Abstract
This alticle offers subsidies to support the dialogue regarding research about the social workers' academic education, based on the document Diretrizes Geraispara o Curso de Serviço Social (1996) (General Guidelines for Social Work Programs). A qualitative bibliographic and documentaryr research was conducted to analyze the laws that regulate the profession regarding research and other relevant scientific productions, from the perspective of historical-dialectical materialism. The results show that, given the cun•ent challenges related to the expansion of counter-hegemonic cun•ents in social work and the expansion of Distance Education, the professionneeds to resume the agenda ofresearching the profession of social work itself. Thus, the analysis encourages the community of researchers in the field to consider social work as an object of study. Finally, the article suggests the development ofnew research on the implementation of the cumiculum guidelines, for example, as a way to instigate a national debate on the subject.
Keywords:
Research; Cumiculum Guidelines; Social Work