PEDAGOGIA SOCIAL E JUVENTUDE EM EXCLUSÃO: COMPREENSÕES NECESSÁRIAS À FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES/UNDERSTANDING THE ASPECTS OF SOCIAL PEDAGOGY AND YOUTH EXCLUSION NECESSARY FOR TEACHERS' EDUCATION

The author seeks to understand the meaning of social pedagogy as a field of reflections regarding the teacher education policy and praxis that broaden the possibilities of social educational practices necessary for youth protagonism. The author emphasizes the bibliographic review and the documentary research, as well as a case study developed during the writing of doctoral thesis. The case study investigated socially vulnerable young subjects residing in temporary accommodations in Natal/RN who relied on the support of social educators. The study revealed that the policies designed to social education of young people in Brazil have historically been dimensioned through the struggle of the social movements; that the most important aspect of the policy for social education is the relative basic social protection of children and young people excluded by the law; that social education policy regarding excluded people approaches the logic of public health attention; that the conceptual, methodological, democratic and formative fragilities in teachers' praxis hinder the functionality of an educational proposal anchored in an intentional process.