How to survive lifelong learning, how to blame policies of the modern world

• Autor(a) principal: Bragança, Ângela
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Castro, José Manuel, Coimbra, Joaquim Luís
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2011.3340

Nowadays it can’t be denied that we are surrounded by a widespread and global discourse, which asserts the crucial importance of promoting lifelong learning. In Portugal, this discourse has taken shape in a strategic policy emphasis on qualification levels, which lead to an also undeniably high financial investment of current policies in the “Operational Programme for Human Potential”, implemented by the “New Opportunities Initiative”. Studies of an external evaluation, developed by the Portuguese Catholic University (Valente, Carvalho and Carvalho, 2009) have shown, however, that although participation in this initiative seems to promote greater availability and capacity for lifelong learning, the gains are more signifi cant in the motivation of adults than in their effective participation in education and training. In the analysis of facilitators or inhibitors of participation in lifelong learning, we proposed the need to develop an integrative theory of multidirectional influences of several variables, distant from an approach that blames only the person for not being participative. It is also suggested the importance of promoting vocational guidance in order to support the individual in managing their learning paths and meaning making processes.