Formação de educadores e educadoras sociais brasileiros: contribuições da Licenciatura em Educação do Campo e da proposta de formação de educadores e Educadoras Sociais do Uruguai

Abstract

The professional called Educator and Social Educator in Brazil has stimulated a wide range of academic researches that have many purposes, from professional action to public policy creation. The main purpose of this research is understanding the contributions of two models of Education, a Brazilian and a Uruguayan for the understanding of formation possibilities of Social Educators in Brazil. First, the Brazilian experience that provides a Bachelor in Rural Education (Bacharelado em Educação do Campo), and second the Uruguayan experience provides higher education for Social Educators in the neighboring country. These objectives aim at a necessary understanding for the search for an alternative to coloniality, evidencing a formative trajectory from a decolonial perspective. Such puropose is justified by the proximity between the Degree in Educação do Campo in Brazil with the Uruguayan trajectory of formation of Social Educators, both based on the principles of Popular Education, developed in the Núcleo de Estudos, Pesquisas e Extensão em Pedagogia, Pedagogia Social e Educação Social (NUPEPES), at the State University of Ponta Grossa, of which the author is a member. To achieve the objectives proposed, a documentary analysis or bibliographic survey was carried out, which will also assist in two stages of construction. The contributions of the decolonial perspective exceed this research from the beginning to the end, valuing the subjects as protagonists, who also tell us who they are and what they want to reach. Similarly, the foundations of Comparative Education helped delineating objects and contexts and allowed us to access them and present their results. Thus, this research is part of the recent field of Comparative Social Pedagogy, confirming the relevance to the development of the profession of Educator and Social Educator in Brazil, under the influence of the Latin American context.