This article presents an analysis of the educational conceptions of the Pedagogy course dimensioned for Educators social formation through history. In this course their identity isn't clear yet. The official documents and some representative entities consider teaching as priority base for formation, others prioritise the Pedagogy professional an education scientist. In the last decades in Brazil, the Popular Education appeared, precedent of the Social Pedagogy, which approaches the work with social groups historically excluded and values the cultural diversity in the Not-Formal Education process. This article makes part of a research that analyses the documents and bibliography productions about the National Curricular Rule for the Pedagogy Course, instituted by the Resolution CNE/CP n. 1 of 05/15th/2006. It is realized on the academic productions analyzed, that exist advances on the meaning of a more social approach in the aspect of the formation in the Pedagogy's courses. But, at the same time, there are incoherences in the base of the vocational training, because the emphasis on the teaching profession restricts its actuation. Those studies revealed that the Education has become itself, even thought superficially, more social and the Popular Education has had the necessity to organize its work in a more educational way. In other words, the Social Pedagogy has appeared as an instrument of the Education to answer the new demands of the society and to form the Social Educator as its transformer agent.
Pedagogy; National Curricular Rule for the Pedagogy course; Social Pedagogy; popular education