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European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults
The aim of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of popular education in the Associação Cultural ... more The aim of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of popular education in the Associação Cultural Moinho da Juventude focusing on the expert by experience and the work in tandem. The expert by experience is someone who has personal life experience of poverty and social exclusion and who has also undergone specific training in these areas. The work in tandem is a work methodology involving two individuals and grounded on the complementarity of knowledge. The empirical data was collected using participatory action research. In conceptual terms, the paper is framed by critical theory and popular education.. The research findings point to diversified and continuing popular education dynamics in the initiatives of this association, managed by residents in several interdependent areas (social, cultural, urbanistic, educational, etc) across a long time period. Its practices are geared towards emancipation and the construction of a more just world, with less inequality. Popular education has...
Revista Brasileira de Educação
RESUMO Este artigo aborda a identidade profissional de educadores de adultos responsáveis pela im... more RESUMO Este artigo aborda a identidade profissional de educadores de adultos responsáveis pela implementação do processo de reconhecimento e validação de adquiridos experienciais em Portugal. A investigação filia-se na metodologia qualitativa, e a análise tem como base as narrativas provenientes de entrevistas biográficas realizadas com 30 educadores de adultos. Os dados empíricos revelam que a identidade profissional desses educadores de adultos encontra-se fragmentada. Nesse sentido, chegou-se a quatro categorias de identidades profissionais: os “psicólogos”, os “professores”, os “educadores” e os “nómadas”. As identidades “psicólogos” e “professores” são construídas a partir da formação de base dos educadores de adultos; a “educadores” é estruturada tendo como base o contexto profissional da educação de adultos; e a “nómadas” é o resultado da forma como alguns educadores de adultos incorporam as incertezas do mercado de trabalho com que se habituaram a lidar.
Educação e Pesquisa
Resumo O texto trata do processo de formação de educadores de adultos responsáveis pela implement... more Resumo O texto trata do processo de formação de educadores de adultos responsáveis pela implementação do reconhecimento e validação de adquiridos experienciais em Portugal. As investigações realizadas neste domínio revelam que, de forma geral, esses educadores não têm uma formação de base específica, no âmbito da educação formal, que os prepare para o desempenho profissional do processo de reconhecimento e validação de adquiridos experienciais, contudo assumem funções que exigem o domínio de metodologias inovadoras e complexas. Deste modo, o texto, ao centrar-se no processo de formação dos educadores de adultos que trabalham no reconhecimento e validação de adquiridos experienciais de adultos pouco escolarizados, visa analisar o modo como eles aprenderam a desempenhar essa atividade profissional. A problematização e a reflexão, apresentadas no texto, são orientadas pelo pressuposto de que a formação é um processo amplo e difuso, que ocorre ao longo da vida, nos múltiplos espaços e t...
Educação & Sociedade
RESUMO O texto problematiza o insucesso escolar numa perspectiva de género, a partir da perceção ... more RESUMO O texto problematiza o insucesso escolar numa perspectiva de género, a partir da perceção de alunos dos ensinos básico e secundário em Portugal. A análise resulta de uma investigação cujos dados empíricos foram recolhidos por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas e de grupos focais. As estatísticas oficiais revelam uma taxa de insucesso escolar maior entre os rapazes, por comparação às raparigas. Todavia, os alunos não refletem, no seu quotidiano, sobre esse fenómeno e naturalizam-no com base em estereótipos de género. A construção de género ocorre em todos os tempos e espaços, incluindo a escola, porém, para os alunos envolvidos nesta pesquisa, o género é construído, sobretudo, no contexto familiar.
26ème colloque de l’ADMEE EUROPE, Oct 7, 2013
Cette étude a le dessein d’analyser la façon dont les éducateurs d’adultes envisagent l’évaluatio... more Cette étude a le dessein d’analyser la façon dont les éducateurs d’adultes envisagent l’évaluation des compétences dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance, de validation et de certification des compétences. La méthodologie qualitative a été utilisée et trente-deux entretiens ont été réalisés aux Professionnels de RVC. Les résultats de la recherche permettent d’affirmer que ces éducateurs d’adultes perçoivent de deux manières leur rôle d’évaluateurs dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance, de validation et de certification des compétences. D’une part, ils revêtent l’habit d’évaluateurs, dans le sens où ils analysent des parcours de vie en établissant des ponts avec les référentiels de compétences. D’autre part, ils centrent l’évaluation sur la phase de validation des compétences en attribuant cette fonction aux formateurs. Indépendamment de la façon dont le rôle de l’évaluateur est accepté par ces éducateurs d’adultes, toute leur activité est empreinte d’une charge relationnelle intense.
