https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n46.06

Ana Yadira Barahona Rojas
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-5403
aybarahona@unicolmayor.edu.co

Yuri Alicia Chávez Plazas
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0115-7010
yachavez@unicolmayor.edu.co

María Lucero Ramírez Mahecha
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3378-6033
mluceroramirez@unicolmayor.edu.co

Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

 

Abstract:

This article presents some outcomes of a qualitative research performed throughout 2021 and 2022 on teacher’s discourses in social work programs provided in the Colombian Western-Pacific region. Research work focused on the milieu and its relation to professional identity formation throughout training. The epistemological, theoretical, and methodological axes were identified, as well as their classical and emerging aspects coexisting and seemingly intent to respond to the claims of the milieu, without losing identity elements characterizing social work history along the way. The importance of milieu in training is related to social workers’ intervention and interaction, and to the individual interacting in their social environment.

Keywords: Epistemological approach, theoretical approach, methodological approach, social work, professional training.