TRAINING IN SOCIAL EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY INTERVENTION - CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LISBON HIGH SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LISBON HIGH SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Abstract

In the last decades, we have seen a considerable path of institutionalizing Social Education (SE) as a scientific field and professional area. In this article, we intend to analyze the SE from five analytical dimensions: i) identify the main historical events of the socio-historical path of SE in Portugal to understand the reconfiguration of its assumptions, profiles, roles and functions of its professionals; iii) characterize the training offer in higher education in Portugal; iv) to characterize the Master in Social Education and Community Intervention (MESIC) of the Lisbon Higher School of Education, namely, its study plan, the curricular units that constitute it, the profile of its students; and, v) map the research produced at MESIC, between 2017-2019. The documentary and content analysis of the 15 projects enabled the identification of the following categories: scope of the investigation or intervention; the categories in which the research or intervention is located; the nature of the intervention, the audiences and the contexts; the methodology and ethical procedures adopted.