Resumo:
The general objective of this research was to analyze the work of social workers at the UFBA Day Care Center, between 2020 and 2024. To this end, the specific objectives were: to highlight the insertion of the social worker in the collective work at the UFBA Daycare Center; to reflect on the professional requirements, demands and professional responses for the social worker at the UFBA Daycare Center; and to identify the working conditions of Social Work at the UFBA Daycare Center. The theoretical-methodological basis is based on dialectical historical materialism, starting from reality in order to understand the aspects and multiple determinations of the dynamics between the phenomena studied. The research is based on the critical-dialectical perspective, based on Marx (2011), Iamamoto (2000; 2007), Behring (2009) and Dal Rosso (2008), to understand the work of the social worker as a practice inserted in the social and technical division of labor. It dialogues with Almeida (2006; 2013), when addressing collective work and institutional mediations, with Férriz and Martins (2020), who highlight work in the field of basic education and with Nunes (2023), who reaffirms childhood as a subject of rights and the need to break with the welfare logic. The research is qualitative, using the field diary as an investigative tool and was carried out through a process of observation and recording that resulted in an effort to systematize the professional experience, making it a case study. As a result, we observed that the mercantile logic and financialization of the economy permeate education policy, putting pressure on the realization of the social rights of civil servants and students. The day-to-day work is marked by meetings, case discussions, guidance, referrals, liaison with the network and socio-economic studies, as the main requirement. The physical structure largely complies with the regulations, but still has nonconformities, such as the lack of accessibility and adequate space for care in the psychosocial sector.
