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- Formação contínua de professores : contributo para compreender as lógicas de ação dos centros de formação das associações de escolasPublication . Vicente, Lília Maria Lopes dos Santos; Alexandre, Fernando Manuel da Silva; Alves, José MatiasIn Portugal, attending CPD activities is a mandatory requirement for teachers to progress in their careers. But the need to obtain the necessary credits conferred by training activities seems to emerge as a factor that limits the purpose of CPD and can often override the real need for professional development. It is therefore unclear whether the objectives of CPD are limited by the career, or whether it is the teachers who, as a result of a context and/or career management practice, have given CPD a more reductive role. In this context, there seems to be a problem in the fact that the government's emphasis on CPD doesn't seem to be reflected in the effects it produces, either in terms of the needs defined by the teachers themselves or in terms of the more immediate objectives of education policy. This perception seems to stem from the choices made in the training plans drawn up by their promoters, which justifies, on the one hand, the need to know their role as inducers of training content and logic and, on the other hand, to know to whom and for what these organisations are accountable. Assuming that the CPD Plans designed by each School Training Centre (CFAE) are capable of merging the needs expressed by teachers, the school clusters, as well as those that emerge from educational policy frameworks (both nationally and internationally), this research aims to study (i) the process through which CPD needs are identified; (ii) how CFAE decode and merge the CPD needs identified by the different actors and stakeholders; (iii) how the CPD plans designed by CFAE operationalise the needs that emerge from the different levels of political decision making (e. g. national policies and international recommendations), and those identified by schools and teachers; and (iv) how effectively the CPD plans fulfil the needs identified at the various levels. This study was carried out within the framework of an interpretative paradigm, with a qualitative approach that sought to apprehend and explore the meanings attributed to the object of study by the different actors. The data collection process was based mainly on documentary analysis and a questionnaire survey. Document analysis was carried out using content analysis according to pre-defined categories. In order to increase the reliability of the analysis of the findings, the data was subjected to triangulation processes. Ethical considerations included informed consent and confidentiality. This study led to the conclusion that the CPD plans drawn up by the CFAE show a disconnect between discourse and practice. The factors that justify this incongruity are diverse in nature and deeply interconnected, highlighting political and bureaucratic regulatory logics that conflict with the real needs of teachers and schools. It was concluded that the CPD should not only be analysed as a set of administrative and political processes, but as an arena of interaction between various agents where tensions between normative prescriptions and institutional practices are manifested. Analysing the interrelations between the macro, meso and micro levels reveals that the coherence of the CPD system cannot be taken for granted, but rather requires an understanding of the dynamics that regulate its configuration and implementation. These dynamics allow us to foresee how the different players manage the tension between the ideal, the necessary and the possible.