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Social Work in Chile: A century of trajectory
Authors
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Patricia Carrasco Urrutia
Académica, Universidad de Aysén, Chile.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4136-0606
Abstract
The resurgence of the discipline of Social Work at the University of Chile in 2014 is undoubtedly a milestone for the profession in our country. We could well say that it marks the end of the dictatorship for the discipline, since despite the years of "recovery of democracy in Chile" in the nineties, only fourteen years later the career was reopened in the emblematic state university. In this sense, this reopening symbolizes the end of a dark period for the discipline. With the advent of the dictatorial regime, the closure, imprisonment, exoneration and disappearance of students, academics and professionals of the university, together with the termination - by decree - of our life as a university profession, helped to exterminate social work.Keywords:
Trabajo SocialReferences
Paula Vidal Molina (Coord.), Santiago de Chile, RIL Editores, 2016, pp. 398. ISBN/ISSN: 978-956-01-0300-0
