Expansão do EaD nos cursos de Serviço Social: formulações acadêmicas e repercussões em seu projeto profissional

Abstract

This research has as its main objective a systematic analysis of “state of the art” of Social Work regarding the expansion of distance education courses and its implications on the hegemonic professional project. This inquiry was conduct through the main periodical in the area, classified by the Qualis-Capes platform. In order to comprehend the basis of this phenomenon the present dissertation begins by analyzing the repercussion of the densification of neoliberalism in Brazil amidst the counter-reform process. Such process reflects directly in the manner undergraduate education expansion policies were conducted, especially in regards of distance education. It was noticed, that distance education has been used as a lever in the expansion of profitable education business conglomerates, resulting in diminishing the sense of education as social right and placing it under the auspices of the financial market. It stands out that Social Work is one of the professions that most widely adopted distance education in undergraduate education in the past few years. Taking into account the main academic proposals in the most highly-rated periodicals in Social Work area, that means its “state of the art”, this dissertation observed a scarcity of research in the repercussion of distance education in the formation process of social workers. This research highlights, as well, numerous incompatibilities with ABEPSS’s Curricular Guidelines making the critical formation basis of the professional project of the social worker more fragile.