Horizons in action in the Social Education internship: Re-approaching praxis in times of pandemic

Abstract

The Social Education Internship is a fundamental opportunity for training in context and for the development of a praxis necessary for the development of groups and communities. Adequate to the present times, and limited by this time, during a pandemic, the Internship has been assumed as an opportunity to broaden one's outlook and thoughts, with a more reflexive and critical sense, capable of projecting itself into renewed actions. Starting from a progressively more conscious path, which demanded a permanent questioning of the theoretical-methodological orientations of Social Education and the imbalances of the world around us, we are approaching the understanding of a reality which, during the pandemic crisis, subjected minority groups to a worsening of situations of inequality and social exclusion. A path has been taken that, in its essence, has sought to approach people and their territories in order, in the collective, to give visibility to their voices, to build alternatives, and to transform realities. A path of reflection and action, permeated by distinct moments of closeness and distance, which came to be translated into very significant learning.