The emptying of the social in the aims of education and Social Pedagogy as a training alternative in Brazil

This article discusses the importance of Social Pedagogy as a critical alternative to the emptying of social purposes in Brazilian education, influenced by the neoliberal advance in recent decades. Thus, it analyzes the conceptions regarding educational purposes in our country, especially between the years 1990 and 2020. Moreover, the objective is to present Social Pedagogy as a field that opposes the emptying of the social and critical sense of education, promoting a vision of social emancipation. The methodology of this article involves a bibliographic review and theoretical analysis of the Brazilian educational scenario, based on authors such as Roberto Leher, Luiz Carlos de Freitas and José Carlos Libâneo, to treat about changes in the purposes of contemporary education, and Geraldo Caliman and Roberto da Silva, in the field of Social Pedagogy. It concludes by highlighting the theoretical dispute between neoliberal and socio-critical views, presenting Social Pedagogy as an alternative to promote a critical and emancipatory education.

Keywords
Brazilian education; social function of education; Social Pedagogy.