Apontamentos sobre a questão racial no currículo-formação em Serviço Social

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of a research on the relationship of Social Work with the racial question. It refers specifically to how the racial question is addressed in the curriculum-formation of the Social Work course of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), also from student narratives about the racial question in the Political-Pedagogical Project (PPP) of the course. This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study that used documentary analysis and comprehensive interview for data production. The legal and normative documents of the profession were analyzed to understand how the racial question appears in the Code of Ethics of the Social Worker (1993), curriculum guidelines of 2002 – compared to the 1999 proposal – and other documents and initiatives promoted by ABEPSS and by the CFESS-CRESS Set, documents that exert profound influence on the curriculum-training in Social Work. The comprehensive interview was used with students of the Social Work course at UFBA, in order to apprehend how this public perceives the approach of racial question in the Social Work curriculum-training. The results indicate that the racial question appears discreetly in the legal-normative documents. In PPP it is discussed in some disciplines, however, in some components, the racial question is not included in the recommended bibliographic references. The interviewed students note the progress of the course in relation to the transversalization of the racial question in the curriculum-training, but recognize that changes occur slowly. The Social Work course at UFBA tries to promote the incorporation of the racial question in the curriculum-training, but it still reflects the history of the profession that secondary the racial question.