ABSTRACT In the context of the educational reforms initiated in Portugal in the 1980s, the in-service training of teachers experienced a significant increase, associated both with strong financial backing from the European Union and a logic of supply and demand induced by a legal framework which established a link between training and career progression. This article defends the position that this increase found no equivalence in the transformation of conceptions and practices of training, and even generated an opposing logic to the participatory and emancipatory principles of adult education. Teacher training has predominantly developed as a reflection of the formal and academic model of schooling and influenced by policies of rationalization of educational reforms. In the first sections of this article, the effects of these logics on teacher subjectivities are analysed. Later, alternative conceptions of training are dealt with, considering in-service teacher training in a perspective of adult education and presupposing, in this way, a different relationship between teachers and training.
educational reforms; teacher training; subjectivities