Repositório RCAAP

The present article explores the standard of relations established between municipal government and social movements for housing, in the decade of 1990, in Teresina-PI, under the context of politician-institucional changes, in federal level, and of the adoption of a local model of public administration, inspired by a participated and democratic field of ideas. The research identified a model of relations characterized by the confrontation as well as by the dialogue and contradictory policies in the actions of the local manager, such policies revealed themselves consonant to the the degree of pressure, of articulation and organization of the so-called social movements, and then again falling into old policies consonant to the treatment of the conflicts for housing, despite of the democratic speech. The social movements, in this process, assume an active position, using itself of old and new strategies of pressure and control close to the State. Word-keys – Municipal government. Social movements. Urban policies. Housing's question.

This article is focused on the sustainable development that links environmental, economic and social elements, and it is one of the great challenges of this millennium. From this conception, we signalized paths for the construction of a peace culture, which can contribute with subsidies for social workers in the prevention of violence. Key words – Sustainable development. Violence. Peace culture.

The passages and the approaches of the studies on youth today cover the track of the transformations that operate in the society life, searching for its trends. And specially, looking for the understanding and for the explanation of this mosaic of nuances and perspectives that opens to the reading of the living and behavior of this significant and instigated part of the planet: the youth. All the knowledge given by the action is to analyze and to interpret at the same time the world where we live. This implies a slow and misty process to establish some “beliefs”, in the threshold of many doubts and inaccuracies. In this subject, we point out what has been produced (in the academic scope) on youths, in the landmark of the Latin American society, from the analysis of some publications of representative authors of this thematic field. Thus also the objectives of this text are configured: a preliminary mapping of the Latin American productions, whose thematic clipping will explore the “regularities” of the speeches, that is, to identify the topical repertoire that these authors have constructed, but at the same time to base the study and the research on the theme of youth (s). The bibliographical analysis of the productions aimed to socially evidence the main “tracks” and “territories” which the authors have explored and discovered on this subject historically and socially placed in second plain. It was observed that even in the diversity of areas, the academic speeches of anthropologic, of sociological and of educational origin transit in common theoretical and thematic fields, perhaps searching to establish a theoretical picture that configures the youth as a sociological and a political category endowed with proper statute. The attempt to overcome old dichotomies in the approach and in the analytical treatment on the youthful cultures, with emphasis to the complementary and to the interdisciplinary character of the knowledge and of the fields in the understanding of the youth, also flourishes as a clarifying principle to this homogeneous trend observed in the productions. Key words – Theoretical youth. Productions. Latin America.

Children and teenagers are citizen of rights, protected by specific legal warranties, among them to the family living, which is understandable as a prime factor for a full and worthy development. Many times, this right is violated once the family is unprotect by the state and the civil society, and most of time, for the lack of effectiveness of social politics, not achieving the minimum condition to provide the basic requirements, characterizing a risk situation for the family, usually for the child and teenager, occasion that has the possibility of institutionalization, which can last years, among the child countless tries to stay with the biologic family. In this period, that remains institutionalized, the time do not remain static, the child develop itself, and, after a considerable time, its situation is solved, which result in two possibilities: come back to the biologic family or destitution of the family power, being forward to adoption. Key words – Family. Institutionalization. Slowness

The article shares some results of the author’s PhD research project which was concluded in the beginning of 2006 and discusses the impacts of the present configuration of Brazilian universities on social work training. Its research sources were the testimonies given by managers, professors and students of social service at colleges and universities in southern Brazil. The data gathered and its analysis confirm the hypothesis that the model of operational management adopted by the agency that manages higher education in Brazil has strongly impacted the training in social work both in the work process of managers and professors and the teaching of the profession. The research project’s assumption was that the change in the model of university management in Brazil was determined by the crisis experienced by the capitalist institutions, which underwent, in the ‘90s, a reordering in order to achieve a competitive and strategic position in society. Like these institutions, the universities were also affected by this reordering according to the restructuring of production and the neo-liberal model of social regulation. They begin to be managed just like business organizations (Chauí, 2001). This reality is also present in the area of social work. In southern Brazil, which is the focus of this paper, there were significant impacts on the projects of professional training. These projects, taken as a whole and as a process, point to the difficulties in implementing the training project predominant in this area and in guaranteeing the quality of that training vis-à-vis what may be called the crisis in the universities. Key words – Higher education. Training. Social work.

