The ways we build up: reílections on the professional formation of occupational therapists

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analise the existing relationships among the current pattems of formal undergraduate education and the historical trajectory of occupational therapy, seen as a technical profession, within the general relations of production context in which both are inserted. In order to do so, this article briefly recalls some tecnological, political, economical and social developments ocurred in the recent past and considered relevant, relating them to occupational therapy issues. It is at last discussed the role of formal education in social processes and, specifícally, its contribution to professional formation.