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SILVA, Ana Maria Costa e. Desafios contemporâneos para a formação de jovens e adultos. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2007, n.29, pp.15-28. ISSN 0104-4060.

The last four decades have been progressively marked by a focus and investment on training, namely for young people and adults, particularly from the 90s of the last century onwards, together with the emphatic and persistent discourse on the importance of lifelong learning-education. From this viewpoint, we will discuss in this article some of the presumptions underlying the discourses on lifelong education and learning. We will try to point out frailties and controversies that have been present, both in the discourses and the practices, and identify some challenges that are posed on the field of training, acknowledging, like Pineau (2004), that the educating moments are too important to be left just to institutionalized education. Thus, we will try to unveil and rehabilitate the point of view of the adult that is being educated and think about the dynamic of the training process that does not limit itself to the sphere of the institutionalization of education. Our analysis and reflexion will focus on the importance of the interaction between training courses and life trajectories, pointing out the relevance of experience in adult learning and in the construction of knowledges. This analysis allows us, as well, to point out the importance and need that the training contexts (both formal and informal) take into consideration the authorship of the individuals involved in/undergoing training, being this a fundamental dimension to their social (self) acknowledgment and (re)construction of identities.

Palavras-chave : Education; Learning; Experience(s); Construction of Knowledges; Identity(ies).

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