Educação social e formação inicial

: o lugar da pedagogia social

Abstract

This dissertation was written within the scope of the doctorate course in Education Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in the area of Social Pedagogy. Social Pedagogy is defined as the science of education that frames the processes of socio-educational intervention, and as such it is recognized by social educators as professional knowledge of reference. Based on this assumption, we wanted to understand what place Social Pedagogy currently occupies in the initial training of social educators, based on the Portuguese reality. To do so, we started by mapping the Higher Education Institutions that offer a degree in Social Education, analyzing their study plans, the official documents and the training contents of the respective curricular units. Similarly, in a second moment, we were interested in understanding to what extent Social Pedagogy was a necessary requirement within the scope of the qualifications for teaching in undergraduate courses in Social Education currently existing in our country, given what have been the recommendations of the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES), as presented in the second chapter/article. Finally, we wanted to understand how the professional actors, the social educators, recognize and value Social Pedagogy in their initial training, as set out in the third chapter/article. The cross analysis of the data collected in the three moments of the study, allow us to conclude that, in general terms, Social Pedagogy finds a significant academic expression in the training offer in Social Education provided by the Portuguese institutions, evidenced in the respective study plans and in the training profiles of their teaching staff, although sometimes inconsistently as it is pointed out. We also conclude that this training is valued by the professional actors who, in their capacity as socio-educational intervention technicians, identify themselves as "social pedagogues" holding a specific, distinctive and relevant knowledge.

Date of Award	22 Jan 2024
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Isabel Baptista (Supervisor)