Reconocimiento de competencias experienciales de adultos, en Portugal (2001-2011): hallazgos y debilidades

Abstract

Based on a PhD thesis and a post-doc project focused on this topic, the authors describe and analyse the programme of skills recognition, validation and certification, as it was developed in Portugal during the first decade of the 21st century, enabling the qualification of more than 5% of the active population. In the first section, this innovative theoretical and methodological framework for adult education and certification is discussed. Secondly, main agents, stages and dynamics of this process are sketched. In a third section, the main results of the programme’s national evaluations are synthetized. And in the fourth one, key social dynamics observed through qualitative research are underlined. In the conclusions, programme’s achievements and failures are systematized and some remarks for future interventions in this field are sketched.