Globalização, europeização e especificidade educativa portuguesa: A estruturação global de uma inovação nacional

This article explores some relations between the processes of globalization and the elaboration of national education policies. It seeks to understand the way in which the process of European integration became a relevant context for the formulation of a specific measure of education policy – the creation of a subsystem of Vocational Schools in Portugal in 1989. This innovation is also the expression of a national political agenda for education which is full of dilemmas and, as the author tries to show, undoubtedly shaped by the conditions, challenges and solutions of the Portuguese educational reality at the time