Serviço Social na Educação Básica: O processo histórico e implantação na rede estadual no município de Palmas -TO

Abstract

The present research sought to understand, given the expressions of the social issue present, in family relationships and in capitalist society, what determinations are being developed in the process of insertion of social workers in state education, in the municipality of Palmas, State of Tocantins. A relevant topic given the need to include social workers in public schools to work on the various expressions of social issues that negatively interfere with students' learning process, family relationships and society. Faced with a public policy aimed at guaranteeing the right to quality education and preparing students to exercise citizenship and qualify for work. A theoretical and critical discussion is proposed with the aim of identifying the main challenges and presenting how this implementation process occurred from the perspective of managers and social workers. It is based on applied, bibliographic, documentary and field research, referenced in the critical-dialectic method, with a qualitative approach, of an exploratory nature, to understand the analyzed object of study. Interviews with managers and social workers were the procedure adopted to collect data. The analysis of the results demonstrated that the insertion of social workers in state education, in Palmas – TO, occurred after the approval of the Law at a national level, through temporary hiring. It points to some challenges encountered in this process of inserting professionals into this public policy, with necessary reflections in favor of strengthening and consolidating this socio-occupational space.