Social work and ongoing training: possibilities of overcoming alienating routines

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves Cardoso, Priscila Fernanda
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Terezinha de Fátima, Nunes, Heloise Helena Pereira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Katálysis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/katalysis/article/view/1982-02592020v23n1p72

This article presents the importance of ongoing training for social workers as a possibility of contributing to professionalwork from a critical perspective and affirmation of a specific ethical-political project. The study discusses education in class society andthe meaning of ongoing education in a counter-hegemonic direction to the interests of capital, presenting a reflection on the education’srole in an emancipatory way. The article resumes the principles of the Ongoing Education Policy of the Federal Council of Social Work(CFESS) of Regional Councils of Social Service (CRESS) (2012). Also, it points out the challenges and opportunities in the implementationof this policy and construction of democratic spaces of graduate qualifications, emphasizing the importance of ongoing trainingregarding two aspects. The first is the necessary suspension of the life routine, so one can contribute to the daily life, when returning,through actions aligned with a professional political, ethical project. Second, the potential for ongoing training as a strategy to maintainthe hegemony of a professional and education project.