This research article seeks to present the concept of popular education as a dynamic of pedagogical tradition and cultural movement, emphasizing its diverse, multidirectional, nondeductive character; that is to say, that there is not a foundational moment in which some general principles, conceptual or doctrinal foundations, were set out, from which subsequent political and pedagogical practices were generated and what there has been is a sort of popular educational field -where there are different perspectives of what is popular.