Реферат: Education System In Honduras
Реферат: Education System In Honduras
REPORT
“EDUCATION
SYSTEM IN HONDURAS”
PLAN
I. State
of the Honduran education system.
II. Structure
of the Honduran education system:
1.
Pre-school education
2.
Primary education
3.
Secondary education
4.
Higher education
5.
Adult education and professional training
III. Current
trends in education.
STATE
OF THE HONDURAN EDUCATION SYSTEM
Honduras
lacked a national education system until the late 1950’s. Before the reforms of
1957, education was the exclusive privilege of those who could afford to send
their children to private institutions. The government of Ramуn Villeda Morales
(1957-63) introduced reforms that led to the establishment of a national public
education system and began a school construction program.
Data
from the Program for the Development of the Organization of the United Nations
(PNUD) reveal today that 51% of the matriculates finish primary school, in an
average of 9.4 years, and that the number of dropouts increases each year. The
acutest problem is that the basic educational system only covers 86.5% of
school-age children, while the remaining 13.5% cannot get access to the
education.
Although
the Honduran Constitution formally stipulates that minors have to have their
educations taken care of, many arrive at adulthood without learning to read or
write, while the state tries to justify this by the insufficiency of resources
at its command. Illiteracy encompasses more than half a million people in this
country, which is the equivalent of the entire population between 15 and 40
years old. Good education is still largely the privilege of the few who can
afford to send their children to private institutions.
Statistical
information shows that the state of the public education system remains poor.
Figures cited by the Ministry of Education suggest that Honduras suffers from
widespread illiteracy (more than 40 percent of the total population and more
than 80 percent in rural areas). A significant percentage of children do not
receive formal education.
The
statistics collected by the Ministry of Education reflect that no department in
Honduras reaches, on average, the six-year minimum of primary education.
According to recent data indicating educational efficiency, for every thousand
graduates of the first grade in 1990, only 292 (29%) complete primary school in
six years and 468 (46%) never finish. The situation with universities is much
more worrying, since only 20% avoid failing out in universities such as the National
Autonomous University of Honduras (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras,
or UNAH).
The
quality of instruction in Honduran public schools is greatly impaired by poor
teacher training. The situation is worsened by the extremely low wages paid to
teachers, lack of effective and up-to-date instruction materials, outdated
teaching methods, poor administration, and lack of physical facilities.
Because
of the deficiencies of public education, the years since 1970 have seen the
proliferation of private schools. With few exceptions, however, private education
is popularly viewed as a profit-making enterprise. Great skepticism remains
regarding the quality of the education that private schools offer.
The
UNAH is the primary institution of higher learning. Located in Tegucigalpa, it was
founded in 1847 and became an autonomous institution in 1957. The university
has approximately 30,000 students. There are two branches of the UNAH in San
Pedro Sula and La Ceiba.
President
Ricardo Maduro is attempting the change the educational system, but at the
current rate of reform it would take at least 23 years to reach the level of
the educational system in other nations in the area like Costa Rica and Panama.
Evaluations performed by international organizations denounce the backwardness
of the state’s investments in the sector with respect to the majority of
countries in the region, and that the current educational model has reached its
limits after more than a decade in Honduras.
STRUCTURE
OF THE HONDURAN EDUCATION SYSTEM
ISCED level
|
Name
|
Ministry Responsible
|
Pre-school |
Educacion Pre-basica |
Ministry of Education |
Primary |
Educacion Basica (Grades 1-6) |
Lower secondary |
Educacion Basica (Grades 7-9) including
EDUCATODOS
|
Lower secondary vocational |
Formacion de Oficios (INFOP, Academias) |
Upper Secondary (general) |
Educacion media (academica) |
Upper Secondary (vocational) |
Educacion media (tecnica) |
Tertiary, first stage |
Tecnico universitario (first
certificate, short),
Bachiller Universitario (5A first
certificate, long),
Licenciatura (second certificate),
Maestria (further certificate)
|
National University |
Tertiary, second stage |
Doctorado |
1.
Pre-school education
Pre-school
education covers a three-year period with the aim of adapting children to the
social environment and developing their sensorial and other faculties. The
program tries to provide adequate nutrition, eradicate parasites, vaccinate,
give medical and dental care, and to educate parents in health, nutrition,
hygiene and family welfare. Although planned for children between four and
six-and-a-half years, the government has decided, in view of financial
constraints, to provide these services only for six-year-old children,
especially the less privileged ones. Teachers
for pre-school education are trained at the Escuela Superior del Profesorado.
In
the sixties, the pre-primary schools were concentrated solely in the urban
areas. In the seventies, the system has been expanding to include rural areas.
Because of its financial limitations, the government has decided to stimulate
participation of the private sector in the development of pre-school education.
We
see that the age of children receiving pre-school education in Honduras and in
Ukraine differ. In Ukraine it is not actually set, and children start attending
day nursery when they are 2 years old or go straight to the kindergarten at the
age of 3 or 4. The graduation age is usually 5 or 6. The purpose of the
Ukrainian pre-school education is somewhat similar to the Honduran one – the
main stress is put on introducing children into the society and developing
their communication skills, though much attention is also given to the basics
of reading, counting, etc.
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