Social Work in Latin America: Styles of conversion and resistance

Challenges in making school social work a reality in Brazilian schools

“…Thus, even though the practice of school social work in the country may be relatively new, previous experiences from other areas of social assistance and multi-professional practice can and should be taken into consideration when designing a national framework for school social work in Brazilian schools. It is noteworthy that Brazilian social work -more generally speaking -has gained international attention, and some even argue that it has evolved to a specific field of knowledge (Heitmann, 2017b;Mota, 2013), given the importance of Brazilian social work and its contributions to global developments of the profession (Castro-Santos, 2016;Porto de Oliveira, 2020).…”