A política estudantil nas Universidades Federais: um enfoque na atuação dos Assistentes Sociais.

Abstract

The present paper is an exploratory study of bibliographical character, whose theme is about the student politics in the Federal Universities emphasizing the role of Social Work in Higher Education. As a source of queries, we turn to literature, and articles that discuss the laws on education policy. To elucidate the said issue, we performed a historical retrospective on the Brazilian education policy, addressing the peculiarities that it takes nowadays. Subsequently, we analyzed the insertion of social work education, emphasizing the role of the profession in the light of higher student assistance that is advocated by the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education (LDB) education. Given the analysis that brought us approximate conclusions of the Brazilian educational reality, we can infer that recent strategies used for the development of the current education policy actually are configured as mechanisms of the state apparatus to mask their inaction regarding the precarious way that education is being offered to the population. Thus, we be