Social Work: ontological or instrumental reason?

Authors

  • José Fernando Siqueira da Silva Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp, Franca).

Abstract

This essay analyzes the opposition between ontological and instrumental perspectives as a reference for the particular field of the professions and the process of professional education of social workers. To do so it raises an important question: what type of professional is to be educated, intellectuals or technical-operatives? Considering the current stage of capitalist accumulation, it seeks to contribute to the contemporary debate about the strategic social direction assumed since the 1990s by the main representative
organizations of the professional category of social workers in Brazil.

Author Biography

José Fernando Siqueira da Silva, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp, Franca).

Livre-docente em Serviço Social pela Universidade Estadual Paulista. Doutor em Serviço Social pela PUC. Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Serviço Social da Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (UNESP-Franca).

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Published

2013-06-10

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2013): Marx, Marxismos e Serviço Social

Section

Thematic space

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