Os paradoxos da educação: uma reflexão crítica sobre a escola e a sociedade

Abstract

Low educational levels, high taxes of students that drop out of school or fail to succeed, and difficulties to get the first job constrain Portugal to a particularly unfavorable stand when one contrasts those data to other countries’ that are our partners in the European Union. Causes are many and have been amply discussed, and it known today that they are not a sole outcome from shortcomings of institutions that are entrusted with the development of youngsters such as schools, community, hiring businesses or promoters of leisure activities, but rather all of them together. With this intervention one seeks to address some issues considering the agent behind educational processes, specifically those issues related to the environment where they are engendered.