Abstract

LIMA, Licínio C.. Does Education Make Everything? Critical pedagogy in the “learning society”. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2010, n.15, pp.41-54. ISSN 1645-7250.

Speeches apologetic about the all-powerful learning and education throughout life are reproduced and replayed in various policy documents of the European Union and other international agencies. Its focus is the functional adaptation to individual learners’ employability, flexibility and economic competitiveness in the context of “learning society” and “knowledge economy”. After analyzing the rationale of lifelong learning, geared to the acquisition of skills and abilities, the author concludes that its main arguments and criticisms against the modern pedagogy are often based on assumptions pedagogies, whether economistic, and exaggerated beliefs in the power of education and learning.

Keywords : Lifelong Learning; the learning society; skills for economic competitiveness; pedagogy.

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