Research

The post graduation program in Social Work of UFJF College of Social Work, master’s degree, was recommended by CAPES – Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel – in November of 2004. It has as concentration area [The concentration area is] “Social Issues, Territory, Social Policy and Social Work” articulated in two lines of research: “Social Policy and Public Management” and “Social Work and Social Subjects”.

OBJECTIVES

The program objectives consider its specificity, such as postgraduate studies and the university insertion in the region. Thus, the following objectives were defined:

• To form human resources managers qualified to act in social and public policies.
• To form human resources managers qualified to act in higher education and research organizations;
• To contribute to the consolidation and expansion of Social Work as a field of knowledge of social issue and social policies;
• To contribute to the improvement and innovation of the governmental social and public policies in the municipal, state and federal sphere;
• To provide exchange between researchers inside the lines of research defined by the program with other researches originated in other related programs;
• To contribute to the consolidation of existing research groups with the establishment of consistent projects that involve undergraduate students, scientific initiation and post graduation;
• To strengthen the graduation education improving the teaching and establishing research opportunities for undergraduate students;
• To produce and define new knowledges through publication and organization of seminars and congresses.

CONCENTRATION AREA

Social Issues, Territory, Social Policy and Social Work

The debate held today in Social Work and even in the field of public policies and management needs to consider the diversity and particularities that the spatial differences will impose to the contemporary processes of capitalist accumulation and its impacts on the settings of social issues.

The social issue and its confrontation through policies, mediated in their local expressions, it is constituted as the articulating axis of approaches both in relation to the study of policies and public management, as in relation to the discussions relevant to the professional work of Social Work and to the social subjects.