Opportunities for a contemporary Social Pedagogy

Abstract

Over more than twenty years of activity of university Social Education, social pedagogy has been present, in one way or another, in the process of professionalization of social educators in their training, in the passage of diploma to college degree with the resulting new curriculum, on advances in the field of research, and has even been a spectator of the changes in the orientation of social policies that cover the practices of social education. The paper reviews some issues about the relationship between social pedagogy and social education under the gaze of the contemporary. Links not without misgivings, regular mutual misunderstandings and disagreements. However, the contemporary  look stimulates the dispute between the lights and shadows of that relationship, trying at all times to enable tracing opportunities and possibilities for joint work. Thus, the text is simply an invitation to further questioning about what concerns us, about work and commitment. A tour thus incorporating edges, nuances and intersections in order to add responsibilities and address some impressions.