ABSTRACT This article presents a cartography of the field of research in adult learning and education (ALE) via a comparative study of academic production at doctoral level in Spain and Portugal based on a systematic documentary analysis of the summaries of doctoral theses concluded between 2006 and 2018. The aim is to advance the state of the art of research on ALE in recent doctoral theses in both Countries and highlight trends of contemporary knowledge construction in the field of continuing education of adults. Two analytical strategies are applied: i) a characterisation of the doctoral theses’ abstracts by a constructed grid with general and specific categories; and ii) a quantitative strategy of identifying frequencies in the grid for 18 keywords, 6 frameworks and paradigms and 12 associated to concepts. The mapping of priorities and absences in doctoral research at Higher Education Institutions (HEI) demonstrate that in Spain, there is a tendency to present the role of ALE closely related to assisting individuals and groups to adapt to the educational system, to society and to labour demands. In Portugal an unresolved tension between the adaptation of adults to society through ALE and the conscientization of adults by ALE to transform society remains.

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西班牙和葡萄牙的成人学习与教育：博士论文的解释性研究（2006-2018）

摘要 本文基于对 2006 年至 2018 年间完成的博士论文摘要的系统文献分析，通过对西班牙和葡萄牙博士水平学术成果的比较研究，展示了成人学习和教育 (ALE) 研究领域的制图。 . 目的是推动两国近期博士论文中 ALE 研究的最新进展，并突出当代成人继续教育领域知识构建的趋势。应用了两种分析策略：i）通过具有一般和特定类别的构造网格来表征博士论文的摘要；ii) 确定网格中 18 个关键字、6 个框架和范式以及 12 个与概念相关的频率的定量策略。高等教育机构 (HEI) 博士研究中优先事项和缺勤的映射表明，在西班牙，ALE 的作用与帮助个人和团体适应教育体系、社会和劳动力密切相关。需要。在葡萄牙，成年人通过 ALE 适应社会与 ALE 使成年人自觉化以改造社会之间的紧张关系仍未解决。