O serviço social, a socieducação e a arte: a construção e o fortalecimento de processos sociais emancipatórios

Abstract

In times of predominance of the neoliberal ideology based on the globalized economy and the possessive individualism feeding and disseminating processes of inequalities and violation of rights in all levels and sectors of society, many challenges are put to the Social Work, that in follow-up to these dynamics and profound transformations requires strategies and new mechanisms of intervention in social reality. The main objective of this work is to approach art in general and its interlocution with the Social Work, recognizing its importance as a means of mediation in the daily activities of the Social Worker in a differentiated professional space, contributing to the construction and / or strengthening of emancipatory social processes of the people. It will also present the history of Social Service in the Brazilian context, art as an instrument of professional intervention to unveil reality with the possibility of building the critical thinking of the people promoting their autonomy and emancipation, and other limits and possibilities of the profession in this space, in the perspective and commitment according to the professional ethical-political project. The construction of this work based on the experience of compulsory curricular traineeship of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) together with the Association Orchestrating Art (AOA) was perceived as a possibility to motivate the Social Workers professionals in the search for mechanisms and instruments differentiated in the daily life of their activities, for resolution of demands that are always placed on the reaffirmation of a democratic society and with social justice.