Educação permanente e estágio supervisionado em serviço social: uma equação possível?

Abstract

The object of this study is the Permanent Education in the professional practice of social work, with the general objective of analyzing the implementation of the Policy of Permanent Education of the CFESS-CRESS group in the professional practice of the caseworkers supervisors of internship of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), as specific objectives: to problematize the contradictions of the growing demand for professional qualification in contemporary times and its implications for the professional practice of the caseworker; Analyzing the supervised internship as a privileged moment for teaching the practice and the intellectual improvement of the caseworker; To investigate the experiences of Permanent Education experienced by the caseworkers supervisors of the internship field from the Permanent Education Policy; And identify the advances and challenges of the process of implementation of Permanent Education. This research consubstantiates from the critical-dialectical perspective, and the quantitative-qualitative approach of exploratory character. The methodology adopted in the investigative process consisted of a bibliographical survey, documentary analysis, mapping of the social work internship field in the UFRN from 2011 to 2016, and interviews guided by a semi-structured script. The interviews were conducted with a sample of the research that presents reports of 2 (two) teachers who have already exercised academic supervision, and 5 (five) field supervisors in the following areas: Education, Health and Social Assistance. With regard to the results obtained in this research, three considerations stand out: First, the contradictions of the meanings attributed to permanent education that can assume antagonistic functions. In the logic of the economy of education, it can be functional to the formation and maintenance of the human capital necessary for the expansion of capital. From a critical perspective of education it can be a strategy of resistance in the formation and professional qualification that strengthens the social and ethical commitment with the interests of the working class. Second, despite the challenges posed by the implementation of Permanent Education in the professional practice of field supervisors, the experiences reported reveal it as a profitable possibility of intellectual improvement that needs to be strengthened. Third, permanent education in the perspective of intellectual improvement advocated by the Code of Ethics reaffirms the importance of knowledge production in and on the profession - constituting a category movement in the production of critical knowledge about social reality and about itself, as a strategy of strengthening of the Political Ethical Project of the Profession in the contemporaneity.