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A massificação do ensino fez chegar às escolas uma multiplicidade de
indivíduos com vivências e ambições muito díspares e a Escola, confrontada com esta
realidade, foi forçada a agir de modo a proporcionar a todos uma igualdade de
oportunidades.
Com o alargamento da escolaridade obrigatória, e o espectro do insucesso e do
abandono escolar a pairar, surge a necessidade de diversificar a oferta, proporcionando
percursos educativos alternativos. Os cursos vocacionais surgem no seguimento dessa
ideia.
A questão que se impõe é perceber se estes cursos servirão o seu propósito e
constituirão verdadeiramente um meio de formação dos jovens, incluindo-os com
equidade no sistema educativo ou se porventura não passarão de uma tentativa de,
preocupados unicamente com o olhar atento do Mundo, passar a ideia de que a aposta
na educação em Portugal está a aumentar, contribuindo para uma melhoria dos níveis de
escolarização e de qualificação da população, quando a realidade pode muito bem ser
ligeiramente diferente.
Os objetivos deste estudo são analisar os prós destes cursos e tentar perceber se a
filosofia subjacente à sua idealização estará ou não a ser respeitada, compreender de que
modo as escolas se organizam para responder a estes desafios e, finalmente, percecionar
possíveis resultados da sua implementação num Agrupamento de Escolas em particular.
Mass education has brought to schools a great variety of individuals with different backgrounds and ambitions. Confronted with this reality, School had to create new strategies and solutions to ensure a policy of equal opportunities. With the extension of compulsory education, together with the danger of school failure and school dropouts, there comes the need to diversify the educational offer in order to provide alternative educational paths. Vocational courses have been created in order to address these problems. The main issue at hand is to understand to what extent these courses will serve its purpose, and truly contribute to youth education, by ensuring equal integration, or if they are a mere attempt to prove (in an international context) that there is currently a higher investment in Education in Portugal. The aim of this study is to analise both the advantages and disadvantages of these courses. We will also try to understand if the ideology supporting their creation is in fact being respected and how schools organize to answer this challenge. Finally, we will evaluate the results of these policies by studying their implementation in a specific group of schools.
Mass education has brought to schools a great variety of individuals with different backgrounds and ambitions. Confronted with this reality, School had to create new strategies and solutions to ensure a policy of equal opportunities. With the extension of compulsory education, together with the danger of school failure and school dropouts, there comes the need to diversify the educational offer in order to provide alternative educational paths. Vocational courses have been created in order to address these problems. The main issue at hand is to understand to what extent these courses will serve its purpose, and truly contribute to youth education, by ensuring equal integration, or if they are a mere attempt to prove (in an international context) that there is currently a higher investment in Education in Portugal. The aim of this study is to analise both the advantages and disadvantages of these courses. We will also try to understand if the ideology supporting their creation is in fact being respected and how schools organize to answer this challenge. Finally, we will evaluate the results of these policies by studying their implementation in a specific group of schools.
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Políticas educativas Cursos vocacionais Formação Inclusão e organização escolar Educational policies Vocational courses Formation Inclusion and school organization