MERCANTILIZAÇÃO DO ENSINO SUPERIOR E SUAS IMPLICAÇÕES NO PROCESSO DE FORMAÇÃO DOS ASSISTENTES SOCIAIS: UMA REFLEXÃO DOS CURSOS DE EAD EM SERVIÇO SOCIAL NO ESTADO DE PERNAMBUCO

Abstract

Starting from the 1990s and early 2000s, a significant process of expansion and marketing of higher education is recorded, validated by Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Lula da Silva. As a result, a privatizing attack on the brazilian education is witnessed, marked by a disproportionate and indiscriminate mode of Distance Learning (DL) expansion. Procedure that ends up hurting the formation in different areas and levels, but when it comes to the Social Service course earns major proportions, in view of the large number of course vacancies offered in this mode, the failure of the learning distance institutions, the curriculum guidelines established by ABEPSS, the contradiction referring to its political direction regarding education as a universal right, losses relating to working conditions, social workers salary and mainly the possible implications of a precarious formation for users of its services. Given this, This research aims to understand the meaning of the commodification of higher education and growth of distance education in social work to the quality of training of social workers process. The research was developed through a qualitative approach and field research with social workers, members of CRESS- 4th District. It is noteworthy that the interview technique with the objective of complementing was used to enrich and deepen the research, considering that consist of narratives of lived situations that have produced important papers on the phenomenon under study. It is through her that it is possible to understand how the implications of distance learning mode for a qualified formation in Social Work, by collecting, through interview, data revealed to the CRESS- 4th Region, by the procedures of professional inspection and complaints made wuth the entity becomes visible the dynamics evidenced above, thus showing the incompatibility of distance education with professional formation in social work. In this sense, the research corpus will consist by the texts of the speeches and the subjects involved in the research, the study of documents and bibliographies produced about the topic. Thus, the challenges presented by the profession in its design formation, implementing the curriculum guidelines established by ABEPSS, for their skilled professional practice and working conditions, it is intended, through the study, examine the process of neoliberal marketing of formation devices, considering primarily the implications of the growth in distance mode institutions for the development of a qualified training of social workers, and contribute to building a professional critic theoretical arsenal on the theme.