Educators of young people and adults with risk of social exclusion. An educational cooperation project for its professionalization

Abstract

The radical changes in social, political and economic nature that are being taking place in the different regions originate large strains that affect society as a whole, especially young people and adults belonging to disadvantaged sectors, preventing them from being inserted in their own community, what leads to situations of social exclusion difficult to overcome without help.
This reality led three institutions, the National University of Distance Education (uned), Spain, the University of La Frontera (ufro), from Chile, and the University of El Salvador (ues), of the Republic of El Salvador, to propose an action to develop a joint program of postgraduate studies led to the formation of social educators specialized in young people and adults with risk of social exclusion.
To do this, the first phase of the project and in order to determine what should be the professional profile of the teachers involved, it was necessary to investigate how people understand and has been carried out the educational intervention in these three Ibero-american countries.
Once the profile delimited and analyzed the educational demands of the players that need to be addressed in each context, it becomes definite inter institutionally the specific design of a joint title of continuous training suitable to meet these needs.
As well, it will be challenged in Ibero-america the implantation of social education studies that credited to professionals working in contact with young people and adults with risk of social exclusion.