Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues

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Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues

Maria de Lurdes Reis Rodrigues (born March 19, 1956 in Lisbon , Portugal ), mostly just Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues , is a sociologist and Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party . From March 12, 2005 to October 26, 2009 she was Minister of Education in the Sócrates I cabinet . Then she was replaced by Isabel Alçada .

Rodrigues completed her studies in sociology at the Lisbon Institute for Labor and Business Sciences with a Licenciatura . In 1996 she completed her habilitation at the same institution. Since graduating, she has also lectured at the institute.

Between 1985 and 1989 she was involved in setting up the historical and social archive of the Portuguese National Library. At times she was the official representative in the OECD working groups NESTI ( Working Party on National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators ) and WPIIS ( Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society ). Between 1996 and 2002 she represented the Portuguese state in the Eurostat Working Party of R&D and Innovation Survey . Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues served as President of the Observatório das Ciências e das Tecnologias (Observatory for Science and Technology) of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture from 1997 to 2002 .

After the Socialist Party's victory in the 2005 parliamentary elections, Prime Minister José Sócrates appointed Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues as the new Minister for Education. Rodrigues implemented numerous reforms in the Portuguese education system, including a new evaluation system for teachers according to which salary levels are divided, changes to the status of civil servants, reducing the influence of the teaching staff on the management of the school and at the same time strengthening parents and closing many Schools that have been heavily criticized by both students and teachers. In numerous demonstrations they demand the resignation of the minister. In the two largest demonstrations to date, between 85,000 and 100,000 of the total of 143,000 Portuguese teachers protested on March 8, 2008 and between 100,000 and 120,000 of Portuguese teachers on November 8, 2008 in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, against the reforms of the government. The trade unions do not protest against all reforms per se, but especially against the hasty introduction of the new system that they describe as bureaucratic.

Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues published numerous essays and other works.

Works (selection)

  • 1990: Empresários e Gestores da Indústria em Portugal (entrepreneur and industrial manager in Portugal)
  • 1993: Sociedade, Valores Culturais e Desenvolvimento (Society, Cultural Values ​​and Development)
  • 1995: As Chefias Directas na Indústria (Management in Industry)
  • 1997: Sociologia das Profissões (Sociology of Professions)
  • 1999: Os Engenheiros em Portugal (engineers in Portugal)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maior manifestação de semper na Educação pintou Lisboa de negro ( Memento of the original of March 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [The largest demonstration for education to date colored Lisbon black], in: Público , March 8, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ultimahora.publico.clix.pt
  2. ↑ Milhares de professores vão 'à guerra' ( Memento of March 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), in: Correio da Manhã , November 9, 2008
  3. ^ Mass protest against the school reforms in Portugal , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 9, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Lurdes Rodrigues, Maria de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodrigues, Maria de Lurdes Reis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese sociologist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal