THE TEACHING EXERCISE OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN SOCIAL WORK COURSES OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN RN AND THE SOCIAL WORK’S ETHICAL-POLITICAL PROJECT
Teaching in Social Work. Professional formation. Teaching strategies. Ethical-Political Project.
The present research project aims to analyse the teaching exercise by Social Workers inserted in public and private Higher Education Institutions, considering their strategies to ensure the professional formation in accordance with the direction of Social Work’s Ethical-Political Project. The socio-occupational field of Social Work teaching within the scope of public and private Higher Education Institutions has been involved by a set of limits and chalenges, which differ when we consider the configurations from the respectives Education Institutions and also the professors’ employment bond. This is because in the public institutions prevails the Curricular Guidelines of Brazilian Association of Teaching and Research of Social Work, while in the context of private institutions the Guidelines of Education Ministery are prioritized, which precarize the professional formation and teaching work of Social Workers. In this way, our research object is the relation between the particularities of the teaching exercise, while professional acting field of Social Workers, and the teaching strategies used to assure the direction of Social Work’s Ethical-Political Project. We point out that the debate and efectiviry of teaching strategies act as one of the challenges faced at the daily work of Social Work professors. The research method will be historical-dialethical materialism and the qualitative approach. We will also perform blibliographical survey in the CAPES repository and documental survey to obtain the data referring to the private Higher Education Insititutions in RN which offer the Social Work graduation course and their respective professors,being this process developed in cowork with CRESS/RN. We will make use of semiestructured interview and questionnaire , which will be directed to professors of public and private Higher Education Institutions. Having said that , we reaffirm the relevance of the debate on teaching in Social Work, considering the reducted quantitative of productions on this thematic, the current scenario of commercialisation and precariousness of Higher Education and also the necessity of defend the profession’s Ethical-Political Project within the scope of the formation and exercise of teaching in Social Work.