Governação, reformas do Estado e políticas de educação de adultos em Portugal: Pressões globais e especificidades nacionais, tensões e ambivalências

This paper traces the development of the mechanism for the recognition, validation and certification of skills as a means of discussing state reforms in the provision of social welfare. It is argued that the Portuguese state, in keeping with the reformist aspirations of the sociopolitical matrix of governance and the managerial state, has created a public supply of adult training and education that is disconnected from a public system, involving contractualization and the foundation of a quasi-market and conditioning the social and human rights of public service producers and beneficiaries. The trajectory is marked by tensions between a multidimensional social policy and a qualificationist, particularist and compensatory policy oriented towards, and in accordance with, the economy. In the ongoing dynamics, education, the state and governance become conflictual and contradictory terrains of struggle in which political confrontation and action take place.

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