International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
This article explores the role of the European Union in defining an adult education policy and th... more This article explores the role of the European Union in defining an adult education policy and the way European countries appropriate those guidelines and implement them in their realities. These policies have been widening and diversifying adult education, creating the necessity of qualifying educational professionals. With the implementation of some adult education political measures, new educational practices were developed and new professional activities were born. This investigation is about the qualification of adult educators working in the processes of recognition of prior learning.
Este estudo enquadra-se numa investigação de âmbito mais alargado integrada num programa de douto... more Este estudo enquadra-se numa investigação de âmbito mais alargado integrada num programa de doutoramento em ciências da educação, cujo objetivo é a análise de uma ocupação profissional ligada à educação de adultos – o Profissional de RVC. Esta ocupação surgiu em 2001, com a implementação dos processos de reconhecimento, validação e certificação de competências. Esta é uma prática educativa recente que permite encarar o adulto como o principal recurso da sua formação (Canário, 2008), e tem lugar nos Centros Novas Oportunidades (CNO). O Profissional de RVC apoia os adultos na identificação dos adquiridos experienciais com base na globalidade do percurso de vida, promovendo a rememoração das experiências de vida, a explicitação das atividades, a escrita, o diálogo, o debate, a cooperação e as relações interpessoais, adotando posturas de animador, educador e acompanhante (Cavaco, 2009). A investigação procurou dar resposta às seguintes questões: Quem são os Profissionais de RVC (em term...
La présente étude a pour dessein d'analyser les processus d'évaluation associés aux profe... more La présente étude a pour dessein d'analyser les processus d'évaluation associés aux professionnels de RVC en tant qu'évaluateurs au cours des processus de reconnaissance, validation et certification de compétences des adultes peu scolarisés. Les professionnels de RVC envisagent de deux façons l’évaluation réalisée dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance et de validation des compétences : d’une part, ils revêtent l’habit d’évaluateurs, dans le sens où ils analysent des parcours de vie en établissant des ponts avec les référentiels de compétences, d’autre part, ils centrent l’évaluation sur la phase de validation des compétences en attribuant cette fonction aux formateurs. La façon dont les professionnels de RVC apprennent à évaluer résulte de processus d’auto-formation et d’hétéro-formation, mais également de la formation expérientielle.
This research focuses on the analysis of the RVC Professionals occupational group (Professionals ... more This research focuses on the analysis of the RVC Professionals occupational group (Professionals of Recognition and Validation of Competencies), which consists in a relatively new area in the adult training/education field in Portugal: the recognition of the experiential learning, taking place in New Opportunities Centres. This study´s main goal is to analyze career paths and forms of identity built by RVC Professionals. It took place in one New Opportunities Centre of Greater Lisbon. The data collection instrument used was a semi-structured interview type. The results led to a broader and profound vision about this occupational group and its tensions.
In this paper, I explore the relationships between adult education and emancipation from the adul... more In this paper, I explore the relationships between adult education and emancipation from the adult educators’ perspective. I’m focusing on data from a PhD research in education, specialization in adult education. Over the last decades there have been changes in the way how adult education has been discussed. During the 1960s and 1970s, education was viewed as a mean to self-development of individuals, as a mean for “learning to be” (Faure et al., 1972); however in recent times education has been conceptualized as “an individual task rather than a collective project” (Biesta, 2006, p. 169). Since the 1990s lifelong learning became the dominant approach, conceptualizing adult education as a tool for the competitiveness and the economic growth in European Union. Education has been reordered around policies and practices that consolidate a liberal-productive model and an utilitarian-instrumental model of organizing educational relationships, processes and institutions (Antunes, 2008). These paper focuses on the way adult educators see adult education and how they see themselves as adult educators. It was used the qualitative methodology focused on conducting biographical interviews to thirty-two recognition of prior learning (RPL) professionals. The analysis of the discourse of adult educators show that they were essentially focused on the development of the work processes of recognition of prior learning and also making adults more qualified and more competitive. The emancipatory character of adult education is absent from their discourses.
