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Decidi iniciar o Mestrado de Serviço Social motivado pelo desejo de aprofundar com critérios científicos a minha trajetória pessoal ligada aos trabalhadores e pobres desde 1978.
Foi aliciante poder olhar, a parir dos ensinamentos que me eram transmitidos pelos professores e pelas fundamentações teóricas de autores consagrados, as matérias e experiências que tinha vivenciado. Assuntos como a Globalização, Intervenção Territorial e Comunitária, Novas Tecnologias, Mudanças no Mundo do trabalho, Mudança Social, Serviço Social e Metodologias de Investigação, entre outros, abriram-me novos horizontes em profundidade e amplitude.
Foi sobretudo o contato diário com trabalhadores desempregados e suas famílias no dia-a-dia, alguns dos quais tinha conhecido desde o início da década de 80, então, como padre operário e dirigente do Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do Sul e atualmente pároco em bairros pobres e populares de Setúbal, que me motivaram a escrever a minha Dissertação sobre ―Percursos de Trabalhadores Desempregados de Setúbal – Mundo de Trabalho em Mudança”.
Pretendi conhecer as suas trajetórias e percursos e perceber como as percorreram e que alterações se processaram em suas vidas, famílias e na sua vida em sociedade. Não se tratava duma simples curiosidade intelectual e científica, mas de me apetrechar de conhecimentos e ferramentas para criar mais empatia e prestar um serviço solidário eficiente, de qualidade e integrado num processo transformador da sociedade.
Fui-me apercebendo duma união existente entre os seus percursos e o meu, e duma articulação entre o papel de padre e o de Técnico de Serviço Social.
Realizei várias entrevistas em profundidade, escutei um número bastante elevado de testemunhos de desempregados e li estudos de muitos autores.
As conclusões a que cheguei trouxeram-me novos dados e interpelações.
I decided to initiate the Mestrado de Serviço Social (Social Services Masters Degree) motivated by the desire of increasing, with scientific criteria, my own personal trajectory, one that is connected to the workers and those in need since 1978. It was thrilling to be able to look upon my personal past experiences through the eyes of the theoretical foundations that were passed over to me through my teachers and consecrated authors. My perceptive horizons were widely deepened in both depth and amplitude through the learning of issues such as Globalization, Territorial and Communitarian Intervention, New Technologies, Changes in the Working World, Social Changes, Social Service and Investigation Methodologies. It was mostly through the daily contact with the unemployed, their families and daily life, some of whom I've known since the early 80's - then as a blue-collar worker priest and Union Leader of Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do Sul and today as a Minister working in poor neighborhoods of Setúbal - that I got motivated to write my dissertation on "Percursos de Trabalhadores Desempregados de Setúbal - Mundo de trabalho em Mudança". I intended to know their trajectories, their paths, and understand how they went through them; which changes happened in their lives, families and society. It wasn't just about a simple intellectual and scientific curiosity, it was about acquiring the knowledge and tools to create more empathy and be able to do an efficient social work, one of quality, integrated in a society changing process. I got to realize the union between their paths and mine, and an articulation between the roles of Priest and Técnico de Serviço Social (Social Worker). I conducted, with depth, several interviews; i listened to a large number of testimonies of unemployed people and I read a lot of author’s cases. The conclusions to which I came brought me new data and interpellations.
I decided to initiate the Mestrado de Serviço Social (Social Services Masters Degree) motivated by the desire of increasing, with scientific criteria, my own personal trajectory, one that is connected to the workers and those in need since 1978. It was thrilling to be able to look upon my personal past experiences through the eyes of the theoretical foundations that were passed over to me through my teachers and consecrated authors. My perceptive horizons were widely deepened in both depth and amplitude through the learning of issues such as Globalization, Territorial and Communitarian Intervention, New Technologies, Changes in the Working World, Social Changes, Social Service and Investigation Methodologies. It was mostly through the daily contact with the unemployed, their families and daily life, some of whom I've known since the early 80's - then as a blue-collar worker priest and Union Leader of Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do Sul and today as a Minister working in poor neighborhoods of Setúbal - that I got motivated to write my dissertation on "Percursos de Trabalhadores Desempregados de Setúbal - Mundo de trabalho em Mudança". I intended to know their trajectories, their paths, and understand how they went through them; which changes happened in their lives, families and society. It wasn't just about a simple intellectual and scientific curiosity, it was about acquiring the knowledge and tools to create more empathy and be able to do an efficient social work, one of quality, integrated in a society changing process. I got to realize the union between their paths and mine, and an articulation between the roles of Priest and Técnico de Serviço Social (Social Worker). I conducted, with depth, several interviews; i listened to a large number of testimonies of unemployed people and I read a lot of author’s cases. The conclusions to which I came brought me new data and interpellations.