The training of social educators from Rio de Janeiro: between social representations and social pedagogy

This research investigates the presence of social representations among social educators in an extension course at a public university in Rio de Janeiro. The Postdoctoral research in Educational Sciences aimed to understand how these social representations interfere in the formative processes, articulating the results with Baptista's (2005) concept of hospitality in Social Pedagogy. Using the psychosocial approach of Doise (2001) and Moscovici (2003), the research was carried out in the phenomenological-interpretative paradigm (Marques; Amendoeira, 2020) with 26 social educators participating in the continuing education course in Social Pedagogy. Their portfolios and forms were analyzed based on the rhetorical-philosophical discourse analysis. The results indicate the presence of social representations with a figurative core on “School”, covering themes such as school education, expanded teacher training, non-school educational practices, the role of the social educator, and subjects impoverished by their practices.