CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ECUADOR

FACULTY OF JURISPRUDENCE, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

SOCIAL WORK DEGREE
RESEARCH LINES OF THE SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM

To define the lines of research and innovation, the following has been taken into account,
basically, the relevance to the National and Regional Development Plan, the rights
humans, the Strategic Plan of the Higher Education System, the needs
social aspects of the country, human talent and physical and financial resources, the profile and
institutional lines of research, as well as those of the Faculty of
Jurisprudence, Political and Social Sciences

The lines of research have been linked to the different areas of knowledge.
in which the Social Worker is involved. These will be operationalized
through the research sublines.

The research lines of the Social Work Career (OITS) internalize and
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transversally incorporates the principles of :

a) Interculturality, in such a way that tolerance and incorporation are established.

validated knowledge in the 'Good governance' of individuals with the right to
differentiated identity. This tolerance and incorporation will promote the
peaceful coexistence of rights.
b) Intraculturality, which enables awareness and socialization of knowledge
among the different genders, generations, groups, segments, strata and
social classes of the same culture.
c) Participation, as empowerment, in such a way that it generates the
active incorporation of difference in promotion, conservation, management
of rights in general.
d) Equity, in such a way that differentiated cultures, man-woman, young,
compete without differences in access and management to the implementation and
improvement of rights in general.
e) Temporality incorporates the new temporal order as a consequence
historical, that is, the circumstantial sense rescuing secularism and the
history, regarding social movements and the new arrangement
legal and political of the country.
f) Totality and integrality, which implies addressing the social issues
as a whole composed of the tangible and intangible in an integral way and
complementary.

1 See: Michel, Freddy. "The Festival": A Study of Traditional Popular Festivals in the Countries of the Andrés Bello Agreement:
Chapter Bolivia - IADAP Quito - Ecuador. 2003b; Michel, F. and Morales A., et al. Communication and Dissemination Strategy for the
Bolivian Agricultural Technology System (SIBTA), Educational System of Action and Social Mobilization La Paz–Bolivia
2002b; Studies of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) Regarding Chagas Disease. Ministry of Health and Welfare
Social. Epidemiological Shield. CAPPR Chagas, Foundation Educational System of Social Action and Mobilization, La Paz–Bolivia,
2001a; Michel, F. and Rivero E., et al., Information Education and Training (IEC) Strategy for the National Program
Chagas. Educational System of Social Action and Mobilization, La Paz–Bolivia, 2001b; Michel, F. and Vásquez J., “Guide
Methodological: For the retrospective systematization in the PROCADE experience, PROCADE-UNITAS. La Paz-Bolivia,
2000a; Michel, F. and Chilón E. Ancestral Technologies for Reducing the Risk of Climate Phenomena in the Altiplano and
the Valleys, PROCADE–UNITAS. La Paz–Bolivia, 2000a; Michel, P. Freddy, "Approaches and Indicators of Interculturality and
Ethnicity in Development Projects: A Case Study" In: Identities No. 19, (P.101-128), Andean Institute of Arts
Popular, Andrés Bello Agreement Andean Community, Quito–Ecuador, 1997.

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 g) Sustainability, incorporating interculturality, intraculturality, the
empowerment, equity, temporality, and the sense of wholeness.

For the Social Work degree, the following lines of research are considered:

CURRICULAR DEVELOPMENT AND RELEVANCE

This line focuses on the analysis of the different components of the system.
training of the social work career, its relevance to the needs of
immediate context and the requirements of the labor market what
will allow the incorporation of innovations, new theories, approaches, as well as methods
training to maintain and improve the quality of training of the
social workers. Involving macro, meso, and planning.
microcurricular, related to the connection with society

STATE, SOCIETY/COMMUNITY AND FAMILY

This line refers to the construction of the valuation of the human being and the
utilization of resources, responsibilities, and inclusion services of the
population and family, with their behaviors, attitudes, and related practices
with public and private policies for a dignified life based on principles
ethical principles of equity, justice, and freedom. It seeks to satisfy needs in a
model of equality of rights, based on the analysis of reality
quantitative and qualitative and intervention strategies in the social organization
for their economic autonomy, health, and educational opportunities
individual and collective development.

