Formação profissional em Serviço Social e o desmonte da Educação superior no Brasil: avanços e retrocessos

Abstract

This paper discusses professional training in Social Work and the impacts of the counter-reform of higher education in Brazil, apprehending its advances and setbacks in the 2000s. From the standpoint of methodological procedures, the research is qualitative and quantitative in nature. So, a bibliographic research was used, from authors such as Medeiros (2018), Mota (2016), Sobral (2012), among others. Document analysis was also used, through the help of the curricular guidelines of the Brazilian Association of Teaching and Research in Social Work (ABEPSS/1996). We also resorted to an exploratory research supported by statistical data and sources such as the Ministry of Education MEC (2014) and the Federal Council of Social Service CFESS (2015). Based on a reflective and critical analysis of the contents covered, it was identified that the current process of expansion of Brazilian higher education, in private terms, and the precariousness of working, teaching, research and extension conditions is a result of the counter-reform of education, which impacts the formation of Social Work. Contradictorily, it is understood that education is a right, understood as the result of a process of wide and long disputes between different projects of society, facing a struggle of society, academic community and entities representing the category of Social Work in the tireless permanence and existence of the public university, and the conditions for carrying out the process of teaching, research and extension in Brazil.