The relationship between adult education and development, with development considered in its diff... more The relationship between adult education and development, with development considered in its different understandings, has always been central in research and policy debates. In a strict sense, this relationship has focused on economic growth and the relevance of adult education for the promotion of human capital; however in a wider sense, this relationship has emphasized the different features of development, whether social, cultural, political, civic, ecological, etc., and the enlarged scope of intervention that adult education initiatives and projects may involve. Within this relationship, the UNESCO has played a relevant role implementing several kinds of events, such as the International Conferences of Adult Education, but also the OECD and the European Union have played an important role, even if the understanding of development and adult education of these organizations is mainly centred in social and economic development. Owing to the work achieved by such supra and internat...
Cette étude a le dessein d’analyser la façon dont les éducateurs d’adultes envisagent l’évaluatio... more Cette étude a le dessein d’analyser la façon dont les éducateurs d’adultes envisagent l’évaluation des compétences dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance, de validation et de certification des compétences. La méthodologie qualitative a été utilisée et trente-deux entretiens ont été réalisés aux Professionnels de RVC. Les résultats de la recherche permettent d’affirmer que ces éducateurs d’adultes perçoivent de deux manières leur rôle d’évaluateurs dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance, de validation et de certification des compétences. D’une part, ils revêtent l’habit d’évaluateurs, dans le sens où ils analysent des parcours de vie en établissant des ponts avec les référentiels de compétences. D’autre part, ils centrent l’évaluation sur la phase de validation des compétences en attribuant cette fonction aux formateurs. Indépendamment de la façon dont le rôle de l’évaluateur est accepté par ces éducateurs d’adultes, toute leur activité est empreinte d’une charge relati...
This study is part of a broader investigation integrated in a PhD program in education, whose goa... more This study is part of a broader investigation integrated in a PhD program in education, whose goal is the analysis of a professional activity related to adult education – the RVC Professional. This occupation started in Portugal in 2001, with the implementation of the processes of recognition, validation and certification of competences. This research aims to answer the following questions: Who are the RVC Professionals? What were their previous professional experiences? How did they learn to do all tasks involved? What image they have of themselves? The data gathering technique used was the biographical interview. This research results have revealed that the RVC professionals have academic studies in the social sciences and humanities as their basic training. The learning how to exercise the professional activity is a self-training and hetero-training based learning, but also an experiential training. The RVC professional’s self image is mainly centered on the relationship componen...
Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 2020
This article is a reflection regarding the relational dimensions in the biographical research, ba... more This article is a reflection regarding the relational dimensions in the biographical research, based on the author's experience in the context of a PhD in Education, in the specialty of Adult Training. We start with the biographical research in the field of Educational Sciences, as well as the role that this methodology plays in the creation of the sense of the self. Afterwards there is a description of the methodological procedures used in the investigation, such as the biographical interviews with 32 adult educators. In a third moment we reflect on the relational dimensions of biographical research, based on the author's experience in conducting biographical interviews.
This research focuses on the analysis of the RVC Professionals occupational group (Professionals ... more This research focuses on the analysis of the RVC Professionals occupational group (Professionals of Recognition and Validation of Competencies), which consists in a relatively new area in the adult training/education field in Portugal: the recognition of the experiential learning, tak
European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults
The aim of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of popular education in the Associação Cultural ... more The aim of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of popular education in the Associação Cultural Moinho da Juventude focusing on the expert by experience and the work in tandem. The expert by experience is someone who has personal life experience of poverty and social exclusion and who has also undergone specific training in these areas. The work in tandem is a work methodology involving two individuals and grounded on the complementarity of knowledge. The empirical data was collected using participatory action research. In conceptual terms, the paper is framed by critical theory and popular education.. The research findings point to diversified and continuing popular education dynamics in the initiatives of this association, managed by residents in several interdependent areas (social, cultural, urbanistic, educational, etc) across a long time period. Its practices are geared towards emancipation and the construction of a more just world, with less inequality. Popular education has...
Revista Brasileira de Educação
RESUMO Este artigo aborda a identidade profissional de educadores de adultos responsáveis pela im... more RESUMO Este artigo aborda a identidade profissional de educadores de adultos responsáveis pela implementação do processo de reconhecimento e validação de adquiridos experienciais em Portugal. A investigação filia-se na metodologia qualitativa, e a análise tem como base as narrativas provenientes de entrevistas biográficas realizadas com 30 educadores de adultos. Os dados empíricos revelam que a identidade profissional desses educadores de adultos encontra-se fragmentada. Nesse sentido, chegou-se a quatro categorias de identidades profissionais: os “psicólogos”, os “professores”, os “educadores” e os “nómadas”. As identidades “psicólogos” e “professores” são construídas a partir da formação de base dos educadores de adultos; a “educadores” é estruturada tendo como base o contexto profissional da educação de adultos; e a “nómadas” é o resultado da forma como alguns educadores de adultos incorporam as incertezas do mercado de trabalho com que se habituaram a lidar.
