Athenaeums and pre professional training in social work

This paper shows the analysis of athenaeums as a pre professional training and assessment modality in social workers in the Buenos Aires University. We assume the athenaeums as define them as devices. It constitutes pre-professional practice situation analyzers.They are part of a logic of alternation of the training. It aims is to contribute to make thinkable the pre-professional experience in the class and the exams.The students think athenaeums contribute to articulate theory and practice and they allow to analyze cases in a group way. The athenaeums are part of the Social Work training modality and transmit messages about the ways to think the profession: constructing problematic situations, analyzing with others and thinking about a variety of action alternatives.