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Lima, Licínio C.; Guimarães, Paula – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This paper focuses on recognition of prior learning as part of a national policy based on European Union guidelines for lifelong learning, and it explains how recognition of prior learning has been perceived since it was implemented in Portugal in 2000. Data discussed are the result of a mixed method research project that surveyed adult learners,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Public Policy, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
Kerr, Donna H. – 1993
Institutional solutions to basic questions regarding education cannot be effective, as institutional solutions to problems apply to classes of people, not to individuals. The stories of selves cannot be nurtured by institutions whose purposes are to use people to achieve "greater" ends such as international economic competitiveness. Educational…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education