Nicolau, Maria Célia CorreiaMedeiros, Izabelle Emanuele Santos2016-02-012016-02-012013-07-16MEDEIROS, Izabelle Emanuele Santos. A questão da instrumentalidade do Serviço Social e as dimensões práticosociais no exercício profissional do assistente social na área da educação. 2013. 211f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Serviço Social) - Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2013.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/19712This dissertation focuses on the analysis of the instrumentality of Social Work and its practical-social dimensions, woven and expressed in the particularity of the professional practice of social workers in the field of Education. Taking as a locus of empirical research the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), the study aims to analyze how the instrumentality of Social Work is particularized in the professional practice of social workers in this institution. From the dialectical critical method, through processes of successive approximations to reality, we have analyzed in the context of contemporary capitalist society, especially in the current situation which includes the Brazilian Vocational Education, if such instrumentality brings answers to bourgeois society project or brings mediation, buoyed by the critical-dialectical rationality. In order to subsidize the theoretical and methodological basis of research, analyzes were based on review of the literature and field research, which involved a survey and analysis of institutional documents, as well as quantitative and qualitative interviews. The information systematized and analyzed revealed the specificities of the category instrumentality inserted in the work processes of social workers in the field of Education.porAcesso AbertoInstrumentalidadeServiço SocialEducaçãomasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL