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Abstract
Portuguese education continues to be profoundly influenced by an historical tradition in which a strong political and administrative centralisation is prominent. The school ‘autonomy’ that exists has to be conceptualised in largely ‘instrumental’ terms — an autonomy merely of process and of implementation.