A atuação profissional do serviço social na assistência estudantil da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), campus Cajazeiras-PB: algumas interpretações à luz discentes residentes.

Abstract

This study was to analyze the performance of the scope / a social worker in student assistance of the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), campus Cajazeiras / PB. This was an exploratory search field and literature, whose subjects consisted of nine students of males and females living in the University Residence of the institution. The sample was not random probability of accidental type. The data collection was carried out by applying a semi-structured questionnaire about factors related to housing and food involving the / the students who use the student assistance programs in order to check if changes occurred in them during the period preceding and following the year 2013, which refers to the resident programs and university cafeteria. To analyze the collected data, we use the case study method to the reality in which the subjects of social research are entered, looking for considering the particularities and peculiarities involving the dynamics of the real, without losing sight of all that passes and the context peculiarizes . The survey results reveal that / the residents consider important the presence of professional social work in student assistance, however, 66.67% of / the respondents / clear the left, between the lines of their speeches, they realize that these professionals are in the institution to monitor compliance with imposed conditions on the operation of student assistance. This perspective points to a mistaken understanding of the work done by / social workers in that institution and programs, in that it attaches to these professionals the development of a policing and punitive practice, something that does not match the purpose of these professionals in any instance its powers, above all, from the renewal process of social work.