Processo histórico do serviço social em institutos federais de educação, ciência e tecnologia no Estado de Goiás: dimensões da prática profissional do assistente social, 1989 a 2009

Abstract

This essay s object of study is the historical process of Social Work in the federal educational, scientific and technological institutes in Goiás Institudo Federal de Goiás (IFG) and Institudo Federal Goiano (IF Goiano). The process is analyzed through the dialectic articulation of the theoretical-methodological, ethical-political and technical-operational dimensions that are the foundation for the social worker s practice, understood as professional praxis, theoretically guided and imbued of a collective intention, provided by the Projeto Ético-Político Profissional Professional Ethical-political project (Pepp) of the profession. The federal institutes are understood as contradictory social-occupational territories, since they meet the needs of the capital as well as making concessions to working class demands by offering technical and professional education as a public service policy, acquired by right. Based on the theoretical analysis of empiric data, this study has identified objective and subjective possibilities of a rupture, by the social workers, from the conservative historical trait usual to the profession, as well as the consolidation of a socialoccupational territory, with the creation of a prevailing proposal to the profession. The adoption of a critical dialectic Marxism method has provided the unveiling of the immediaticy of the object, through the addition of analytical categories such as process, contradiction and mediation, keeping in mind the understanding of real as historical totality, in all its economical, sociopolitical and cultural determinations. In the investigation process, primary and secondary sources were used, such as questionnaires and interviews, as well as bibliographical and documental analysis. In the understanding of the Pepp dimensions, strategic actions, procedures and instruments used while planning, as well as identifying the principles, values and ethics that rule the professional practice and conceptions were prioritized. As a perspective and a tendency, this study points to the need to make the conception of Social Work explicit, as well as the intention of rupture or the tension regarding the misunderstandings and distortions about the functions and competences of the Social Work, and the goal is to extend professional competences, specially in the transition from doer to proposer and coordinator of effective policies that meet the social needs of both students and government employees alike. To sum up, we have verified, limits and contradictions notwithstanding, the perspective to advance in the direction of the consolidation of the Pepp in this important social-occupational territory. Professionals must incorporate theoretical-technological, ethical-political and technical-operational advances that were introduced to the profession in the last decades, doing so by means of a continued study with the objective of bridging analysis and evaluation for the processing of a foundation, based on the objective working conditions and the social relations established. It is imperative that the social worker makes use of the professional ethical-political project, so that he may be able to articulate its dimensions dialectically, developing a professional praxis theoretically guided and imbued of a collective intention, capable of materializing a new institutionalization and historical process in the profession, in such a way that it provides a new meaning, under the aegis of the acquired right.