Educação e Pesquisa
Resumo O texto trata do processo de formação de educadores de adultos responsáveis pela implement... more Resumo O texto trata do processo de formação de educadores de adultos responsáveis pela implementação do reconhecimento e validação de adquiridos experienciais em Portugal. As investigações realizadas neste domínio revelam que, de forma geral, esses educadores não têm uma formação de base específica, no âmbito da educação formal, que os prepare para o desempenho profissional do processo de reconhecimento e validação de adquiridos experienciais, contudo assumem funções que exigem o domínio de metodologias inovadoras e complexas. Deste modo, o texto, ao centrar-se no processo de formação dos educadores de adultos que trabalham no reconhecimento e validação de adquiridos experienciais de adultos pouco escolarizados, visa analisar o modo como eles aprenderam a desempenhar essa atividade profissional. A problematização e a reflexão, apresentadas no texto, são orientadas pelo pressuposto de que a formação é um processo amplo e difuso, que ocorre ao longo da vida, nos múltiplos espaços e t...
Educação & Sociedade
RESUMO O texto problematiza o insucesso escolar numa perspectiva de género, a partir da perceção ... more RESUMO O texto problematiza o insucesso escolar numa perspectiva de género, a partir da perceção de alunos dos ensinos básico e secundário em Portugal. A análise resulta de uma investigação cujos dados empíricos foram recolhidos por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas e de grupos focais. As estatísticas oficiais revelam uma taxa de insucesso escolar maior entre os rapazes, por comparação às raparigas. Todavia, os alunos não refletem, no seu quotidiano, sobre esse fenómeno e naturalizam-no com base em estereótipos de género. A construção de género ocorre em todos os tempos e espaços, incluindo a escola, porém, para os alunos envolvidos nesta pesquisa, o género é construído, sobretudo, no contexto familiar.
26ème colloque de l’ADMEE EUROPE, Oct 7, 2013
Cette étude a le dessein d’analyser la façon dont les éducateurs d’adultes envisagent l’évaluatio... more Cette étude a le dessein d’analyser la façon dont les éducateurs d’adultes envisagent l’évaluation des compétences dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance, de validation et de certification des compétences. La méthodologie qualitative a été utilisée et trente-deux entretiens ont été réalisés aux Professionnels de RVC. Les résultats de la recherche permettent d’affirmer que ces éducateurs d’adultes perçoivent de deux manières leur rôle d’évaluateurs dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance, de validation et de certification des compétences. D’une part, ils revêtent l’habit d’évaluateurs, dans le sens où ils analysent des parcours de vie en établissant des ponts avec les référentiels de compétences. D’autre part, ils centrent l’évaluation sur la phase de validation des compétences en attribuant cette fonction aux formateurs. Indépendamment de la façon dont le rôle de l’évaluateur est accepté par ces éducateurs d’adultes, toute leur activité est empreinte d’une charge relationnelle intense.
International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
This article explores the role of the European Union in defining an adult education policy and th... more This article explores the role of the European Union in defining an adult education policy and the way European countries appropriate those guidelines and implement them in their realities. These policies have been widening and diversifying adult education, creating the necessity of qualifying educational professionals. With the implementation of some adult education political measures, new educational practices were developed and new professional activities were born. This investigation is about the qualification of adult educators working in the processes of recognition of prior learning.
Este estudo enquadra-se numa investigação de âmbito mais alargado integrada num programa de douto... more Este estudo enquadra-se numa investigação de âmbito mais alargado integrada num programa de doutoramento em ciências da educação, cujo objetivo é a análise de uma ocupação profissional ligada à educação de adultos – o Profissional de RVC. Esta ocupação surgiu em 2001, com a implementação dos processos de reconhecimento, validação e certificação de competências. Esta é uma prática educativa recente que permite encarar o adulto como o principal recurso da sua formação (Canário, 2008), e tem lugar nos Centros Novas Oportunidades (CNO). O Profissional de RVC apoia os adultos na identificação dos adquiridos experienciais com base na globalidade do percurso de vida, promovendo a rememoração das experiências de vida, a explicitação das atividades, a escrita, o diálogo, o debate, a cooperação e as relações interpessoais, adotando posturas de animador, educador e acompanhante (Cavaco, 2009). A investigação procurou dar resposta às seguintes questões: Quem são os Profissionais de RVC (em term...
