Políticas educativas e escola

: análise reflexiva doprocesso da educação e formação de adultos

Abstract

This report constitutes a well-founded reflection on the professional course
developed over the last decade. The professional experience of adult education and training and the research carried out in this area have enabled to deepen our knowledge about the relationship between the European Union and Portugal in the field of educational policies.
This investigation revealed the existence of a structural change in the European
Union educational policies, associated with multidimensional processes related to the phenomenon of globalization and that generated social and economic transformations leading to the reappearance of cultural identities in different parts of the world, influenced in particular by the financial system.
It is considered that we are witnessing the creation of a new worldwide education order with a globally structured agenda for education that has made it possible to perceive how the phenomenon of globalization interferes and is related to education. In this process of transferring national authority to supranational instances, there are processes of regulation that shape and adapt educational systems to global economic imperatives.
School as a complex organization, exposed to the endogenous phenomenon of
globalization, presents different, practical, organizational and administrative rationalities. In this context, the need arises for a conceptual framework capable of clarifying the understanding and interpretation of the various organizational dimensions and of reflecting its identity, as well as clearly distinguishing between normative models and theoretical models that explain the various worldviews that regulate and organize social life according to various paradigms, standards and principles of justice.
Adult education is at the central level of world policies and congruently also in
Portugal, as a response to the problems of globalization in order to eliminate the
"geographies of ignorance", since in the perspective of a knowledge society it is fundamental to promote a learning throughout life for citizen's personal and social development, as well as of the communities where it is inserted.

Date of Award	8 May 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Carlos Estevão (Supervisor)