Social Educators: everyday recognition and work organization

Abstract

Social programs have been recruiting young residents of social outskirts, who begin to act professionally through cultural policies – these are the social educators. Based on a research that questioned work configurations in this particular context, this text introduces categories such as recognition and psychosocial mobility, as well as a historical-political discussion on social education. The research used life stories, participant observation and two interviews with educators of the Fica Vivo! Program in Minas Gerais. The categorization in cross-examination was used for the analysis. We realize that the segregation processes which permeate the relationship between city and otherness are present in this scenario.