Social education at school: an updated review

Abstract

This review article tries to answer the question of whether there is the need to incorporate social education professionals into the educational system, as has already been done in some Autonomous Communities in Spain. For this purpose, a systematic review of the literature (SLR) of 56 articles published in open access, from January 2000 to August 2020, has been carried out in the databases: Scopus, Dialnet, Web of Science, Redalyc and Scielo. The validation was based on the extended criteria of the University of York. The findings reflect that, in a changing society, where the interaction of the school with its social environment is increasingly decisive in the development and training of students, the role of social education professionals is essential from the approach of inclusive and comprehensive education in the educational system. The conclusions and discussion show that their role and tasks are fundamental and that, following the recent Organic Law for the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents against violence, which incorporates the figure of the welfare and protection coordinator in schools, it would be necessary to integrate the role of these professionals in all schools by means of this figure.