Post 5: Changes to my study program

Hello! Social Work at the University of Chile is a career that could be considered emerging, since during the Pinochet dictatorship the School of Social Work of the university was closed and 40 years later, in 2015, it was reopened. This reopening brought with it a reformulation of the way Social Work was taught in Chile, but from my opinion, as a 5th year student, there are some important shortcomings such as the absence of real field practices in contact with users. Although we have practices called Núcleos, these are more like research projects that are far from the interventions that are carried out once in the workplace. From my point of view, the Nuclei have the benefits of getting to know the reality in which the users develop, learning important things such as diversity, moving away from the assistentialism and moral superiority in which many interventions are developed. However, the absence of field practices is a fact. Even, only this year I was able to have my first field, but there are still colleagues who will probably never have the opportunity to have a field practice.

Finally, the career has a wonderful program in which I really learned and I am learning, every subject is useful, really betting on an innovation that moves away from the idea of a "nice career" assistive, but its planning of practices is really very investigative focusing again only on academia and not on the benefits of more real contact with people or systems.