Abstract

MARTINS, Édio. Educative letter: ambiguities and conflicts . Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2005, n.6, pp.139-151. ISSN 1645-7250.

The concept of local dimension of educational policies and practices (territoriali-sation) is used to mean a broad variety of principles, mechanisms and innovating processes in the areas of planning, construction and management of educational policies which, in general, tend to value the powers of local authorities, to mobilise the local agents (actors) and to take political action adequate to local realities. But territorialisation in itself also entails diversity of perspectives and dynamic trends, ambiguities and cause of conflicts. A Carta Educativa Municipal, an initiative of the Câmara Municipal (Town Council) represents an attempt to overcome those ambiguities and causes of conflict, by means of a lucid, politically consistent and technically accurate reading of social realities, dynamic trends and intervention capacities of the social actors.

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