A dimensão educacional do Serviço Social: uma experiência com adolescentes em cumprimento de medida socioeducativa em meio aberto

Abstract

This study aims to understand and analyze the educational dimension in the Social Service. We considered as a research support the experience of social workers working with adolescents in compliance with socio-educational measures in the open. We start from the assumption that the educational dimension is constitutive of the profession, although this perspective is not clearly incorporated by the social workers. The bases of orientation of the profession, both in its ethical-political project and in its guidelines, when proposing the preservation of social rights and citizenship of users, elicit critical and reflexive actions capable of transforming reality, thus projecting a path of autonomy and hope, especially, to the adolescents in compliance with socio-educational measures. This is a qualitative research with analysis that resulted from interviews with the social workers of the Reference Centers Specialized in Social Assistance (CREAS), in Campos dos Goytacazes/RJ city. It has been also carried out a reflection group with adolescents in compliance with socio-educational measures in the open with the purpose of reflecting on the treatment provided to this population