NEW DEADLINE - August 31, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS
ESC – Educação, Sociedade & Culturas Special Issue
Education in Portugal 40 Years on from April 25, 1974
Deadline extended to August 31, 2014

Guest Editors

Luiza Cortesão, University of Porto, Portugal
Roger Dale, University of Bristol, UK
António M. Magalhães, University of Porto, Portugal

Issue Rationale

The April Revolution in Portugal was a unique political achievement in so many ways and not least in the area of Education which has been through major transformations over the period. It represents both an intensely interesting set of events in itself and an example of a very particular case of changing relations between state, society and education politics. The political mandates addressed to educational system and the social demand for formal education have changed radically during this 40 years, as have Informal and non-formal education. From the revolutionary period and the socialist mandate to education to the contemporary individualized approach to education many experiences and lessons are to be analysed and learned from.

Research has identified different periods in policy making and different types of demand for education. During the dictatorship education was widely used as an instrument for social control and political domination. The 1974 Revolution inspired an emancipatory perspective on education, challenging the reproduction theories and promoting social mobility. However, in the last decades the ‘promises’ of equality in access and success of the Revolution were redressed as equity and merit. At different paces and rates, under influence of the global and national social and political environment, the goals of education shifted from social justice to economic relevance.

Although a large body of research and scholarship on the transformations brought about by the Revolution to Portuguese society and in particular to education was produced, after 40 years it seemed important to revisit the paths that drove education, their fluxes and refluxes, to its present processes and structures.

Hence, the purpose of this special issue is to analyse these changes with a focus: (a) on the political rationales that drove transformation in education, in general, and formal education, in particular, with an emphasis on the political basis of decision-making in education; (b) on the relationships between formal and non-formal education (e.g. the recognition by the education system of competences acquired in non-formal educational contexts); (c) on actors (teachers, trade unions, professional and educational associations, students, children, young people and adults) and institutions at different levels (European, national, institutional/schools); (d) on educational perspectives and experiences (e.g. pedagogical approaches such as intermulticultural education and adult alphabetization processes) at different levels (e.g. schools, classroom); (e) on the impacts social movements had (have) in education; (f) on collective and individual memories and narratives relevant for Portuguese education; and (g) on views from non-Portuguese scholars and researchers about the educational development in the last 40 years as related to Portugal.

We welcome a wide range of forms of response – reviews, revisitings, reassessments, reminiscences, as well as more orthodox academic work. April 25 1974 generated changes across many areas, and in many ways, and we hope that this special issue will enable full and appropriate recognition of its unique and continuing significance.

Guidelines for Submission

Manuscripts must be sent by email attachment, in Microsoft Word, to ciie_edicoes@fpce.up.pt. Articles are accepted and published in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish.

In the cover letter, please specify that your manuscript is being submitted for the special issue Education and the 40 Years of April 25, 1974.

Submissions will follow the Journal’s regular blind review process. The guest editors and ESC editor-in-chief will make the final acceptance decisions. Accepted manuscripts that are not included in the special issue (because of space restrictions) will be published in a future issue of the journal.

Authors should carefully make sure that have prepared their manuscripts in accordance with the instructions provided at ESC Webpage.

Articles should be between 6000 and 8000 words in length, including abstracts, keywords, tables, footnotes, reference list, and appendices. Each manuscript should include the title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese, English and French. Understandably, for Spanish articles, the title, abstract and keywords are also displayed in Spanish language.

The submission deadline is August 31, 2014.