Paradigms of intervention and social pedagogy: from biomedical social work to socio-educational, mediating and empowering intervention

Faced with the classic model of social intervention that starts with the diagnosis of "social problems", approaching the work of the doctor, which is so often classified as a biomedical paradigm, there emerges today an alternative model more concerned with change, transformation, education and empowerment of the subjects and communities involved, here called socio-educational intervention, based on social pedagogy and intercultural mediation. The text begins by presenting the classic paradigms of socio-educational change, criticizes the social intervention palliative and based on diagnoses performed by specialists without recourse to the voice of the subjects, and ends up pointing to a mediator and empowering social intervention based on social pedagogy and intercultural mediation as fundamental pillars of social education.