Abstract
This article derives from a recently completed research and analyzes the intervention strategies of social work in schooling policies, especially the contemporary ones. In this sense, as inequalities increase and demands for schooling become more complex, the social work profession is a privileged instrument of intervention in schooling policies. For the purposes of investigation, we have discussed: how does the emergence of the social conditions of a society of risk favor the entry of these new professionals into schooling policies? To this end, this article aims to identify the shifts in the social work intervention strategies in contemporary schooling policies. As for methodology, the research is of a qualitative nature and encompasses the analysis of different documents that guide schooling policies, as well as texts that regulate the professional context social work. It indicates that, in the historical constitution of the relations between social work and education, there have been significant changes of emphasis on political rationalities and forms of intervention. Although the debate on social protections and the fight against inequalities is constant, an intensification can be noticed since the 1990s, not only in the expansion of the relation between education and social work, but also and mainly in the prerogative that includes social protection.
Education; Social work; Schooling policies; Social protection