This article, which considers street education as a sociocritical methodology that gives young people at risk access to social services and a participatory role in the cultural environment, reflects on two relevant aspects of this educational practice: the place of development (the city, the streets) and the methodology as seen through other disciplines, such as urban anthropology and literature. Thus, the concept of “urban culture” studied by Professor Manuel Delgado (Barcelona, 1956) and the figure of the “flâneur” attributed to the life and work of French poet Charles Baudelaire (Paris, 1821–Paris, 1867) become, on this occasion, an interpretive framework with which to continue building a theoretical corpus of the street educator profession that preserves the educational model in the broadest possible sense and avoids social control.
Keywords
Street education, Baudelaire, flâneur, Manuel Delgado, urban culture, street educator
