Serviço social e formação política : evidências do debate atual

Abstract

This thesis is situated in the line of research Social Work and Social Policy and its research problem identify how social work is appropriating the subject of political education. Effective up through desk research, the Bank of CAPES Theses in 2011/2012 period, identifying the productions of theses and dissertations that deal with the subject. The data collection was to test the recurrence of explanatory and empirical categories in the following titles and keywords: awareness (political) awareness, culture (policy), education (political, popular, social), participation (political, popular, social ), politicization, organization (social, political, popular) and social control. The objectives formulated to respond to the research problem are intended to identify the productions that support theoretical-methodological social work to reflect on their relationship with the subject of political education, the authors investigating underlying the collected products; identify, in production, in which the workspaces Social Worker highlights the debate on policy formation; and discuss the design of educational processes of participation and social organization mediated the intervention reports. The data from the analysis of social service productions, point to a superficial appropriation of the concept, is it articulates its core processes (participation, organization and education). There is a concentration of production in the analysis of public policies focused participation in the sphere of social control. The analysis made it possible to question how the subject of political education is being addressed nowadays by the area and what the challenges faced by social workers, but is still an incipient search for generalizations, it is believed that the universe of production in the area is much more wide. We tried to help with the systematization of the concept of training critical policy because it appears under different names and concepts. Therefore, the critical political formation is different because it is a social process guided by a political culture, that is, from values that claim democracy and human rights which include the process: participation, organization and education. This training calls for effective participation in guided access to information, critical reading of the real and autonomy for decision-making. At the same time, leads to a genuine education that encourages the human ontological creative impetus in a changing perspective.