The New Opportunities Initiative (NOI) is a national Portuguese program to recognise and accredit prior learning (RPL, APL) and to endow low-skilled adults with upper secondary qualifications, which is defined as the minimum entry threshold to the exercise of a full citizenship in a knowledge-rich society. This book gives an account of the research efforts used in the independent evaluation of NOI, carried out over two and a half years. Based on empirical evidence, this publication comprises seven papers, which were submitted to an extensive peer review procedure. This work contributes to the reflection on innovation processes in lifelong learning policy in Europe. The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) supports the MENON Network [Lambrakis Foundation, Greece; University of Erlange-Nuremberg, Germany; Scienter, Italy; Tavistock Institute, UK; CEPCEP, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Portugal; Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary] and the Study Centre on Peoples and Cultures of the Portuguese Catholic University (CEPCEP) in this endeavour.
The papers are: 'New opportunities' and new government: a paradigm change in policy / Roberto Carneiro; The New Opportunities Initiative: understanding public policy from a diachronic perspective / Maria Amelia Mendonca, Maria Ana Carneiro; Bringing lifelong learning to low-skilled adults: the New Opportunities Initiative / Ana Claudia Valente, Laurenco Xavier de Carvalho, Andre Xavier de Carvalho; Family: a key variable to explain participation in NOI and lifelong learning / Henrique Lopes, Roberto Carneiro; Brand modelling: the citizen perception of a public policy / Carlos Liz, Mariana Machado, Jorge Portugal Rocha; Discussing New Opportunities inside S-D Logic: New Opportunities as a tool of governmental approach for nation value creation / Henrique Lopes; Organisational self-regulation and self-assessment: the case of the New Opportunities centres / Rodrigo Queiroz e Melo, Sofia Reis; NOI evaluation research: final review external experts / Marja van den Dungen, Alejandro Tiana, Claudio Dondi, Joe Cullen, Nikitas Kastis, Walter Kugemann, Fabio Nascimbeni.
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