Serviço social em escolas e efetivação do direito à educação: representações e práticas profissionais

Abstract

Children and young people from different social and cultural backgrounds go to school and find themselves confronted with a normalizing school culture that prevents them from succeeding at school and from seeing their right to education and other human rights fulfilled. Positively managing this diversity means making the difference not synonymous with stigmatization and school and social exclusion. With a scientific and technical diversified background, social workers have the necessary conditions to accomplish the right to education because they can promote collaboration and essential communicability between knowledge and educational actors. Through interviews with social workers who are part of multidisciplinary teams in groups of schools in the Metropolitan Area of Oporto, we sought to understand professional practices about social and school mediation and how they perceive their functions.