EDUCATIONAL CITIES: a state of the art between 1990 and 2020 and the relationship with formal education

Abstract

This investigation discusses the bibliographic productions on educating cities, according to the movement advocated by the International Association of Educating Cities (IAEC), and its relations with formal, non-formal, and informal education. For this purpose, it identified the bibliographic production in books published in Portuguese, between 1990 and 2020. The research is an exploratory study (TRIVIÑOS, 2006) of the state-of-the-art type, as it aims to map this production seeking to respond to the approximations and distances with the educational theme (ROMANOWSKI; ENS, 2006). The data collection technique was carried out through a bibliographical survey and the search for the works was performed on e-commerce sites, with the descriptors “educating city” and “educating cities”. Eleven works published in Portuguese were found — two of them from Portugal. The works from Portuguese publishers presented great familiarity with the IAEC movement in Barcelona; the other works allude to formal or non-formal perspectives on education. However, one of the books distances itself from the IAEC movement, although it contributes to the research of subjects and city life. For future investigations, it is suggested to raise other questions, arising from the analyzed works.