The following text presents a reflection on the training paths of social educators in Brazil and Portugal. In the Portuguese context, social educators already have the guarantee of a training course at a higher level. In Brazil, these workers are still in the process of requiring specific regulations for their profession, as well as ensuring their training process in a university degree. The methodological approach that is guiding this reflection is the Comparative Social Pedagogy, which makes it possible to draw up elements that come close to or distance from realities around the focus of reflection on the training of social educators. In the case of Brazil, the training of social educators has been carried out mainly through extension projects linked to higher education institutions. In the case of Portugal, the training takes place at a higher level and social educators already have a professional perspective that distinguishes them from other professionals, a process built through an organised professional group.