A natureza do conhecimento orientador da prática do assistente social frente aos desafios do cotidiano

Abstract

This text deals with the nature of the knowledge that guides the practice of the social assistant facing the challenges of everyday‘s work, debating the necessity that every knowledge is made present in the worker in an effective way, from which derives an analysis about the importance of criticism against every establishment. This leads to a reflection about the link between scientific knowledge and common sense knowledge, as also to the matter of pluralism and ecletism. It also debates the importance that the worker understands the connection between the level of theoretical  universality and its potentiality to serve the level of concrete particularities/singularities, which the social assistant faces during everyday‘s practice: the necessity of learning how to work with mediation.