This article analyzes the relationship among education, work and citizenship highlighting the experience of street social education. The focus is the educative experience among educators and street-learning people during the 1990 decade. They build a new concept of citizenship and give a new meaning to work to boys and girls who live in the streets. These educators don't centralize their hope in the role of work to save children. For them, work is just one way to support those kids and young people. There are many opportunities to make their lives better: living together, socializing, playing games, developing artistic abilities. All these ways of learning make possible a new educative practice.
Education; Work; Citizenship; Subjectivity