https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/612 2026-08-10T20:51:13Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8598 Title: Extensão universitária e serviço social nas universidades estaduais paranaenses: formação profissional na relação com a sociedade Autor: Lopes, Suelem Andressa de Oliveira Primeiro orientador: Konno, Cristiane Carla Abstract: This dissertation examines Brazilian higher education, with a focus on public state universities in the state of Paraná, seeking to understand the effects of the commodification of education on the social role of the university. It is based on the understanding of education as a historical and social process that can either foster human emancipation or reproduce forms of domination present in capitalist society. The research reflects on how neoliberal policies and market logic have been interfering with the autonomy of public institutions and the formative purpose of higher education. The analysis encompasses the ontological dimension of education, its insertion into the sociability of capital, and the relationship between education and power, while also recovering historical aspects of higher education in Brazil and the reality of universities in Paraná. The study highlights university outreach as a privileged space for integrating teaching, research, and society, emphasizing its relevance to strengthening the social commitment of universities. Furthermore, the relationship between Social Work and outreach practices is explored, considering its theoretical-methodological, technical-operative, and ethical-political foundations. The results indicate that university outreach represents a field of resistance against the commodification of education, contributing to the critical training of students, the recognition of teaching staff, and the democratization of knowledge. The study concludes that strengthening university outreach is essential to reaffirming the public university as an agent of social transformation and the promotion of human emancipation. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2025-08-21T00:00:00Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8491 Title: A proteção social para população em situação de rua: um estudo sobre o trabalho social no Sistema Único de Assistência Social no município de Toledo/PR Autor: Alexandre, Marciana Primeiro orientador: Konno, Cristiane Carla Abstract: The research developed for this dissertation focuses on the provision of social assistance ser-vices within the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) in the municipality of Toledo, Para-ná, for the Homeless Population (PSR). This research sought to answer the following guiding question: Are the demands presented by the homeless incorporated and met by the ser-vices/programs and projects, through the social work of the technical team, within the scope of the SUAS? The research aimed to analyze the access (or lack thereof) to social assistance rights of the homeless population in the municipality of Toledo, Paraná, guided by the problematiza-tion of the emergence and consolidation of the homeless population within the capitalist mode of production and its constitution; contextualization of the process of formulating the National Policy for Homeless People and its interface with the National Social Assistance Policy (PNAS); identification of the demands for social protection within the scope of the SUAS of the homeless population; and understanding of the social work developed by the SUAS reference team: The relationship between the demands presented by homeless people and the acquisitions guaranteed as social assistance rights. This is a qualitative, exploratory study. Field research was used as the primary source, with semi-structured interviews and questionnaires as data collection instruments, followed by documentary research and a literature review as secondary sources. The subjects of this research are the SUAS reference teams. The research concluded that social assistance security is partially ensured within the social assistance and intersectoral network, as weaknesses in the intersectoral network were identified, as well as the existence of cultural bar-riers, such as prejudice and stigma, which impact access to and continuity of services. Regard-ing the social assistance network, access to other services is sometimes hampered by bureaucrat-ic obstacles, which act as barriers that delay or prevent the realization of the right to adequate and comprehensive care. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2025-08-19T00:00:00Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8305 Title: Assistentes sociais no combate ao racismo: a agenda política da categoria no Brasil Autor: Silva, Sabrina Santana da Primeiro orientador: Lemos, Esther Luiza de Souza Abstract: The present research poses the following central question: Why is racism structural, and how has social work in Brazil engaged with this issue? The general objective of the study is to understand structural racism and how the social work profession has apprehended this issue in the Brazilian context. The general objective of the study is to understand structural racism and how the social work profession has apprehended this issue in the Brazilian context. The specific objectives are: analyze the socio-historical formation of Brazilian society and its relationship to structural racism from a historical-critical perspective; to examine how the debate on ethnic-racial issues has developed within the professional category; and to expand theoretical-methodological reflections and strategies for confronting racism within both education and professional practice. The first step toward achieving these goals involved a literature review, followed by documentary research on the websites of the Federal Council of Social Work (CFESS) and the Brazilian Association of Social Work Education and Research (ABEPSS), which are the profession’s representative bodies. Based on this, research participants were identified for the fieldwork phase, which included eight (8) interviews with leaders from these organizations. The analysis of field research data was structured around three interconnected themes: the socio-historical understanding of racism, social work constructions on racism, and the contradictions and challenges faced. Social work, both as a profession and as a field of knowledge production, has historically developed the understanding that racism is structural. This perspective emerges from the profession’s engagement with the movement of social reality. The analysis of the political agenda of representative entities reveals this dialectical relationship. The engagement of social workers—particularly Black women—organized within the Black movement, was essential in enabling the concrete demands of reality to be expressed through interventions within these representative bodies. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2025-10-24T00:00:00Z https://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/8167 Title: A participação do Movimento Estudantil na política de formação profissional em serviço social no Brasil nos anos 1990 Autor: Silva, Vilma Jara da Primeiro orientador: Lemos, Esther Luiza de Souza Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the participation of the Social Work Student Movement (MESS) in professional training policy in Brazil during the 1990s, highlighting its role in the internal democratization of the Brazilian Association of Teaching and Research in Social Work (ABEPSS) — formerly the Brazilian Association of Schools of Social Work (ABESS) — and in the formulation of the 1996 Curriculum Guidelines. The research starts from the following problem: what processes were decisive for the political participation of Social Work students in the professional training policy coordinated by ABESS/ABEPSS in the 1990s? The general objective is to historically analyze this participation, articulating it with the ethical-political project of the profession. The specific objectives involve uncovering the student confrontations and agendas of the 1980s and 1990s; investigating the trajectory of the MESS and its relationship with ABESS/ABEPSS; and examining student action in the process of curricular revision and approval of the 1996 Curriculum Guidelines. and to analyze student representation within the organization's structure. The historical-dialectical materialism method is adopted, combining bibliographic research, document analysis, and semi-structured interviews with new activists who were active in the MESS in the 1990s and later joined the administrations of ABEPSS and/or the Federal Council of Social Work (CFESS). The analysis reveals that the MESS, heir to a tradition of resistance within the Brazilian student movement, consolidated itself as an independent political subject, articulating general agendas—such as the defense of public, free, secular, and high-quality universities—with specific demands of the profession, such as curricular reform and the democratization of ABEPSS's decision-making bodies. It is evident that the 1990s, marked by the neoliberal offensive and productive restructuring, constituted a decisive moment of political tension and collective formulation in Social Work, in which student protagonism was crucial for the consolidation of a critical and socially referenced training policy, particularly in the debate on the Curricular Guidelines. By recording this trajectory, the study contributes to the political memory of the profession and reaffirms the importance of student activism as a formative and influential space, capable of connecting academic training to broader social struggles. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2025-08-22T00:00:00Z