Abstract

ANTUNES, Fátima. Re-configuration of the State and Education: New educational institutions and processes. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2005, n.5, pp.37-62. ISSN 1645-7250.

In the area of education (and social policies), some changes of last decades translate either into a redefinition of educational (and welfare) services and the role of the State in their governance or into the emergence of new configurations of education participation in social regulation. A case study about the Vocational Schools subsystem, created in 1989 in Portugal, allows us to identify some of those recent alterations and to propose some interpretations about their meanings. The analysis of the development of that schooling modality and of some of the guidelines and practices developed in two Vocational Schools suggests that that innovation evidences the experimentation of new educational institutions and processes related to the formation of another regulation mode - distinct from the one that has been defined as fordist and in which the development of Welfare State model(s) has taken place.

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