Serviço social, educação e complexidade: um diálogo com o homo complexus professor

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Currículo de ensino: a formação profissional do assistente social na UCDB/MS

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Serviço social: resistência e emancipação?

A tese de livre-docência ora apresentada para discussão pública tem como objetivo central perquirir o contraditório debate entre o Serviço Social, Marx e parte de sua tradição, analisando as tensões e as necessidades dessa interlocução intensificada na segunda metade da década de 1960, durante o aprofundamento da autocracia burguesa no Brasil. O estudo destaca os principais desafios de ordem teórico-prática que assolam o Serviço Social brasileiro como uma profissão que surgiu na ordem burguesa monopólica, ainda sob o padrão de acumulação fordista, e que se modernizou com o amadurecimento dessa sociabilidade a partir da segunda metade da década de 1950. O que se pretende é, precisamente, polemizar sobre as potencialidades e os problemas para que se estabeleça um debate propositivo entre a teoria social de Marx, seu legado e o Serviço Social no Brasil, considerando-se os desafios relacionados com o que, genericamente, e até vulgarmente, tem sido identificado como “processos emancipatórios” e de “resistência” no âmbito da atuação profissional do assistente social. Esta tese é produto de pelo menos doze anos de estudo e da objetivação de inúmeras análises em diferentes artigos, trabalhos e comunicações realizadas em diversos congressos de Serviço Social, bem como é auxiliada por uma pesquisa mantida pelo autor junto ao Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), com bolsa Produtividade em Pesquisa da área de Serviço Social. O estudo recolhe e analisa, para tanto, parte dos dados empíricos cuja coleta foi prevista no projeto da pesquisa supracitada, sobretudo por meio de entrevistas realizadas e questionários respondidos por expoentes do Serviço Social brasileiro, por profissionais que atuam na área da assistência social (especificamente nos Centros de Referência de Assistência Social e nos Centros de Referência...

A sociabilidade do capital e o gerenciamento da questao social: o projeto ético-político profissional no cotidiano do assistente social

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Serviço social e meio ambiente: a contribuição do Assistente Social em Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento - PAC

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Teoria e prática no serviço social: subsídios para a reflexão sobre o exercício profissional do assistente social

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Construindo laços entre o serviço social e a educação: acesso e permanência na educação de jovens e adultos

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Relação entre o ideal e o real: a efetivação do Projeto Ético Político do Serviço Social

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Planejamento e gestão na responsabilidade social: desafios para o Serviço Social

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

O Serviço Social contracenando com a arte para desvelar a realidade

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Transitando entre as políticas de assistência social e igualdade racial: produção e (re)produção da trama social dos negros

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Transitando entre as políticas de assistência social e igualdade racial: produção e (re)produção da trama social dos negros

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Choosing social-educational professions in post-soviet countries: international comparison

The motivation functions as the most important and decisive factor in choosing the profession Therefore it has an especially remarkable role in the further professional activity of a social-educational worker to raise one's qualification and progress as a specialist. The issue of the professional motivation for choosing social-educational work-studies is becoming increasingly important in post-soviet countries, where the institution of social worker is new and the social exclusion is so widely expressed. The issue of the professional aptitude of students is also important in various professional fields, however in social-educational professions it's importance is exceptional. The profession of social-educational work is based on competences that are constantly expanding and becoming more and more complex.

Resisting Postmodernity: Swedish social policy in the 1990s

The purpose of this paper is to introduce ideas that have emerged during the course of writing a book on Swedish welfare in the 1990s. The book is the result of many years of writing about two subjects: Swedish drug policy and the Swedish welfare state. The one very specialised, the other, more general. I first became interested in Swedish drug policy on a research visit to Örebro Län in 1986. A social worker showed me a copy of the county's drug policy programme and explained the significance of the 'restrictive line'. I have spent the years since that visit, trying to understand and explain the Swedish goal of a drug-free society (Gould 1988, 1994, 1996b). I only began to write about the welfare state in Sweden in the early 1990s, just as things were beginning to go wrong for the economy (Gould 1993a, 1993b, 1996a, 1999). For the last few years I have intended to write a book on the events covered by the period 1991-1998 - the years of a Bourgeois and a Social Democratic Government -which would bring the two halves of my work together. Material for this study has been accumulated over many years. A number of research visits have been made; large numbers of academics, politicians, civil servants, journalists, unemployed people, social workers and their clients have been interviewed; and extensive use has been made of academic, administrative and public libraries. Since September 1991 I have systematically collected articles from Dagens Nyheter about social services, social insurance, health care, employment, social issues and problems, the economy and politics. The journal Riksdag och Departement (Parliament and Ministry), which summarises a wide range of public documents, has been invaluable. Friends and informal contacts have also given me insights into the Swedish way of life. The new book is based upon all of these experiences. This paper will begin with a brief account of major global social and economic changes that have occurred in the last twenty years. This is intended to provide a background to the more recent changes that have occurred in Swedish society in the last decade. It will be suggested that the changes in Sweden, particularly in the field of welfare, have been less severe than elsewhere and that this is due to political, institutional and cultural resistance. The paper will conclude by arguing that Sweden, as an exemplar of an Apollonian modern society, has had much to fear from the Dionysian characteristics of postmodernity.

The Development of Social Work as a Speciality and the Profession in Estonia

For Estonia and its people social work is one of the vitally important fields that had to be built up from almost nothing since independence was regained in 1991. During Soviet times social work and social workers did not receive the necessary attention. Severe social problems were denied and kept hidden since according to official communist ideology, life in the Soviet Union was the best in the world and getting better all the time. Social workers did not receive specialised education and their functions were to be carried out by the workers of trade unions and the party, by teachers and by the workers of the personnel departments. In the 1990s big changes, having also an effect on social life, took place in the development of Estonian society. Concepts such as social work and social worker were rediscovered in Estonia. There are certain prerequisites for the success of any activity (including social work). One of the most important ones is being a professional, a worker with thorough preparation. Social work as an occupation requires specialised academic education, which is based on theoretical knowledge and practical skills that have been acquired through theoretical knowledge. Specialised knowledge is a foundation for attaining a specialised qualification. However, at the same time one has to keep in mind that social work as an occupation is constantly changing, there is no absolute knowledge - everything is relative, dynamic and changing (Tamm, 1998). The changing nature of the activity requires reflection by a social worker, who also has to be able to evaluate his/her work and its basis and learn from experiences. Academic specialised education implies also the development of a new professional identity and higher levels of competence. This underlines the necessity of specialised education.