CONTEMPORARY DILEMMAS OF PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION AND WORK: THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN CONSERVATISM AND THE ETHICAL-POLITICAL PROJECT OF SOCIAL WORK

This paper reflects on the contemporary dilemmas that pervade Brazilian Social Work in professional qualification and professional work. We raise a debate about the existing dichotomy between what is required of Social Workers in their occupational spaces and what its hegemonic Ethical-Political Project advocates, which supports the intransigent defense of human rights. Seeking to consider alternatives to overcome conservatism, we approach the instrumentality of the profession, dealing with the professional's need to appropriate its dimensions, mainly the Educational Dimension, which deals with the pedagogical character of the performance, as a way of promoting a social mobilization that covers the responsibility of State. We used bibliographical research to carry out this debate, with texts and articles written by authors who work on the proposed theme. In addition, we are also anchored in historical-dialectical materialism, understanding that our society is constantly changing, and we need to study it as a whole to understand its dynamics.

Keywords: Social Work; Ethical-Political Project; Professional qualification; Instrumentality; Conservatism.

Br-Portuguese paper published in partnership with Pro. Adriana Giaqueto Jacinto; Ana Cristina de Carvalho Sales Toledo; Prof. Andréia Aparecida Reis de Carvalho Liporoni; Warles Rodrigues Almeida

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