT, USA). Academically coordinated the REDE ARTÉRIA I project, a Teatrão-CES partnership. REDE ARTÉRIA was an action-research project, coordinated by the theater company O Teatrão, which aimed to develop a network of cultural programming in the Centro Region (Portugal) and the creation of artistic intervention projects in eight cities in this Region. Between 2010 and 2018, in the context of Teatrão's educational service, she developed a European network in the field of artistic education in contexts of social exclusion, with several projects approved under the Youth in Action Program and ERASMUS+. She was a member of the CES research team for the CREATOUR project: Developing Creative Tourism Destinations in Small Towns and Rural Areas and is a member of the CREATOUR Observatory (culture and tourism observatory for local development). Cláudia is a member of the CES team for the H2020 UNCHARTED project: Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture (2020-2024), coordinated by the University of Barcelona. She is also part of the CES coordination team for IN SITU: Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas (2023-2026) and co-coordinates the CC.EDU - Working Group on Citizen Science and Education at CES. She is an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra where she teaches Applied Sociology (Bachelor in Sociology) and Critical Intercultural Dialogue (Master in Sociology).

Manuel Muñoz Bellerín | Graduated as a Sociocultural Animator (1994) after gaining social and political awareness as a Human Rights activist (Human Rights Association). In 1998 he graduated as a Social Worker. On the basis of this academic training, he began informal research into the interdisciplinary nature of theatre pedagogy and social work applied to adolescents and young people. Since then, Muñoz Bellerin has gained a great deal of professional experience for his learning as a human being and professional: Coordinator at the Seville Municipal Reception Centre, Social Mediator-Assistant in the Family and Intergenerational Mediation Service, Social Worker and Educator in community Social Service Centres and specialised centres in Social Transformation Zones, EDUSI and ERACIS programmes (Seville City Council). At the same time, since 2007 he has been an Associate Professor of Social Work at Pablo de Olavide University. Muñoz Bellerin studied for master's degrees in “Mediation and Family Guidance” (UNED), “Human Rights, Interculturality and Development” (UNIA) and “Social Sciences and Social Intervention” (UPO). In March 2019, he completed his PhD in the Social Sciences PhD programme and, in December 2023, he completed a post-doctoral research project at the Centre for Social Studies (University of Coimbra). Muñoz Bellerin is currently a lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Pablo de Olavide University.

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