A inserção da assistente social nas Coordenações de Estágio em serviço social: estudo em universidades públicas no estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This paper consists in investigating the work of social workers at Training Coordination in Social Work of four public Universities in Rio de Janeiro State. This study aims at knowing an analyzing not only the reasons and means by which these professionals entered the Training Coordination but also the job developed, limits, challenges and possibilities in their professional area. During the process of investigation, it was intended to identify possible determiners and conditions related to their entering the Training Coordinations, considering neoliberal context and the capitalist production restructuring, which have caused changes at work market and public administration, since 1990, in Brazil, as discussed by authors such as Marx (1978,1996), Mandel (1985) e Filho e Gurgel (2016). This is an exploring, qualitative, theoretical and bibliography research with open-closed interviews. The research showed the legitimate work of the social workers at Training Coordinations and the imperativeness of a discussion on the social workers entering this area considering phenomena which have occurred since 1990 and their consequences in the educational process of social work students.