The article focuses on the contribution of popular education in the preparation and practice of the social workers. An experiment was carried out with popular university extension about the popular, emancipatory and liberating character in the health care field. It highlights the importance of using popular education to strengthen the theoric-methodological, ethical-political and thecno-operative dimensions of their professional practice, aiming to reassert popular wisdom, respect their autonomy and build alternative intervention with them.
Social Work; Popular education; University extension