The aim of this article is to analyze the experience related to the graduation course of Social Work at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE) - Federal Institute of Education. Science and Technology of Ceará (FICE) - amid contemporary changes, particularly in the Brazilian reality, focusing on the discussion about "neodevelopmentism" and its inflections in Social Work. The contradiction between access and precariousness - and such a contradiction characterizes the university education nowadays - requires thinking over the challenges raised about the professional formation and the construction of collective strategies to ensure conquests not only for the profession, but also for the set of the working class.
Keywords.
Education; Professional formation; Social Work; Neo-developmentism; Federal Institutes (FI's)
