Social education in the new spaces and times: the intertwined realities of social and educational intervention

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Ernesto Candeias
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/7447
• topic: Social education; Social and school intervention; Social pedagogy; New social realities; Profession; Educação social; Intervenção social e escolar; Pedagogia social; Novas realidades sociais; Profissão; Educación social; Intervención social y escolar; Pedagogía social; Nuevas realidades sociales; Profesión

The article is based on the following objectives, on a hermeneutic (analytical) methodology that coincides with the structural points of the text: To analyze the indications/traces of the current reality and the direction of social education; Clarify conceptually and semantically social pedagogy and social education, in the field of Educational Sciences; Understand the (inter)relationship between social pedagogy (theoretical scope) and social education (practical scope), especially the practice of pedagogical-social action of social educators in the community; To deepen social pedagogy and social education in the context of school social intervention. We use a theoretical-conceptual framework led by a set of expert studies on social pedagogy and social education, which led us to deepen these concepts in the new spaces and current times of society in general. The spaces and times nowadays mark pedagogy in the social sphere, whether at the school and non-school level. We know that globalization has proliferated 'space and time' in learning and ways of living together, with new characteristics and areas of action or intervention. We want social education to include a series of intervention characteristics related to specific areas that are fundamental today, in addition to those that its evolution and identity have encompassed, for example: school for adults, elderly and intergenerational education; social entrepreneurship; environmental and ecological education; the management and promotion of culture, heritage and ecological/rural tourism; immigrants, refugees and ethnic groups; the promotion of women; mediation (school, social), etc.