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The adult education tradition in Portugal is mainly characterized by its absenteeism, due to political and financial disinvestment, and also as a result of one of the longest authoritarian regimes in Western Europe, lasting from 1926 until 1974, which profoundly affected Portuguese people’s access to education.
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Gomes, I., Monteiro, A.A. (2016). “Why Choose One Hand Over the Other When We Can Use the Best of Two?”. In: Evans, R., Kurantowicz, E., Lucio-Villegas, E. (eds) Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities. Research on the Education and Learning of Adults. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-358-2_9
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