The present study emerges from a qualitative research entitled “Professional Formation in a educational critical perspective: mobilizing political-pedagogic mediations in classroom” carried out by the Research and Study Group in Professional Formation in Social Work – NEFESS – from Faculty of Social Work, PUCRS. This study had the support of Research Aid Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul – FAPERGS. It presents the results of this investigation which worked with professors from three Schools of Social Work in Rio Grande do Sul and based on documents’ analysis of programs from disciplines lectured on graduation courses in Social Work, seeking to analyze how it is build political pedagogic mediations in the process of teaching and learning in Social Work directed to a critical perspective formation. Word keys – Professional formation. Critical Education. Political-pedagogic mediations.

In this article, it is presented the discussion of permanent education as a challenge for Social Work towards the configurations of contemporary society marked by excluding political and economic projects that demand for the social worker the qualification of his/her education. It is emphasized the work as a privileged space for professional education. Results, in a synthetic way, that, in order to face the demands that are on place, and mainly, the consolidation of the ethical and political project of the profession we need to build sharing spaces of critical reflection about the work process of social workers. Key-word: Permanent education. Work Process. Social work

The present article has the objective to argue on questions related to the health and the poverty, using given of the research of quantitative nature and to interdisciplinar, involving professional of the areas of Social Work and Nutrition, carried through during the formation in service in the Residence in Primary Care in Collective Health, in the condition of Resident of Social Work of the Center of Murialdo Health-School for the Program of Residence Integrated in Health of the School of Public/RS Health. Key words – Health. Social Work. Poverty.

The present article presents reflections about art as a form of expression of social worker’s raw data to the extent that the subjects use different manners to express the refractions of social issue in their lives, among them the artistic productions that characterize their contexts and historical time. Concurrently, it seeks to make visible the use of art as a pedagogic tool, from which reflexive social processes could be mediated, contributing to organized and educational actions that characterize and emancipatory social intervention. Key-words: art and social work. Tools. Teaching. Work Process. Pedagogic Strategies.

The objective of this article is to re-establish the interview as being the social workers tool, introducing suggestions as to how to use it, and to fundament it more specifically in the technical-operations dimension as well as the theoretical-methodical and political ethical dimensions. It is also intended that this material will be an opportunity for accumulated knowledge sharing between social workers who make the interview a tool of their daily professional routines. As every task is a socio historical production it is subject to the reflexive contradictions of the real {world} and so we hope that we can provoke discussions which will enrich all those involved. It is important to highlight that the article holds no pretension to propose any unique inflexible model for the development of the Social Work interviews because each meeting performed is unique and has its own particulars. Key words – Interview. Interview methods. Social Work.

The subject of this article is “The interview of aid in the services of social action”, and it is based on the professional practice as a Social Worker in the Social Services of the University of Algarve, as well as on the research and characterization works developed so far. Considering the goals defined for the social assistance in the university education, we intend to present a reflection on the intervention of the social assistant in what concerns his/her competences related to social action, where we defend the perspective that he/she shouldn’t limit him/herself to the social assistance but must be the facilitator of the process of growth and development of the university student. In this perspective, the interview in the social services should be more than a technical “instrument” used for the attribution of social benefits, it should allow to identify, prevent and support the student in the resolution of his/her psychosocial problems and difficulties, that is to say, it should allow the development of a help relation. Key words – Aid interview. Social action. University student. Help relation.

The process of productive reestruction has produced changes in the contemporary society, in consequence of the transformations occurred us trials and relations in the work area. The productive reestruction in Brazil, brought as main characteristics the reduction of the demand by labor, at the same time in that required bigger qualification and intensified the exploitation of the workforce, increasing the manifestations social issue, the object worked by the social worker. In order to attend the demands not supplied by the capitalist system, are develop by the entire world, experiences that are going to break with the capitalist logic, giving rise to other forms of output and organization of the work. The undertakings of Solidary Popular Economy are born of this context of transformations, as alternative forms of generation of work and yield made possible by the individuals excluded of the formal market of work. Jointly with the basic needs of survival, the values of solidarity, mutual help, cooperation, are present and are part of the social relations between these individuals, guiding its actions. Beyond making possible the guarantee of the subsistence of the popular classes that, in their majority, finds-itself in situation of social vulnerability, these undertakings configure themselves as a field of promising work and privileged to the social workers committed with the interests and needs of the popular classes. Key words – Productive reestruction. Work. Solidary popular economy.

In Brazil, the violence in the matrimonial relationships has been near object of growing accusations the police stations, judiciary and to the public organs of Social Attendance, education and health. The house, space of the family, before considered protection place and own of the feminine world, become a place of great desprotection and risk for the women. Considered that the relationships between men and women, along the centuries, maintain an excluding character, as well as discriminator. They are assimilated of form unequal, being designated the woman the inferior condition. The present rehearsal seeks the to lecture about of this situation, to approach the alarming numbers that they are proliferated in researches, news, along the last decades, seeking, at the end, to contribute with proposed effective to the combat of this demand. Key words – Social exclusion. Violence. Work. Social Service.

