O exercício profissional do assistente social na educação superior: a particularidade da dimensão educativa na assistência estudantil

Abstract

This work is about the professional practice of social worker in higher education with a view to demarcating the particularity of the educational dimension in student assistance policy carried out in the framework of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (IFES) in Rio Grande do Norte. The seizure and analysis of this object is constituted as the general objective of this dissertation, in order to understand the peculiarity of the educational dimension that sociocupacional space, from the pedagogical-interpretative actions materialized in the context of service to students. Therefore, we mapped and characterized the RN IFES and locate the inclusion of social services in their technical and professional staff, identifying the objective and subjective conditions of work as well as the actions undertaken by social workers with a view to apprehending the pedagogical- actions interpretative that particularize the educational dimension developed in the professional practice of social workers in student assistance. Our analysis is based on the critical-dialectical method, with the use of literature, documentary and field, with essentially qualitative approach, having as research subjects eight (08) social workers who work directly in the student assistance policy in IFES State, located in 04 (four) RN mesoregions. For data collection survey questionnaires were used, forwarded electronically to participants with open and closed questions, which were analyzed from the content analysis technique. The analyzes revealed that the educational dimension of professional practice is present in the daily work of participants in a very shy way. The impediment to the realization of educational activities may be related to factors precariousness of labor relations in IFES, resulting from work overload or difficult to assign to professional practice the reverse of bureaucratic competence, determined by the critical competence of professional practice.