Práticas emergentes em Psicologia Escolar: a media？？o no desenvolvimento de competências dos educadores sociais

discussing the possibilities of school psychology acting in the context of education is still a theme of current reflection. the non-governmental organizations (ngo′s) arise into the scenario of the third sector as a new social sphere that approaches the civil society directly to the social demands and, in this case, to those from the educational area. at this juncture, there are the educators with professional profile yet ill-defined and not prepared for the challenges of everyday spaces to combat social exclusion. this article addresses the relevance of the continuing education of educators from the mediation of the school psychologist, based on theoretical and conceptual basis of historical-cultural psychology. initially, we offer a brief historical discussion of the first relations between psychology and education in brazil. then we present some factors that inaugurate the third sector in the country, specifically the contexts of educational ngo′s, signalizing the emergence of the professional social educator. finally we approach the possibilities for the school psychologist to act favouring the development of abilities of the educators involved in the non-formal context of education.