Abstract

RODRIGUES, Rubens Luiz. From revolution to constitutionalism: an analysis of the proposals for schooling adults in Portugal (1974-1986). Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.25, e020019. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v25.e020019.

This article intends to analyze the proposals of adult schooling in Portugal in the period between 1974 and 1986. The social struggles promoted by the Revolution of April 25, 1974 have strengthened proposals for adult education oriented by world conceptions, values political and socio-cultural traditions of the working class. The critique of the reductionist, supplementary and lightening conception of adult schooling, as well as the permanence of a teaching aimed at the adaptation of the subjects to the demands of capitalist production stand out. The intention was to promote the educational dimension of social practices, allowing the workers’ awareness to be raised to a new level of understanding and facing the challenges and perspectives of overcoming inequalities. In this way, the article is guided by the following question: How did the Portuguese revolutionary process mark the proposals of adult schooling in the recent political history of Portuguese society? Specifically, we approached the proposal to create an Adult Education Subsystem, which was constituted in the period of constitutionalist restoration, which was consolidated with the approval of the Basic Education System Law No. 46/1986. The analysis was developed based on the theoretical and critical production of the field of adult education in Portugal, with reference to its historical and sociological formulations. It is necessary to recognize that adult education can not be reduced, lightened and neglected in and through schooling processes. On the contrary, its historical claims, its social specificities and its political characteristics constitute a reference for the continuity of the struggles and propositions of adult schooling.

Keywords : Adult Education; Schooling; History; Politics; Portugal.

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