Abstract
The main impact of the state reform has occurred into the former state’s role as an actor that should guarantee the public goods as a result of the Keynesian consensus. Thus, the context today is one of multiple transitions. This brings new senses, frequently contradictory, to the area of adult education and for its mandate. This article shows through the analysis of the emergence of the new adult education and training policy, and its consolidation between 2005 and 2012, that although the complexity involved, the new orientations for this sector have been presented in the public sphere in a simplified way. However some characteristic traces of neoliberal governance are present embedded in an increased framework of Europeanization of public policy.
Adult education and training; Educational policy; Europeanization; Neoliberal governance