A qualificação profissional dos/as assistentes sociais do RN e seus determinantes socioeconômicos e ético-políticos: uma análise a partir da Política de Educação Permanente do Conjunto CFESS/CRESS

Abstract

This work discusses the Professional qualification mechanisms accessed by social workers, and their relationships and implications with the CFESS/CRESS group’s Permanent Educational Policy, with the main general objective of analyzing the socioeconomic and ethical-political determinants present in the search of the social workers of the Rio Grande do Norte State (RN State) for professional qualification. In the purpose, a documentary research was carried out in the Regional Council of Social Work (CRESS / RN - 14th Region) between the years of 2013 and 2015, based on the inspection records, through which we delimit our sample for field research, carried out with nine social workers through an interview guided by a semi-structured script, associated to the bibliographical survey, essential for the construction and analysis of our object. Throughout the work, we considered the changes that have been occurring in the social, politic and economic plans, engendered by the capital and the labor market, being orchestrated by neoliberalism since 1990 whose repercussions affect the working class and the social workers, objectively and subjectively. These transformations reflect on the professional formation, which turns to attend the interests of this market, forging a certain professional profile that is opposed to that proposed by the ethical-political project. Consequently, the defense and direction given by the Permanent Education Policy of the CFESS / CRESS group to the process of permanent education of social workers finds a strong limit, especially in the real possibilities of Permanent Education to contribute to the process of political organization of the category. Then, we seek to reflect on the reality found in the daily life of the social workers of the RN State about their formative processes beyond graduation, as well as on the impacts of their searches for qualification in their professional exercises, based on the analyzes based on the Marxist tradition. We observe that the supervised internship has enabled the social workers to access (re)readings, debates and (re)constructions of knowledge that, although presented with many limitations, can be oxygenated in the direction of the permanent education perspective that we defend as category. We have also seen that the difficulties in the process of permanent education of the social workers of the RN State express a set of macrossocietary determinations objectively and subjectively in the search and access of these professionals for the intellectual improvement. We emphasize that only with a perspective of education beyond capital can we construct a process of permanent education that exceeds the determinations imposed by the labor market, with many limitations imposed by the sociability of capital and the conditions and labor relations of social workers , Which imposes on us the need to resist and fight through the strategies built collectively, of which the Permanent Education Policy of the CFESS / CRESS group forms part.