Critical Social Pedagogy: a Pedagogical Approach of Good Professional Practices in Territories in Condition of Vulnerability Case Program of Social Work University of Cartagena

Abstract

Critical social pedagogy as a pedagogical proposal, of good practices for addressing problems in restricted territories, seeks to break with traditional forms of education, based on an apparently neutral education, which is characterized by arbitrary and exclusive practices; to strengthen those that improve the development of a reflexive consciousness.The improvement of human development programs with this approach seeks the development of processes of problematization, participation and transformation of contexts in situations of oppression, and social exclusion, for the formation of a critical citizenship, which impacts these territories.From the institutions of Higher Education, critical social pedagogy is a binding alternative for training professionals, social sciences as citizens committed to citizenship based on justice, human rights, equity and coexistence.This article intends to show how the development of professional practices is developed, such as the training process of the Social Work students of the University of Cartagena, from their knowledge and doing, and the contents that these processes have of social education, product of An investigation carried out in two moments 2012 and 2018.