Towards a tropical education: Ideas about sociocultural animators formation

© 2019, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,Faculdade de Educacao. All rights reserved. As cultural management discovers its most communitarian dimension near to Latin American popular Education, the studies on the popular fests and the carnival takes on meaning not only as intangible heritage, but as places for the development of cultural and communicative competences to be included in the profile of cultural managers. I recover the experience of a course on Sociocultural animation – part of an undergraduate course on cultural management. It suggests ways to promote cultural changes that far from disseminate norms and folklorize the diversity, contribute to the survival of peoples that can determine or influence their own destiny, creating it – even though symbolically – again.