Abstract

TEODORO, António  and  ANIBAL, Graça. Education in times of Globalisation. The modernization and hybridism in the educational policies in Portugal. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2007, n.10, pp.13-26. ISSN 1645-7250.

This article offers a reflection on the Portuguese Educational policies and on the discourses which justify them in a period of integration in the European Space, specially in a democratic framing after the Revolution of 1974. It identifies a gradual importance given to the role of the educational system for the economic development. An empirical analysis of the key words in the speeches on education after 1980 explores the existence of a hybrid character that links a contructivist-like orientation in a critical perspective to apologetic discourses of efficiency that associate the utility of education with economic productivity. The article argues that the national context and the meaning it confers to the global modernization model explain why the tendency for the homogeneous model is mitigated by emancipating proposals.

Keywords : Educational policies; Portugal; globalization; modernization; hybridism.

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