The Titanic metaphor:Strategy of teaching of the social intervention from welfare theories

Abstract

Welfare theories are a reflection framework on action and its ends. In the training of a social worker highly dedicated to the implementation of policies, to understand the foundations that justify these policies allow him or her to identify their coincidences or theoretical and epistemic disagreements, in order to define a dialogical and critical relationship between what is thought and what is done. In this text, a reflection on a training exercise in that perspective it is proposed, a reflection that articulates the principles of the profession, the sense of intervention, the fundamentals of welfare and its application to a hypothetical case. The results are a synthesis of what was discussed with many students over more than a decade of training in the course of State, policies, and welfare in the Universidad de Antioquia.