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This paper presents an analysis of the examination of Portugal’s education policy conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1987 as well as of its role in the legitimation of a new vocationalism. In particular, the focus is on the key recommendation put forward in the examiners’ report regarding the investment in the initial professional qualification of young people and its relation with the creation, in 1988, of a new administrative body within the Portuguese Ministry of Education tasked with coordinating the system of non-higher education in the area of technological, artistic and professional education. The results of our analysis suggest that it was this examination by the OECD that effectively paved the way for the renascence of professional education in Portugal, but now rethought and redefined as a socially regulated, extended and grounded form of vocationalism.
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This page is a summary of: The OECD again: legitimization of a new vocationalism in the educational policies in Portugal (1979–1993), Paedagogica Historica, June 2021, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2021.1941143.
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