Multiplicar práticas psicoeducativas: ofício e sentido para uma equipe de educadores

Abstract

The goal of this research was to understand how the practice of being a social educator has happened after a course to prepare them. These social educators work in a Union in Sao Paulo s north neighborhood. The participants were educators that live and work there, and develop an Educational work with children and adolescents. Along 2011 and 2013, a research group called ECOFAM, offered a course to train the Association s educators to improve their work with families. After the course, the Association created a team of social educators to work with neighborhood s families, who are the participants of this research. This was a quality research, based on the fundamentals of Existential Phenomenology. In order to answer the question that the research rose, there were five group meetings between the team and the researcher, aiming to investigate their practice and the meaning of their work. The speeches were transcript, analyzed, and revealed three constellations : relationship during the group meetings, way of being social educator, group s goals. The results indicated that the social educator s goal in their practice is to help the people and their community to overcome their problems regarding their personal and civilian s lives, seeking a better life for its people and themselves. The results indicate the meaning of this profession as the one which concerns to the human being s existence it self