The importance of listening in the guidance counselor service
Educational Orientation. Continuing education. Malaise. Listening. Impossible profession
Educational Orientation is a professional activity present in all stages and modalities of schooling in the public school system of the Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil. The capacity of dialogue to guide students and their families in relation to personal, relational, emotional and social aspects is considered an essential characteristic of the profession. Freud (1930/2011) identified, in all forms of relationships between subjects in culture, the influence of a malaise, which, unable to be eliminated by the institutions created by man, is also present in school. In this sense, Freud recognized that the task of educating does not escape the malaise of civilizatin, by understanding that in this task the ideal of control undoubtedly fail, defining it as an “ impossible” profession. Potentiated, the malaise at school is expressed through symptoms such as school failure and violence, whose confrontation can cause a paralyzing impotence in school counselors, who find themselves unable to respond to the scope and complexity of the task assigned to them. The importance of this professional in the school process and the lack of research in this field justify the choice of this theme. The present project objective to demonstrate that group listening in the space of continuing education with guidance counselors is fundamental to resize the position of impotence in the face of an “impossible” profession. The research was developed under a qualitative approach, with the following strategies: document analysis - through the guidelines for the work of the guidance counselor in public schools in the Distrito Federal and for continuing education -, focus group and semi-structured interview. Content analysis will be used for data production.