01370nas a2200205   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002000043653002400063653001800087653002200105653002900127100002600156245008000182856014700262300001600409490000700425520071200432022002001144                                       d10aCultural Agency10aCultural management10aFests Studies10aPopular Education10aSocio-cultural Animation1 aJavier Lozano Escobar00aTowards a tropical education: Ideas about sociocultural animators formation  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85074104500&doi=10.1590%2f2175-623684912&partnerID=40&md5=68132ab7adfa5813bd3b2379010ba9bb  a84912-849120 v443 aAs 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.  a01003143 (ISSN)