1. Social pedagogy/social
education: academic status and
challenges in Europe
Xavier Úcar
Dpt. Pedagogia Sistemàtica i Social
March, 2014
Lillehammer (Norway)
http://uab.academia.edu/XavierUcar

2. Structure
• Spanish SP and SE from historical perspective
• Social Pedagogy in Latin America and Europe:
Social Work vs Social Education
• Current challenges of SP

3. SPANISH
SOCIAL PEDAGOGY AND SOCIAL
EDUCATION FROM HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE

4. FRANCOPHONE
ANGLO-SAXON
(Early twentieth century)
(50-60s)
(60s)
Practical
STREAMS OF EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT(problem solving),
AND
Pragmatic, scientific,
Theoretical, philosophical
Focused on
ACTION THAT Focused on SCIENCIES IN THE XXth
CAME TO SPAIN
Focused on
SOCIAL/CULTURAL
OF EDUCATION
EDUCATION
PEDAGOGY
GERMAN
CENTURY
S O C I A L
P E D A G O G Y
PROFESSIONALISATION
• Socio-cultural Animation and leisure
• Specialized education
• Adult Education
• Adult Basic Education (EBA)
• Occupational / employment training
• Socio-cultural Animation (1991)
Social
Education

5. (Adapted from SAEZ, 2007)
Social Pedagogy - Social Education
• Interdisciplinary
matrix of knowledge
• Educational research
field
• Social and Educational
practice
• Social profession
• Educational university
degree
Professionalization
DISCIPLINAR
FIELD
PROFESSIONAL
FIELD

6. • Specifically addressed to the development of sociability
of individuals, groups or communities, whether physical
or virtual. Socialization and sociability as specific spaces
to Social Pedagogy and Social Education.
• Looking for and helping the participation of individuals,
groups or communities in social and cultural life,
especially those who are vulnerable, at social risk or in
social conflict
• Acting in different contexts, physical and virtual, in that
daily life of individuals, groups and communities
develop.

7. SOCIAL PEDAGOGY
IN LATIN AMERICA AND
EUROPE:
SOCIAL WORK VS SOCIAL
EDUCATION

8. SOCIAL PEDAGOGY/SOCIAL EDUCATION
LATIN-AMERICA
(URUGUAY, CHILE,
ARGENTINA, BRAZIL,
ECUADOR, MÉXICO, etc.)
• Popular Education
• Indigenous Education
• Participatory ActionResearch
• Systematization
• Theatre of the oppressed
• Liberation Theology
EUROPE
L
A
S
T
D
E
C
A
D
E
NORDIC COUNTRIES
UK
• Community
Development
• Sciences of
Education
• Social Pedagogy
GERMANY
• Social Pedagogy
SPAIN
• Social Pedagogy
• Social
• Community
Development
• Specialized
Education
• Socio-cultural
Animation
• Adult Education
FRANCE
• Specialized
Education
• Socio-cultural
Animation

9. Level 1.
SOCIAL WORK
understood as a wide action field
Level 2.
SOCIAL WORK - SOCIAL EDUCATION - OTHERS
Regulated Profession or
recognized professional category
Level 3.
Health
Others
Disability (ASC, School, etc.)
Specialized Professions in the field of Social Education
(Calderón & Gotor, 2013)

10. (Calderón & Gotor,
2013)

11. CURRENT CHALLENGES
OF SOCIAL PEDAGOGY

12. 1. Build as an autonomous discipline through
discussion and consensus among academics and
practitioners.
2. Confront and overcome the gap between theory
and practice, between academia and the
profession; between the academic discourses and
professional practices
1. Deepen and broaden the epistemological,
methodological and technical research in SP

13. 4. Clarify its relations with the different social
professions, especially with the educational
ones (social work; social education,
sociocultural animation; social integration,
cultural management; etc.)
5. Build new knowledge and theories from the
research, analysis and systematization of
practices
6. Building
a
global
network
linking
organizations, associations and research
networks in SP and SE

14. THANK
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