Serviço Social em Miracema: reflexões sobre o curso de Serviço Social da UFT

Abstract

Collaborative to build a more just, inclusive and equitable society, Social Service professionals participate, working from the formulation to the implementation of public policies. In Brazil, the course was officially recognized as a degree in 1936. In the state of Tocantins, the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT) created the first Social Service Course in a federal public institution in 2006, being implemented in 2007/ 2 on the Miracema Campus. The analysis aims to weigh some general aspects of the aforementioned course, considering the first steps for future approaches that determine dissertation and thesis products. The methodology adopted was a cross-sectional analysis of the quantitative, nominal and racial self-declaration relationship of social workers inserted in the job market in the city of Miracema do Tocantins, obtained through institutional communication. The study population (37), the majority (89.2%) of whom were female, were working at the City Hall of Miracema do Tocantins (14), working in the field of social assistance, and at the Miracema Regional Hospital (14), in the health area. The others work in education, through the Regional Education Superintendence (08) and the UFT (01). The analysis demonstrated that the course positively affected the region in which it is located, although we note that, at present, its exhaustion is evident, lacking alternatives for better institutional planning.