Formação e inclusão ou quimera e discriminação

: uma reflexão sobre os cursos vocacionais em Portugal

Abstract

Mass education has brought to schools a great variety of individuals with different backgrounds and ambitions. Confronted with this reality, School had to create new strategies and solutions to ensure a policy of equal opportunities. With the extension of compulsory education, together with the danger of school failure and school dropouts, there comes the need to diversify the educational offer in order to provide alternative educational paths. Vocational courses have been created in order to address these problems. The main issue at hand is to understand to what extent these courses will serve its purpose, and truly contribute to youth education, by ensuring equal integration, or if they are a mere attempt to prove (in an international context) that there is currently a higher investment in Education in Portugal. The aim of this study is to analise both the advantages and disadvantages of these courses. We will also try to understand if the ideology supporting their creation is in fact being respected and how schools organize to answer this challenge. Finally, we will evaluate the results of these policies by studying their implementation in a specific group of schools.

Date of Award	13 Jun 2016
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Carlos Alberto Vilar Estevão (Supervisor)