Abstract
Based on a semi-directive interviews and observations survey, this article examines the apprenticeship training system for two specialised education professions, that is, specialised educator and monitor educator. After contextualising the special education sector and placing the respondents in a process of professional socialisation in the world of work and the social professions, we will analyse the pathways to professional integration and the construction of professionalism. Here, occupational integration is studied as a long-term process, part of a career path marked by effects of proximity, (to the world of work and to the health and social field).