The social educator is a specialist in the social field who works with the use of educational strategies in order to promote the training of the subjects in their individuality and in a group.

Its field of action is broad and multipurpose, covering diverse areas and populations. If we attend to the vast array of needs of individuals and groups, to which Social Education responds and work, as well as to the different domains of the same, we will understand the complexity and challenges presented to its praxis.

This evidence reinforces the importance of evaluating the formative processes for learning the profession. On the other hand, it allows us to obtain information of a descriptive nature about the phenomenon under study, whose inductive analysis will allow us to understand the meanings constructed by the students on the profile of the social educator based on their training experience.

In this way, it is intended to produce knowledge that supports changes in teaching-learning practices in this degree. Thus, this research proposes to understand the perspective of students of a degree in Social Education over three years, on how they understand the profession in order to reflect on the training. The questions are respectively; to know what lines of intervention of the social educator the students identify and what their perspective on the professional profile of the social educator.

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