A educação de adultos em Portugal e os traços da política global em tempos de austeridade

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Rosanna
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11969
• topic: Adult education and training; Educação e formação de adultos; Reconhecimentode adquiridos experienciais; Política global neoliberal; Austeridade; Recognition of prior learning; Neoliberal global policy; Austerity

In this article we make a reflection around conjectural conditions and supranational influences that allowed the emergence in Portugal of a new adult education and training (EFA). A discussion of the two national political programmes that stablish the XXI EFA agenda is made, mainly the i) Programa de Acao S@ber+: Programa para o Desenvolvimento e Expansao da Educacao e Formacao de Adultos, 1999-2006; and the ii) Programa (ou Iniciativa) Novas Oportunidades, 2006-2012. In both political frameworks the experiential learning is valued, and recognition of prior learning represents the basis for the EFA system. We argue this represents a step forward in terms of social justice since the adult population in this Country is low qualified but mainly sub certified in front of the experiential knowledge they have. We critical analyse, as well, the impact of the hegemonic political global paradigm of politics for statistics on the development of EFA, as far as the essence of the field is hardly compatible with the instrumental training of human resources. Finally we discuss recent evolutions of the new neoliberal governance that creates and imposes several austerities from the impact it had on the Portuguese EFA case.