Formación universitaria en educación social: cartas y reflexiones

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on college training in social education in Brazil. The impressions of educators shown in letters telling about their experiences involving Brazilian public colleges extension projects acted as an inspirational content regarding means to offer professional training in the said field. These letters resulted in the following categories: learning, expectations, and evaluation. Among other things, they talk about how they came to better know the children and teen's context in regard to situations of right's violation; were delighted to exchange knowledge, learning much by teaching; accessed this knowledge in their training as educators and researchers. The thoughts and impressions gathered here to foster the need for a college degree in social education, aside from highlighting the notion of the educator as a professional/ researcher and both general and specific learning about life itself.