The first congress of the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences (SPCE) took place in 1989 in Porto. SPCE was formally constituted after that, in May 1990, and will soon be thirty-five years old. This anniversary coincides with the Democratic Revolution, which marked the hope for a fairer, freer and more developed country. Education will be one of the most important and successful endeavours on the road to freedom, to being and knowing, to emancipation and social justice. It is the conditions and importance of freedom and democracy in education and social progress that we now want to make more visible, conscious and intentional, balancing memory, experience, theorising, intervention and criticism. We want the analysis and discussion that can be generated in collaboration and partnership between research centres and institutions of higher and non-higher education, formal and non-formal education, to celebrate and clarify past paths and inform and inspire future paths.

It is to this intersection between the past and the future, but always on the side of freedom, emancipation and social justice, that we invite you to the seventeenth SPCE Congress under the slogan Education, Freedom and Democracy.

The SPCE Board

All info HERE.