A formação profissional das primeiras assistentes sociais no antigo estado do Rio de Janeiro: unidade e diversidade

Abstract

The present study has the purpose of rebuilding the organization and structuring process of the first Schools of Social work (Family and Social Education Institute, Technical School of Social Assistence Cecy Dodsworth and Social Service School of the former State of Rio de Janeiro), in the period of 1930 to 1950, learning the main guidelines applied to the theoretical and practical development the mentioned schools and to compare them one another, to identify differences and/ or likennesses among its projects of professional improvement and its articulation with the social projects visá vissociety in that period. This study can be justified by the attempt of breaking through some general analyses the profession, so common in the intellectual production of Social Work, bring for instance: that the Social Workers are professionals come from agreement the wealthiest layers of society, that the advent of Social work Schools is necessarily linked to the action of the Catholic Church based on the Church’s Social Doctrine. Thus, we tried to verify to what extent those generalizations were valid, corresponding to the concrete historical processes, and as they were socially linked with the representations built in the profession, looking for the specific details that we believed to exist in the process of creation of Social Workers Schools in the former State of Rio de Janeiro, in order to be able to compare them to one another, analyzing them critically and reconstruct the history of the profession in Rio de Janeiro, thus producing, new knowledge in this area.