Reflections and challenges of academic practice in social work.

Abstract

Social work is recognized among the social sciences for its ability to intervene social reality as well as a variety of situations and a diversity of individuals and groups from the areas or sectors that involve interdisciplinary work, or from the cycle of public policy. One of the challenges of this profession‟s curriculum is to promote teaching-learning processes that take into account the relations between theory and practice, and between research (both traditional and as systematization of experiences) and intervention. This is why academic practicum is of a vital importance, as a training process where the knowledge gained during the course of college studies is applied under a continuous interplay between academic performance and professional supervision. The purpose of this paper is therefore to present an analysis –as a result of a process of evaluation research–  that accounts for the way in which administrative, curricular and procedural aspects have an impact on the actual development of the practicum, either to make it viable, limit it or reconfigure it in a constant feedback activity.