Experiencias formativas de educadores sociales en Brasil y Portugal: reflexiones compartidas

The text presents the reflection on the formative paths of social educators in Brazil and Portugal. In the Portuguese context, Social Educators already have the guarantee of a training course at a higher level. In Brazil, these workers are still in the process of claiming, demanding specific regulations for their profession, as well as guaranteeing their training process in a university career. The methodological approach that organizes this reflection is the Comparative Social Pedagogy that allows the elaboration of elements that approximate or distance realities around the focus of reflection that is the Formation of Social Educators. In the Brazilian case, the training of Social Educators has been carried out mainly through extension projects linked to Higher Education Institutions. In the case of Portugal, the training is carried out at a higher level and the social educators already They have a professional perspective that distinguishes them from other professionals, a process built through an organized professional collective.