Interview with Teresa Matus – Social Work in Chile: history and foundations
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0259.2025.e105604Keywords:
Social Work, Chile, Latin America, undergraduate and postgraduate training, NÚCLEOS I+D+i, interventionAbstract
In this interview, Professor Teresa Matus discusses her professional trajectory and recalls moments of her intellectual development, revisiting the historical contexts and conceptual frameworks of social work in Chile, Latin America, and the world. In her conversation with the interviewer, Teresa Matus describes, within the context of the dictatorship and the transition to democracy, the closure and reopening of the social work program at the University of Chile, and the development of the pedagogical project that aims to align teaching and practice at the undergraduate and graduate levels through the I+D+i Centers - Research - Development - Public Advocacy. As a contemporary protagonist of Chilean social work, the interviewee problematizes concepts that seem hegemonic to her and the different theoretical perspectives that have shaped and continue to shape social work, now a century old in Latin America.
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