L'educatore extrascolastico: identità e ruolo professionale

The transformations in contemporary society involving all professions, from the traditional to the most innovative and recent. social professions, in particular the profession of extra-school educator is the main protagonist of this ridefintion process. Because in this phase will open new spaces to think, to review and to retrain this profession in the workplace and in the society. These processes moreover outlining a new framework in which users are no longer the subject of the intervention, but they are free to choose those to be assisted by increasing their power and reducing the asymmetry with service and its professionals, so we see the transition to an individualized service. The evolution of the services system, the changes and the emergence of new social needs are pressure to rethink the profession of extra-school educator. This paper aims at providing some tentative answers and clarifications about the profession of the extra-school educator. It isn't clear its tasks. In Italy this is a profession in the process of official recognition, since there isn't register or rules that regulate the access or rights. Finally there isn't clarity about the training. For these reasons there is a need to understand what, how and in what direction it has expanded the range of skills and practices of the extra-school educator. The aim is to give a summary of the profession, analyzing the current scene and noting how this figure has changed and where possible will come in the future. This three years research has a double target: to retrace the history and legislation about the profession of the extra-school educator and the social services; and submit the perception about the role and the practices of this profession, that works with different users in Trento.