Education network reorganization and the importance of the geographic components in the methodology adopted

Abstract

Over the last century, the Portuguese schooling system suffered strong changes that have been marked not only by the political and ideological nuances observed, but also by the changes that occurred in the demographics and mobility, specially in the second half of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, these changes made the schools inadequate for the beginning of the 21st century, since the current buildings, the vast majority a legacy of the “Plano dos Centenários”, do not respond to the educational challenges of
the present moment. Therefore, it became necessary to make a strategic planning, in order to make the system consistent not only with the current reality, but fundamentally with the expectations for the coming decades.