Experiencias y reflexiones de una alumna de Posgrado

Abstract

. This paper carries out a consideration on the Master Programmes insertion in the Social Work capacity building. This event is regarded as a milestone in the Social Work development and evolution. The Madrid Complutense University Master Programme in Social Community Work, Management and Social Services Assessment Programme main features are describe. Also highlighting the change from a teaching paradigm to a learning paradigm, as well as the time span dedicated to the Practicum, its theoretical and practical orientation to research and opportunities opened to the grow and improvement of the scientific production in Social Work. Related to that, the Social Work scientific nature is analyzed, and it pleads in favour of an epistemological and methodological position that abides to the structural nature of the social phenomena we study and take part in. It is pointed out the fact that the very Social WorK history, its basically practical nature, and its traditional interest in social research constitute the warranty and basements of the Social Work development as a science. Therefore, the paper analyzes the importance of a specific capacity building in the field of social research like the one given in the Master Programme in order to endorse rigor, reliability and validity of our studies and its transcendence in the process of gathering and generation of Social Work specific knowledge.