Аннотация:The author sustains his argumentation in the defense of a interrelationship field between communication/education, through scholars, philosophers, educators, communications students, who have produced analyses about contemporaneous reality and the relation of Human and Social Sciences with Education and Communication, having as a starting point the current importance of communications. Theoretically based, the author aims at demonstrating how the performance field for educommunication has been being set up. He also mentions the research that has been made on the profile of the professionals and researchers who perform in he area, developed by the ECA/USP Núcleo de Comunicação e Educação (Communication and Education Nucleus), between 1997 and 1999, and presents the lineout of the communication/education field in Latin America.
