Professional development activities (4cr)

Objective

Students
• are able to observe the development needs and targets of working life using different methods
• know the stages and methods of the development process in the social, health and church sectors
• recognise ethical questions for consideration in development activities
• know the different types and sources of information and understand the importance of having a critical approach to sources
• recognise R&D text types, their structures and linguistic features

Content

• development needs and targets in working life and methods for identifying them
• process, methodology and evaluation of development and project activities
• customer involvement and co-creation
• basic concepts and practices of project activities and service design
• ethical basis for development activities
• information sources, databases and critical approach to sources
• information retrieval and professional literacy development

Further information

AHOT 8/2025:
Diakin AHOT-ohjeet ja käytännöt.