Releyendo a Howe. Perspectivas teóricas en Trabajo Social para el análisis de la intervención socio-educativa con la Infancia

Abstract

The theory of social work is constructed in connection with the socio-political and ideological context of each moment. This paper presents a conceptual synthesis of the main theoretical approaches useful for social sciences and for their application to childhood field of research. As a framework for arranging and classifying these theories, we rely on Howe, specifically on the four paradigms which he establishes: functionalism, interpretivism, radical humanism and radical structuralist. Each theory and its associated practice allows us to understand that there are different discourses that would provide us with different explanations of the same situation, and its application would lead to different types of practice in social work. In this report we have related those practices to interventions in the field of the socio-educational protection of children. The proposal that we present is understood as an exercise to analyze how the diagnostics and aims of the socio-educational intervention within childhood vary according to the theoretical approach adopted.