The beginnings of Social Work at the University of Costa Rica: steps on a path of political and curricular autonomy

Abstract

This article partially presents the results of an investigation into the beginnings of Social Work in Costa Rica. Various determinations of this process have been the subject of analysis in the country; however, this article not only focuses on the training space, but also exposes the way in which the transition of the School of Social Work occurred, through the original pseudo-private institutions, to the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Costa Rica, until it became consolidated as an independent academic unit in the Faculty of Social Sciences. The objective of this presentation is to analyze the relationship of this process with the historical determinations that marked the presence of certain orientations in professional training and the social needs to which this training responded.