A política de assistência estudantil e a dimensão político pedagógica do Serviço Social nas Universidades Federais da Região Nordeste

Abstract

The work of social workers in education is firmly rooted in the tradition of social work and has gained significant notoriety with the inclusion of these professionals in academic support programs. Based on this reality, the main objective of this dissertation is to analyze, based on the knowledge produced by Social Work, the characteristics of the political-pedagogical dimension of the work of social workers who work in Student Assistance Policy at Federal Universities in the Northeast Region, in the period between 2016 and 2024. This scope is achieved through the specific objectives outlined below: to investigate the development of knowledge production in Social Work with regard to student assistance, focusing on the Northeast Region; to identify, in the sample investigated, the occurrence of elements that relate the work of social workers in student assistance policy and educational praxis; and analyzing the professional duties and competencies of social workers in Student Assistance Policy. To this end, knowledge produced by the professional category is taken from graduate programs in Social Work at federal universities in the Northeast Region of Brazil and from the work of events in the category, such as ENPESS and CBAS, during the period stipulated for the research. A qualitative bibliographic and documentary research is undertaken as a course of action. The research is guided by historical-dialectical materialism and uses its categories as the main basis for interpreting the phenomena expressed in the textual productions. The IRaMuTeQ software emerges as an essential resource for identifying and synthesizing the situation at hand. From the reading of social reality emanating from the production of knowledge and the documents analyzed, it can be inferred that the politicalpedagogical dimension is expressed as a strategic potential for overcoming the limits of everyday life and is based on: the necessary expansion of its relative autonomy; the uncompromising defense of freedom; the struggle for the rights to public, secular, and quality education; and the consolidation of human emancipation.