A formação profissional em serviço social na contemporaneidade : os desafios ao cumprimento das diretrizes curriculares da ABEPSS em tempos de reordenamento da educação superior

Abstract

This thesis is specifically concerned with the professional training in Social Work from its multiple determinations. For this purpose, this thesis is structured with the general objective of analyzing aspects related to Professional Training in Social Work in Brazil, in times of reorganization of higher education, to understand the totalizing processes that shape it and how they contemplate the ABEPSS curricular guidelines, in order to contribute to its reaffirmation. Based on Marx's social theory, through the use of the materialist, dialectical and historical method and its analysis categories, this study is characterized as a mixed type, since the mediation between quantity and quality also characterizes the method. The choice of this study theme intends to contribute to filling a gap in the field of theoretical production of Social Work, since, based on the analysis of the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) and two renowned periodicals in the area, it was possible to conclude that this theme represents less than 30% of the discussions present in journals in the last ten years (2010-2020). This is a bibliographical and documental research, whose data analysis took place through the use of content analysis. Through the triangulation technique, 5 researchers and/or former presidents of ABEPSS participated in the research, whose inclusion in the study took place by sending online questionnaires.Twelve Social Work courses were also selected to compose the research sample, with the inclusion criterion being belonging to one of the six regions of the ABEPSS, totaling six public courses and six private courses. From the analysis of the Political-Pedagogical Projects of the courses, including the disciplines' syllabus and the bibliographic references adopted, it can be concluded that they have brought the debate of Marx's critical social theory in a secondary way, from their interpreters, prioritizing, including authors of other currents of thought as a theoretical foundation in the process of professional training. Likewise, it can be concluded that although some courses mention compliance with the ABEPSS Curriculum Guidelines in the preparation of their PPS's, this relation is not without misunderstandings and inconsistencies. It is observed that with the resurgence of conservatism and its flirtation with neoliberalism and postmodern thought, these trends have entered the arena of dispute over the professional project, culminating in a threat to its consolidation. Through the study, it was also possible to infer that with the process of commodification of higher education, whose greatest expression is distance education, professional training in Social Work is mostly conducted by the private sector, incorporating the logic that guides "this service", whose result it also relies on professional work guided by the pragmatic and immediate logic of intervention in social reality.