La présente étude a pour dessein d'analyser les processus d'évaluation associés aux profe... more La présente étude a pour dessein d'analyser les processus d'évaluation associés aux professionnels de RVC en tant qu'évaluateurs au cours des processus de reconnaissance, validation et certification de compétences des adultes peu scolarisés. Les professionnels de RVC envisagent de deux façons l’évaluation réalisée dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance et de validation des compétences : d’une part, ils revêtent l’habit d’évaluateurs, dans le sens où ils analysent des parcours de vie en établissant des ponts avec les référentiels de compétences, d’autre part, ils centrent l’évaluation sur la phase de validation des compétences en attribuant cette fonction aux formateurs. La façon dont les professionnels de RVC apprennent à évaluer résulte de processus d’auto-formation et d’hétéro-formation, mais également de la formation expérientielle.
This research focuses on the analysis of the RVC Professionals occupational group (Professionals ... more This research focuses on the analysis of the RVC Professionals occupational group (Professionals of Recognition and Validation of Competencies), which consists in a relatively new area in the adult training/education field in Portugal: the recognition of the experiential learning, taking place in New Opportunities Centres. This study´s main goal is to analyze career paths and forms of identity built by RVC Professionals. It took place in one New Opportunities Centre of Greater Lisbon. The data collection instrument used was a semi-structured interview type. The results led to a broader and profound vision about this occupational group and its tensions.
In this paper, I explore the relationships between adult education and emancipation from the adul... more In this paper, I explore the relationships between adult education and emancipation from the adult educators’ perspective. I’m focusing on data from a PhD research in education, specialization in adult education. Over the last decades there have been changes in the way how adult education has been discussed. During the 1960s and 1970s, education was viewed as a mean to self-development of individuals, as a mean for “learning to be” (Faure et al., 1972); however in recent times education has been conceptualized as “an individual task rather than a collective project” (Biesta, 2006, p. 169). Since the 1990s lifelong learning became the dominant approach, conceptualizing adult education as a tool for the competitiveness and the economic growth in European Union. Education has been reordered around policies and practices that consolidate a liberal-productive model and an utilitarian-instrumental model of organizing educational relationships, processes and institutions (Antunes, 2008). These paper focuses on the way adult educators see adult education and how they see themselves as adult educators. It was used the qualitative methodology focused on conducting biographical interviews to thirty-two recognition of prior learning (RPL) professionals. The analysis of the discourse of adult educators show that they were essentially focused on the development of the work processes of recognition of prior learning and also making adults more qualified and more competitive. The emancipatory character of adult education is absent from their discourses.
The relationship between adult education and development, with development considered in its diff... more The relationship between adult education and development, with development considered in its different understandings, has always been central in research and policy debates. In a strict sense, this relationship has focused on economic growth and the relevance of adult education for the promotion of human capital; however in a wider sense, this relationship has emphasized the different features of development, whether social, cultural, political, civic, ecological, etc., and the enlarged scope of intervention that adult education initiatives and projects may involve. Within this relationship, the UNESCO has played a relevant role implementing several kinds of events, such as the International Conferences of Adult Education, but also the OECD and the European Union have played an important role, even if the understanding of development and adult education of these organizations is mainly centred in social and economic development. Owing to the work achieved by such supra and internat...
Cette étude a le dessein d’analyser la façon dont les éducateurs d’adultes envisagent l’évaluatio... more Cette étude a le dessein d’analyser la façon dont les éducateurs d’adultes envisagent l’évaluation des compétences dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance, de validation et de certification des compétences. La méthodologie qualitative a été utilisée et trente-deux entretiens ont été réalisés aux Professionnels de RVC. Les résultats de la recherche permettent d’affirmer que ces éducateurs d’adultes perçoivent de deux manières leur rôle d’évaluateurs dans le cadre des processus de reconnaissance, de validation et de certification des compétences. D’une part, ils revêtent l’habit d’évaluateurs, dans le sens où ils analysent des parcours de vie en établissant des ponts avec les référentiels de compétences. D’autre part, ils centrent l’évaluation sur la phase de validation des compétences en attribuant cette fonction aux formateurs. Indépendamment de la façon dont le rôle de l’évaluateur est accepté par ces éducateurs d’adultes, toute leur activité est empreinte d’une charge relati...
