La educación social penitenciaria: ¿de dónde venimos y hacia dónde vamos?

Abstract

The Prison Social Education, opened a way as a domain of study and action by identity and unquestionable strengths, not only for its urgency and its need, its indispensability, but for the evolution and revolution that it has generated in the prison Spanish ennvironment; in spite of the survival of traditional approaches orientated towards the punishment and the therapy like intervention forms in the social- educational field. This paper analyzes the evolution of the action and conditions of the question in contexts of confinement and privation of freedom, it studies the practice of the programs called "social-educational" and it offers basic limits for the intervention. In the same times, it presents contributions in the identification, definition and classification of the theories and interventions in the field and; specially, it bases a newly emergent social- educational model (ESM) of thought and action in the prison environment.