Trabalho do serviço social na educação básica brasileira: contribuições necessárias.

Abstract

The present Course Work in Social Work has as its main objective the analysis of how the work of Social Work is constituted in the basic education in Brazil so the importance of the insertion of Social Work in schools can be discussed, aiming to contribute to the strengthening of the professional category in the occupational space. This study, constructed under the historical and dialectical materialistic method consists in a documental and bibliographical research having as base the official documents from representative institutions of the professional category. In this sense, by the analysis of the information gathered from these documents, it’s emphasized the importance of the insertion of Social Work professionals inside the school, given their critical and investigative capacity of intervening in the social reality. It is also presented in this work discussions in a reflective and propositional manner regarding the making of strategies to face the many expressions of social issues in the scope of the Brazilian basic education. Conclusions indicate this insertion of the Social Work is only slightly deep at the same time that there is a high demand of insertion of Social Work in the Basic Education and so, going from the educational scenario defended by Social Work, a citizen-driven education presents itself as a model of education, for it values a critical education whose guiding principles govern the democracy, the respect towards differences and freedom.