This essay is about research and production of knowledge in Social Service from a Marxist perspective and its tradition. It also propose the a critical revisit of the Marxist legacy in the profession, emphasizing the pertinence and necessary concern for a productive dialogue between the Marxian production (as a social theory) and Social Service (as one of the professions witch deals with the multiple expressions of the social issues). Based on these considerations some important aspects are indicated for the production of knowledge in Social Service, its specificities and utility for the education and professional intervention of the social worker. Key words – Research. Social Service. Production of knowledge.

The article presents of brief form the constitution of psychology while science and social psychology (critical) as an area of psychological knowing, very next to the social work to if to consider objects of study in theirs respective disciplines. Develops a reflection on the interdisciplinary knows and practices constructions possibilities occurring of the dialogical connection between the areas in matter, through questionings directed to the proper areas that are inserted in the group of Social Sciences and Human. Key-words – Social Psychology. Social Work. Knowledge production. Interdisciplinarity.

This article reflects the relation between development and social politics by means of the analyses of the development bids, built by the Occidental Society, by means of the modernity, and, in the same ones, the function represented by social politics. It explains the construction of the bourgeois project, by means of the progress; the development idea, in their capitalist and socialist versions; the bids of the sustainable development, regional development and human development. It starts by the concepts of dialectic analysis, trying to evidence the dimension of the social totality, of the historicity, of the contradictions, of the dynamicity and the movement. Key words – Development. Social politics. Modernity.

This paperwork intends to assemble elements to enhance the comprehension of the current discussion about the Food Security, which became a global challenge since the Roma’s Declaration in 1996. It also presents brief conceptual aspects and historical aspects, as well the composition of the concept that has gained new elements besides of its original idea, derived from the idea of supply. Moreover, data from last PNAD (2004) about the Food Security in Brazil are shown, emphasizing the impact of a lacking of Food Security, whose more serious expression is hunger. Key words – State. Food security. Public policy.

The study has as goals to identify the profile of action of the elected council members for the Social Assistance City Council of São Paulo and evaluate its conditionings. The research was developed in two steps. The first step was centered on the identification of the levels of presence and manifestation of the council members. On the second step, were performed interviews with two council members of each represented segment (users of the services, workers of the sector, entities of social assistance and the executive power). The research has shown that the most fragile segment is the service users. The representatives of the workers of the sector and of the entities of social assistance are organized and debate their interests in their own forums and in public instances, directing a good part of the subjects. The force of the council members of the executive power becomes patent when it is observed that the most important subjects were carried on by themselves and that there was effort from their part concerning the deliberation of these. Finally, the existence of an asymmetry between the executive power and the civil society, linked to the control of strategic information and to the public budget, evidenced that the COMAS still has not yet transformed into an arena of intermediation between the government and the civil society. Key-words – Participation. Civilian Society. Council of Public Policies.

The developed argument is that the third sector is an economic political construction of the State for the implantation of a neoliberal program of reduction in State’s social action, and volunteer work as a revalued socio cultural construction in the last ten years in Brazil. So, in this process, the volunteer as a social identity, one of the tools for legitimating a new position of Brazilian State. with the reduction of social action of Brazilian State, there was a desresponsabilization with the social and consequently responsabilization of society for the management of focused social policies. Thus, the culture of voluntarism promoted the construction of volunteer identities who legitimate the process of publicization. In this process, the social rights and social solidarity were transformed into social duties for the excluded and local and voluntary solidarity. Key-words - State. Third sector. Volunteer. Social identities

In this text, they come the results of a research that he/she had as objective verifies in that measured the constitutional changes introduced in the field of the social politics and in the conception of childhood they contributed to the structuring of actions tackling infantile labour, that you/they broke up with the model previous of treatment of the subject. The research had as starting point the understanding of the discovery of the feeling of childhood, expert as the conscience of the infantile particularity, being evidenced, since then, that the precocious work is linked to the conditions of life of the popular layers.. Taking as empiric base, the actions configured in Teresina (PI), in the period from 1992 to 2003, it was verified that the constitutional changes engendered actions that signaled a new treatment of the infantile work, without, however, to manifest a clear strategy, that if they directed for a cash politics combats and eradication of that work, a reality that, besides the municipal level, it is evidenced, equally, in national extent. Key words – Childhood. Infantile work. Social politics. Public administration and actions of enfrentamento of the infantile work.