Academic education and their link to Social Work’s praxis

• Autor(a) principal: Flickinger, Hans-Georg
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Textos & contextos (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/fass/article/view/1007

Social Work is situated in the tension between theoretical knowledge and a knowledge that comes from professional intervention in social reality. In opposition to the history of Social Work in Brazil, the formation of Social Workers in Germany is struggling – since the beginning of the professionalization – for its academic recognition. The essay shows that the sub estimation of practical experience as a fountain of knowledge pertains to modern science which is based on the idea of an instrumental ratio. With the example of the history of the obstetricians as a professional will be remembered the classical concept oh “phrónesis” as a practical knowledge that attributes to Social Work – by the means of selfreflexion of the praxis in front of theory and vice versa – the quality of a comprehensive science, apt to found as well the praxis, as the theory and their mutual relationship. Key words – Theory and praxis. Phrónesis. Comprehensive science. Professionalization. Social Work.