Reforma universitária e Projeto Político Pedagógico: as tendências contemporâneas na formação profissional em Serviço Social

Abstract

This Master's Thesis presents as an object of study the process of professional training of the Social Worker, materialized in the Political Pedagogical Projects of the on-site courses of Bachelor of Social Work in private Teaching Units in the city of João Pessoa / PB. Objective analyzes comparatively the existing trends in academic-professional training given in on-site courses of Bachelor of Service in Private Teaching Units in the city of João Pessoa. The analysis process of this object of study is based on the crisis situation of capitalism from the 1970s onwards and its coping strategies that focused on the increase of the State's counter-reform in 1995, and consequently, changed the logic of Higher Education in Brazil through the approval of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (LDB), in 1996, for favoring the privatization tendencies of Higher Education and the Neoliberal University Reform, in the FHC and Lula administrations. These mercantilist strategies served as a way of appropriating the public fund for the maintenance and consolidation of capitalism based on the guidelines of international organizations. The marketing perspective of Higher Education, among other aspects, enables the construction of a professional profile adjusted to the new order of capital from the perspective of subjectivity, lightened, presenteeist and pluralism. The inflections for professional training, especially for training in Social Work, reveal the tendency towards a neoconservative direction, therefore, the denial of the critical social direction of the Pedagogical Political Project from the perspective of historical and materialist totality. In terms of method, dialectical historical materialism is adopted; and as for the methodological procedures, it is typified as documental and bibliographical research, of a quantitative-qualitative nature with the use of tables and demonstrative tables of a comparative character. The investigative unit is made up of 5 (five) Private Teaching Units in João Pessoa/PB – from which there was access to 4 (four) Political Pedagogical Projects (PPP) of the Social Work Bachelor Course. In order to proceed with the analysis of knowledge and inventory the current trends in professional training from the PPP of on-site courses of Bachelor of Social Work in private teaching units, the following thematic axes were analyzed: training objectives, graduate profile, skills and professional skills, assumptions and principles of training, profile of the teaching staff, discipline menus and respective references indicated. The results of the PPP's documentary and bibliographic research on social direction in the professional training of Social Workers revealed trends that sometimes come closer and sometimes distance themselves from the Curriculum Guidelines of CONESS (1999), but tending with greater or lesser accuracy to neoconservatism in professional training, reinforcing a pragmatic, immediate and utilitarian professional profile without seeking critical training. In this way, it is possible to identify, in the structure of the analyzed PPP, divergences or ambivalences regarding the social direction of ABESS (1996), reaffirmed by the Commission of Education Specialists in Social Work (MEC/SESu/CCEE,1999), based on training generalist and critical.