Estágio curricular não obrigatório em serviço social: uma agenda recorrente na formação profissional do(a)s assistentes sociais

Abstract

The professional training of social workers today face the challenges posed by market forces transforming education in new marketing niche. The Stage in Social Work as a key element in the training process of social assistants converges on their achievement the implications of the current context placed to exercise and the professional training the social assistant. The operation conditions of the stages, especially the non- mandatory, exposes this dynamic that weakens the teaching- learning relationship that must be guaranteed during all the training process. In this respect , this scientific study intends to analyze the process of didacticpedagogic monitoring not mandatory during the curricular training in social work and the repercussions to the formation social worker, at this juncture of reform of Higher Education, the main focus of research, graduation in Social Work at the State University of Paraíba (UEPB). The study provided a literature review, document analysis and empirical data collection performed with the segments that participate directly in the operation of not mandatory stage: the academic supervisors, the internship coordinator in Social Work students and trainees. We found that the educational support of the not mandatory stage is a problem within the educational institution, since it is weakened, or even non-existent, as a result of current conditions laid down for higher education in Paraíba. The absence of educational support has contributed to these experiences respond primarily the cheap hand labor occupation requests from students who need their payment, at the expense of an experience that should enable a qualitative approach of the everyday professional work. However, we emphasize the advances made and the strength of the normative regulation of the profession regarding the guidance to carry out an exceptional internship, with didactic and pedagogical purpose in enabling the development of skills and competencies necessary to the professional activity of future social assistants with emphasis on national policy stage of the Association of education and Research in Social Work - ABEPSS, articulating instrument in favor of strengthening the front training project the capital invested.