Participatory Local Development

This line of research refers to the characteristics of organization.
community, urban, marginal urban and rural referencing the
political and administrative subdivision of populated settlements, the use of
land, productive means, social organization, the construction of links
collaborative to achieve community and individual well-being goals,
based on experience, science, and ancestral knowledge, as well as
also in the complexity of modern times and the transnationalization of
culture, satisfaction of needs, and human mobility in environments
natural and artificial, determining factors of vulnerability and
entrepreneurship of social groups.

SOCIAL/COLLECTIVE EDUCATIONAL ANALYSIS

This line of research considers that educational systems are the reflection
of social behaviors, which respond to the construction of a
society directed by state policies, for this it is based on the
analysis of school coexistence of priority groups, authorities, teachers,
students, parents, and family members, and directly related community
indirectly with the formation of new generations, links the
behavioral transformations due to the influence of technologies
information and communication and Environmental Education.

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 SOCIETY, COMMUNITY AND HEALTH
This line of research relates the training of the Social Worker with the
physical, mental, and occupational health services for the population, starting from the
internal needs of health institutions and external demands of
primary care in collaboration between health centers, community institutions
public, private NGOs, and GADs related to good living and care
prioritized by reducing the coverage gap, and in attention to groups
unprotected relating to administrative, operational, and assistance aspects.

WORKING REALITY WITH A FOCUS ON EQUITY

This line of research involves the contextualization of social work in
work areas of public and private companies, in which it seeks balance
between work responsibilities and individual and family well-being
personnel working in a company seeks to determine the mutual benefit between
the worker and the employer, to improve emotional, salary, and
attention in services.

SUMMARY MATRIX

ORDER LINES OF SUBLINE

RESEARCH
Social Sciences and Social Work Theories;
Social Sciences and Social Work Methods;
DEVELOPMENT Y Pre-professional practices in Social Work;
1 RELEVANCE Research experiences in Social Work.
CURRICULAR Internships
Linking with Society and the Community

Social, Community, and Family Structuring;

Social, Community, and Family Welfare;
Relationship between State, Society, Community, and Family;
Moral and Ethical Values in the Organization
Societal, Community, and Family;
Human Mobility (migration and diasporas)
Community and Family Society;
Economy, Society, Community and Families;
Intrafamily Violence, Society and Community;
Childhood and Adolescence in Society,
Community and in the Family;
STATE Conflict Mediation in the Family, Society and
2 SOCIETY/COMMUNITY the Community;
AND FAMILY ICTs, Society, Community, and Family;
Complexity, Society, Community, and Family.
Attention and Protection of Minors;
Security and social benefits to groups
vulnerable
Attention to detainees;
Human trafficking;
Tracking of urban subcultures;
Administration of justice;
GLBTI;
Refugees.

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 Community development and organization
Leadership in Community Organization;
Development and Community Participation;
The Woman in Community Development;
Cooperativism and community;
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT Community and entrepreneurship;
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PARTICIPATORY Informal employment and trade;
Human and social capital in local development;
Social and solidarity economy;
GADs;
Sustainable development;
Collective intelligence.
Educational Academic Performance;
Society and Student Dropout;
School enrollment rates;
ANALYSIS Adolescence and High School;
4 SOCIAL/COMMUNAL Migration and Performance;
EDUCATIONAL State Policies;
Family participation and educational institutions;
Violence in educational institutions;
Environmental education.
Health as a Social Right;
Role of health professionals in
family issues;
SOCIETY,
Health care with quality and warmth;
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Attention to special cases;
Health coverage;
Case studies on vulnerability;
Administrative management of health.
Relevance of work responsibilities;
Labor relations between workers and employers;
Human relations and institutional climate;
Occupational Safety and Health;
REALITY LABORAL
Family-work social issues;
With APPROACH OF
6 Job Instability;
EQUITY
Job Insecurity;
Wage inequality;
Repercussions of work activity and family;
Social security;
Labor informality.

The consideration of these research lines will be mandatory for the

development of the Interdisciplinary Observatory of the Social Work Career (OITS)
with its scientific, training, applied research programs and projects
generative in the academic activities implemented in the Social Work degree
Social.

In addition, the results of the conducted research will be incorporated as

bibliographic reference in the syllabi of the subjects of the different axes of
training.