Social work and teaching practice: art as an instrument of social intervention

Abstract

This article discusses the possibility and the potentiality of the art as an instrument that collaborates with the pedagogical practice of a creative and analytical social assistant, highlighting the potential educator of the art as a means of consolidating the measure. To accomplish this, the different meanings and connotations that education can come to have in the hegemony dispute will be addressed. The discussion covers the study of the Social Work contribution in the creation of a consensus in the society concerning the interests of the fundamental classes, reinforcing the valid hegemony or creating a counter-hegemony in the social life scenery. The potentiality of the art coupled with the pedagogical dimension of the Social Service may, when constructed in the sense of the transformation and emancipation of the users, contribute to the knowledge and development of individuals more inquisitive of their social reality.