The purpose of this text is to discuss social-educational practices that aim primarily at job skill formation and, thus, integrate the process of school socialization, which contributes to the disciplining of the young rather than to their education and "liberation". We point out the gap between such practices and the popular education defended by Paulo Freire, revealing the limits and possibilities of an educator formation that operates on the fringes of knowledge production environments. To that end, we based our analysis on the program "Forming Educators in Nonschool Educational Practices" (CNPq), in which we followed up pedagogical meetings of two social-educational projects aimed at the young living in the city of Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brazil.
Nonschool education; Socialeducational practices; Educator formation; Popular education