Formação acadêmico-profissional em serviço social: uma análise da apreensão do significado social da profissão nos trabalhos de conclusão de curso de serviço social da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba

Abstract

The work on screen deals with the theme of the social meaning of the profession, in particular, its apprehension throughout academic-professional training. Thus, our main objective is to analyze how the Final Papers of the Undergraduate Course in Social Work at the State University of Paraíba express the process of apprehending the social meaning of the profession, whether or not this apprehension is in line with the 1996 Curriculum Guidelines Therefore, throughout this research, we also sought to identify how this theme appears in the Pedagogical Course Project of the Department of Social Work at UEPB, published in 1999 and in effect during the period corresponding to this study. In this directive, we analyzed 35 (thirty-five) Course Completion Papers deposited between the years 2012 to 2019 and which are electronically available in the institutional repository of the online library of the Academic Integration Center - CIA1/UEPB. This is a bibliographic and documentary study, theoretically based on the critical-dialectical method that allowed a study based on the historical-concrete dynamics of social reality, that is, the apprehension of the social meaning of the profession in the training process considering the dimensions of totality, particularity and singularity. As well as the insertion of Social Work in the Brazilian particularity and its transformations throughout history through the vicissitudes of the logic of capital in the production and reproduction of social relations. Of the main "findings" identified in the analyzed systematizations, it is worth highlighting: the documents present a critical understanding of the social meaning of Social Work, recognizing the social worker as a salaried worker who occupies space in the social and technical division of work and who is impelled to exercise certain activities arising from social demands in the order of capital. Some weaknesses were also found, such as: the presence of eclecticism, conception and historical approach, sometimes too descriptive and without the necessary mediations and some methodological limitations. These weaknesses, however, do not detract from the importance of another finding of our research that corresponds to the adoption of the formative-critical direction by the UEPB Social Work Course expressed in the PPC/1999 and in the TCC's analyzed, which, in our view, reverberates in the understanding criticism about the social meaning of the profession present in these documents.