Maria Manuel Calvet Ricardo (org.)

Authors, Editors

2011

Year of edition

978-989-8512-03-1

ISBN

Synopsis – [The Portuguese Association of English Teachers – Memories and Testimonies].
"The 1980s were a period of constructing a new political, economic, and sociocultural framework in Portugal across various social sectors and levels. Recently emerged from a political regime that had stifled the country for about four decades, the Portuguese faced the challenges resulting from the change in political regime after April 25th. The social-democratic conceptions of the "State" and "human nature" associated with Keynesian social democracy, then prevalent in Western Europe, became reference points, particularly the "egalitarianism" that aimed to minimize class differences in Portuguese society and the new rights to "well-being" and "education." It is in this context that the associative movement of teachers of a non-union nature emerged, with the Portuguese Association of English Teachers (APPI) being a paradigmatic and unique case of this movement: paradigmatic because, like other disciplinary areas, English teachers joined in a "community of pedagogical-didactic practices" in their area of expertise, and unique because, as I will seek to show, the APPI had specific characteristics." (Maria Emília Galvão)