Socializing dimensions of the curriculum in the perspective of a social pedagogy: some approaches

Abstract

This is a theoretical essay that focuses the potential of the Social Pedagogy referential as a contribution to the debate about human formation through school curriculum. It is considered the conceptual framework of Social Pedagogy as a field of socio-educational knowledges and practices oriented to the development of the sociability of human groups facing the demands and possibilities of the community contexts in which they are inserted. The curricular processes inspired by this referential should consider the political purpose of the school as a key element for cultural socialization that gives meaning to the structuring and practice of curriculum oriented to citizenship training, contrarying what is proposed in the managerial framework of curricular programming that contains schematic and simplistic forms of instrumental or normative content.