Abstract:
This article aims to analyze the peculiarities related to the operationalization of the socioeconomic study within the Student Assistance Policies of the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology of the Midwestern Region of Brazil. From the historic and dialectic materialist perspective, bibliographic and documental research were used to explain the characteristics and settings of this specific assignment, which for a long time has been subject of discussions within Social Work considering the imprecisions presented in the law that regulates the profession. The outcomes of the research show a contradictory field in which simplification makes the operationalization of the socioeconomic assessment bureaucratic and limiting when it should be a tool to widen the possibilities of access and permanence in the professional and technological public education.
Keywords:
Students’ assistance; Social work; Socioeconomic assessment; Specific assignment