The main objective of the GEACC is to promote, in Portugal, the introduction of Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA) within research and training in Social Work, through direct and microanalytical studies of the conversational frames of social intervention (social appointments, home visits, meetings with relatives, team meetings, group intervention sessions, etc.) in diverse sectors of intervention: social action (municipalities and parishes); migrant support; palliative care; social gerontology; childhood protection and parental counselling; social housing;homelessness; primary healthcare).

The collection of audio or video recordings of the intervention work of social workers provides a solid empirical ground for a conversation analysis of professional practices, in conditions which favor the further development of the collaboration between researchers and intervenors (Practitioner Research), from the collection to the collective analysis of conversational data, in a co-construction of second-degree knowledge: knowledge about the local knowledge of the professionals, constructed in the field and improved through practice.

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1. Conversation Analysis of primary frame of social intervention (social appointments, home visits, etc.)

2. Conversation Analysis of secondary frames of co-research in Social Work (thesis supervision, group co-analysis sessions, expliciting interviews, etc.)

3. Social clusivity

4. Microethics

Books

Monteiro, D. (2017)

Managing Resistance to Transfer to a Geriatric Residential Care Facility. In: Mondada, L. & Keel, S. (Eds.), Participation et asymétries dans l'interaction institutionnelle. Paris: L'Harmattan, 129-159

Binet, M. (2016)

Communication professionnelle en travail social, Paris: Vuibert. 208p. ISBN : 978-2-311-20362-2

National Journals

Binet, M. & Rodrigues, A.D. (2015)

“Não se importa que eu grave?” – Questões éticas e paradoxo do observador nos atendimentos de ação social. Análise Social, L (2.o)(215), pp.278–303. ISSN: 0003-2573 [Portuguese Journal with International Recognition]

International Journals

Braga, V.

"Observando o contexto nos processos comunicacionais: a importância de uma estilística da comunicação”, Revista Temática, v.12, nº2, pp 188-203, fevereiro 2016, Brasil, Available in: http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/tematica/article/view/27818

Braga, V.

"A midiatização na construção da brasilidade: os compositores populares e a identidade nacional”, Revista Culturas Midiáticas, v.9, nº1, pp 107-121, Março 2016, Brasil, Available in: http://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/cm/article/view/29364/15679

Monteiro, D.

"Street-level bureaucracy revisited: Formulating address in Social Work encounters", Journal of Language and Dialogue, 6:1, pp. 54-80. ISSN: 2210-4119 / E-ISSN: 2210-4127

Binet, M. (2016)

‘Scientifisation située et transdisciplinarité-en-acte au sein d’une équipe d’intervention précoce (Portugal): Dimensions épistémiques du travail social’, Forum. Revue de la Recherche en Travail social, 148, pp. 52–59. ISSN: 0988-6486