Formación para la inclusión socialMenciones y optativas en el grado de Educación Social en España. Estudio comparado

Resum

One of the professionals working for the elimination of any type of exclusion, both individuals and groups, is the social educator, is a recent profession and also recently trained mostly in countries in the South of Europe. In Spain, for example, it comes to the University in 1991 with the creation of Diplomatura in Social Education (3 academic years). In these countries, whit less developed soical services than in the rest of Europe, is a figure not specialized enough that it may professionaly envolved in various fields and it must go specializing later as he works (Senent, 2011). Currently, after the process of European convergence, training focuses on a Degree of 240 ECTS (4 academic years) and specialization in the qualification is acquired, mainly through the optional subjects and practices. Focused on the optional subjects, presents a comparative study of all public university centers that offer the degree of Social Education in Spain during de year 2017-2018 (N=33) whose comparative variables have been: the existence or not the mentions to title; the total credits of optional subjects; the number of optional subjects; the distribution of the optional subjects throughout the different levels; and the total of optional subjects are offered by centre. It concludes with very significant differences, specially in the existence or not of mentions, the total number of optional credits, and the total of optional subjects offered by center.