Para uma Pedagogia de Comunidade: o educador social

One of the tasks of education, in its social dimension, is to make possible the construction of a better society. In this perspective, education aims at finding ways to promote individuals who, for various motives, are at the margin of society, closed in their own world and denying social life. The discomfort of these individuals may led them to be confronted to bad situations, like deviancies, drug abuse, alcoholism, etc. Social education have proposals which show ways for integration into society on the base of a new analysis of communitary education. The building of the community, on the base of some assertions from Martin Buber’s philosophy, following some steps, especially about the understanding of the “small words” dynamics which are part of daily life and open perspective of integration. Nevertheless, direct and indirect pedagogicalstrategies which aim to prepare rightly the educator as a home-helper and if it is the case a street educators, are necessary.