ABSTRACT
This study analyses professional activism in educational, social and community work with people in vulnerable situations in Portugal. It seeks to contribute to its characterization, particularly regarding the plurality of approaches, through the construction and validation of the professional activism typology scale. By means of descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of the data collected through a survey with 338 participants, it presents a typology consisting of different and highly correlated types of professional activism: collective, individual, specialized and radical. It also points out trends of influence of factors such as sex/gender, years of work and training in professional activism in the involvement with these approaches. The implications for the training of professionals in this domain are underlined.
Keywords
Professional activism; Educational/social/community intervention; Typology; Scale; Political training