Teaching obligation in Portugal: a challenge to the social inclusion

Abstract

The researcher Ana Cabrera, PhD in Political and Institutional Contemporary History and teacher in the Liceu Passos Manuel, central school in Lisbon, talks on the changes in Portuguese Education with the teaching obligation, that forces schools to receive all youngs in school age. For the educator, school has a fundamental role in social change and the challenge presented to teachers is how to take charge of the inclusive teaching as a real opportunity for youngs and children manage to displace from the adverse social situation in which their families live. She worries on how to reach those objectives considering the acceleration of changes that occurred in Portuguese society along last 20 years and how to adequate teachers capacitation for this reality.