This study is part of a broader investigation integrated in a PhD program in education, whose goa... more This study is part of a broader investigation integrated in a PhD program in education, whose goal is the analysis of a professional activity related to adult education – the RVC Professional. This occupation started in Portugal in 2001, with the implementation of the processes of recognition, validation and certification of competences. This research aims to answer the following questions: Who are the RVC Professionals? What were their previous professional experiences? How did they learn to do all tasks involved? What image they have of themselves? The data gathering technique used was the biographical interview. This research results have revealed that the RVC professionals have academic studies in the social sciences and humanities as their basic training. The learning how to exercise the professional activity is a self-training and hetero-training based learning, but also an experiential training. The RVC professional’s self image is mainly centered on the relationship componen...
Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 2020
This article is a reflection regarding the relational dimensions in the biographical research, ba... more This article is a reflection regarding the relational dimensions in the biographical research, based on the author's experience in the context of a PhD in Education, in the specialty of Adult Training. We start with the biographical research in the field of Educational Sciences, as well as the role that this methodology plays in the creation of the sense of the self. Afterwards there is a description of the methodological procedures used in the investigation, such as the biographical interviews with 32 adult educators. In a third moment we reflect on the relational dimensions of biographical research, based on the author's experience in conducting biographical interviews.
This research focuses on the analysis of the RVC Professionals occupational group (Professionals ... more This research focuses on the analysis of the RVC Professionals occupational group (Professionals of Recognition and Validation of Competencies), which consists in a relatively new area in the adult training/education field in Portugal: the recognition of the experiential learning, tak
Este texto tem como objetivo refletir sobre os contributos que advêm da prática profissional no â... more Este texto tem como objetivo refletir sobre os contributos que advêm da prática profissional no âmbito da educação de adultos. Na análise das contribuições originadas no âmbito do desenvolvimento de práticas profissionais no campo da educação de adultos são usados dados empíricos recolhidos numa investigação de natureza qualitativa, inserida num projeto de doutoramento em Educação, especialização em Formação de Adultos. Os dados empíricos são provenientes de entrevistas biográficas realizadas a educadores de adultos a trabalhar em processos de reconhecimento, validação e certificação de adquiridos experienciais, com formação de base na área da docência e experiência profissional anterior no ensino de crianças e jovens dos ensinos básico e secundário.
O reconhecimento, validação e certificação de adquiridos experienciais é uma prática educativa assente na valorização dos percursos de vida dos adultos e das aprendizagens decorrentes de processos de educação não formal e informal, sendo o adulto o principal recurso da sua formação (Canário, 2006, 2008). O reconhecimento de adquiridos experienciais constitui uma prática educativa inovadora, conjugando uma dimensão pessoal de auto reconhecimento com uma vertente social referente ao “reconhecimento ‘pelo outro’” (Cavaco, 2009, p. 617).
Os agentes educativos entrevistados, ao refletirem sobre a sua prática profissional no âmbito do reconhecimento de adquiridos experienciais, destacam a utilização de práticas pedagógicas mais individualizadas, métodos de trabalho colaborativos assentes no trabalho de equipa, e uma maior satisfação profissional motivada pelo estabelecimento de relações gratificantes com os pares, “o que não é propriamente vulgar numa escola” (Daniel, educador de adultos), e pela repercussão positiva do seu trabalho “pelo facto das pessoas se ganharem a elas próprias” e pelo “impacto direto na vida de cada um dos candidatos” (Tomé, educador de adultos). Há ainda a destacar como contribuição do trabalho em educação de adultos uma maior consciencialização para a promoção do gosto pela aprendizagem dos alunos, quando estes profissionais regressarem ao ensino, no sentido de contribuírem para a diminuição do insucesso e abandono escolar.
Atendendo à natureza do trabalho desenvolvido pelos educadores de adultos e às dinâmicas estabelecidas considera-se pertinente questionar uma possível influência da utilização de práticas pedagógicas mais individualizadas e direcionadas para o aprendente/formando na implementação de práticas de trabalho colaborativo e na obtenção de uma maior satisfação profissional. O trabalho no campo da educação de adultos permitiu a estes agentes educativos refletir sobre as suas práticas profissionais atuais e anteriores no âmbito da educação escolar de crianças e jovens, levando-os a identificar novas metodologias de trabalho e práticas pedagógicas, e a considerar a sua transposição para outros contextos educativos.