Licínio C. Lima

National Correspondent

Class
Letters

Section
3rd Section | Philosophy, Psychology and Educational Sciences

Election

21.06.2022 (Corresponding Member)

Areas of Interest

Education policies; democratic management of schools; participation in educational organisations; adult learning and education

Hyperlinks
https://cied.uminho.pt/pessoa/licinio-c-lima/
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-7987

Profile

He holds a PhD in Education, specialising in School Organisation and Administration, and habilitation in Sociology of Education and Educational Administration from the University of Minho, where he taught at the Institute of Education between 1981 and 2023, and from 1998 as a full professor until his retirement. He was director of the Department of Social Sciences in Education (1991-2005), and also directed the Adult Education Unit (1984-2004), the Centre for Research in Education and Psychology (1994-1997), the Master Course in Education (2003-2006) and the PhD in Educational Sciences (2010-2013). He has taught subjects in the fields of Sociology of Educational Organisations, Educational Administration, Research Methods and Adult Education Policies, and has been a guest professor at universities in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy) and the Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg (Germany).
He was a founding member of the European Society for Research in the Education of Adults, the Paulo Freire Institute of Portugal, the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences, and the Portuguese Forum for Educational Administration. In 1993 he was awarded the Rui Grácio Prize, instituted by the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences under the patronage of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2022 he was elected to the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame (USA). He has published several studies at the request of the Ministry of Education, the Education System Reform Commission, the National Education Council, and has held various scientific and evaluation positions by ministerial appointment. He has led several research teams in projects carried out at home and abroad, and has supervised around a hundred master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral students from various countries.
He is the author of more than two hundred works, published in twenty countries and in seven different languages, including more than thirty books.