The economic crisis, the threats on the environment, the violation of human rights, the North/South disparities are at the origin of the development, since a few years, in non-profit organisations mainly, of sociocultural community developers’ specializations in «education to the environment», «intercultural education», «education in human rights», «education in the development of international solidarity». These approaches advocate quite a shape of social transformation towards a more just, more egalitarian, more environmental-friendly world in respect to human being. This communication tries to determine why and how, in theory, sociocultural community development could invest this field of intervention.