A demanda social pela educação, a política de educação no Brasil e a inserção do Serviço Social

Abstract

This master's dissertation is developed under the research line "Social Question, Social Rights and Social Work" of the Social Work Post-Graduation Program of the Federal University of Alagoas. Its object is represented by the social demand for education and the Brazilian educational policy in as far as Social Work is concerned. In order to do that, we have seen fit to discuss the relationship between social needs, social demands, institutional demands, and Social Work professional requirements. We want to stress the fact that at a certain historical moment we could see the configuration of a social demand for education, which has been institutionalized by the State. This work has been carried out based on bibliographical and documental research, resourcing to books, articles, reviews, documents, law, and news articles regarding the Brazilian educational policy related to the educational area demands and the historical insertion of Social Work in education. Historically, the educational field has demanded action from Social Work. These educational demands have become technical-operational and political-ideological requirements for the intervention of the Social Work professional. In the last two decades, these demands have become more complex due to the nature of contemporary social issues. In the last two decades, the approach to such issues has emerged as programs and projects, mainly in the city sphere, as a result of a decentralization process, which has made way for the spread of Social Work regarding execution and operationalization. The insertion of the social worker has gradually spread in the educational field, despite no legal acknowledgment of the social worker as a professional of the educational field. Moving in that direction, we can see a challenge for the social worker: bringing attention to the contribution Social Service can make to the field of education and that this field has always demanded action from the social worker.