ABSTRACT
The demands for social work/service carried out by educational institutions in Argentina and Brazil are associated with the historical process of establishing compulsory schooling and the universalization of the right to education. This obligation was legislated for the first time in 1884 in Argentina by the Law number 1,420 and in the Federal Constitution of 1934 in Brazil, where it faced greater difficulties in order to be institutionalized due to the historic decentralizing force. In spite of this and based on a review of the specialized literature, we can observe that, in both countries, there were, more or less, clear steps in the relationship between compulsory schooling, universalization of basic education, student body poverty situation and institutionalization of social work/service in the educational system: hygienist, developmental, authoritarian and democratizing/neoliberal stage.
Keywords:
Right to education; Multiprofessional-multidisciplinary teams; Intersectoriality; Educational legislation; Processes of school-educational work.