Education in Argentina
Education is the key to success. With the gift of knowledge, we are able to do amazing things. The educational system in Argentina is implemented by the Ministry of Education, and is enforced on a national, provincial, and federal level, and by private institutions. The education system is broken down into three major parts in Argentina. The three are Primary, Secondary, and Vocational education. After this there is the Tertiary education. Also, the three priorities that will be discussed will be first and foremost: Get every Child in School, the second would be Improve the Quality of Learning, and lastly there is Foster Global Citizenship.
Step one, and the first priority, is get every child in school. The following list are ways in which students are given the tools and opportunities to get into schools and reach success. These school systems are ways in which they are able to get every child in school, the ability to make education almost free is what helps to limit restrictions when it comes to getting an education.
Their primary education consists of 3, 3-year phases that correspond to middle school, junior, and senior primary school. Once this has been achieved by the students, they have their own decision to continue their education or to stop.
The secondary education is where the student is put into a 3-year Polymodal form, which means that they can pick and choose their own classes for education. This is not yet implemented throughout the entirety of Argentina, but it is growing steadily. There are 3 broad kinds of secondary schools, which are Bachiller which emphasize on humanistic studies, Commercial schools, which mainly focus on everything pertaining to economic sciences, and finally, Escuelas Tecnicas which focuses on technical and scientific education.
The Vocational education which is a schooling system for young people that focuses on technology, and it is designed to allow students to enter more practical occupations upon finishing this schooling.
Lastly, Tertiary education is divided into 3 phases, the first one is a 3-year degree designed for teachers and technicians. This is a higher education opportunity in Argentina. The next one is a 4-6 year degree that is designed for engineering, medicine, and law, which also offers graduate qualifications. The college's state that this type of education is free, but factoring in materials needed, transportation, and accommodations, it is not completely true. Among Argentina, there are 39 state universities, and 46 private schools. The National University of Cordoba is the oldest of them all though dating back to 1613 when it was founded by the Jesuit monks.
Improving the quality of Learning is something that needs to be done in every single country, but unfortunately a lot of countries lack learning materials, qualified teachers, they have an overload of language barriers, hunger and poor nutrition and much more. Argentina in particular has a middle-income, and this follows through to its education system. The quality of education has begun to decline due to the unsuccessful economic growth, lack of funding, and inability to promote appropriate policies. Unfortunately it is not determined if the quality of education is being improved or if it is continuing to decline due to the lack of information given. Their lack of structure in the schooling needs improvement. Attendance is a big factor for helping to ensure students are showing up and trying to be successful.
Lastly Fostering Global Citizenship is the last priority which is extremely beneficial to the students as they mature. The schools, systems, and teachers are designed to allow knowledge of how we think and act for the sake of other humans. The classes that they are able to take first start them off with basic human rights, their duty as fellow citizens to work together and learn how the world works. Lastly they are given a more in depth education as they progress, learning on a technological, abstract, scientific, historical, and mathematical view on all things. This allows their future lawyers, businessmen, and teachers to acquire the knowledge they need to be successful and allow the world to continue to go round. For example below is an excerpt from the Article Layne, H. (n.d.). Making the most of intercultural education. Taylor & Francis online “In this article, I describe an online intercultural citizenship experience in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in Argentina. An action research project on the Malvinas/Falklands war fought between Argentina and the UK in 1982 was carried out in 2012. Through a comparative methodology involving Argentine and English foreign language classes, students develop a critical perspective on texts while they also create an international identification, different from their national/regional identifications. While the existing body of work on intercultural citizenship and criticality in the foreign language classroom is abundant in Europe, North America and Asia, empirical studies hardly exist in this region and one of the questions to be answered deals with the transferability of curriculum research across continents. After a description of the theoretical framework and the project itself, I present student samples and analysis that provide evidence that this intercultural citizenship project was fruitfully implemented for the first time in Argentinean Higher Education in the foreign language classroom. I then outline the significance of the project from the point of view of online intercultural communication and the theory of intercultural citizenship.”
This is an example of the curriculum and designed activities the courses in Argentina have to offer.
Education System in Argentina. (n.d.). Retrieved October 28, 2015.
Argentina. (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2015.
Argentina: Public Policies in Education, 2001–2014. (n.d.). Education in South America : Education Around the World.
Education is the key to success. With the gift of knowledge, we are able to do amazing things. The educational system in Argentina is implemented by the Ministry of Education, and is enforced on a national, provincial, and federal level, and by private institutions. The education system is broken down into three major parts in Argentina. The three are Primary, Secondary, and Vocational education. After this there is the Tertiary education. Also, the three priorities that will be discussed will be first and foremost: Get every Child in School, the second would be Improve the Quality of Learning, and lastly there is Foster Global Citizenship.
Step one, and the first priority, is get every child in school. The following list are ways in which students are given the tools and opportunities to get into schools and reach success. These school systems are ways in which they are able to get every child in school, the ability to make education almost free is what helps to limit restrictions when it comes to getting an education.
Their primary education consists of 3, 3-year phases that correspond to middle school, junior, and senior primary school. Once this has been achieved by the students, they have their own decision to continue their education or to stop.
The secondary education is where the student is put into a 3-year Polymodal form, which means that they can pick and choose their own classes for education. This is not yet implemented throughout the entirety of Argentina, but it is growing steadily. There are 3 broad kinds of secondary schools, which are Bachiller which emphasize on humanistic studies, Commercial schools, which mainly focus on everything pertaining to economic sciences, and finally, Escuelas Tecnicas which focuses on technical and scientific education.
The Vocational education which is a schooling system for young people that focuses on technology, and it is designed to allow students to enter more practical occupations upon finishing this schooling.
Lastly, Tertiary education is divided into 3 phases, the first one is a 3-year degree designed for teachers and technicians. This is a higher education opportunity in Argentina. The next one is a 4-6 year degree that is designed for engineering, medicine, and law, which also offers graduate qualifications. The college's state that this type of education is free, but factoring in materials needed, transportation, and accommodations, it is not completely true. Among Argentina, there are 39 state universities, and 46 private schools. The National University of Cordoba is the oldest of them all though dating back to 1613 when it was founded by the Jesuit monks.
Improving the quality of Learning is something that needs to be done in every single country, but unfortunately a lot of countries lack learning materials, qualified teachers, they have an overload of language barriers, hunger and poor nutrition and much more. Argentina in particular has a middle-income, and this follows through to its education system. The quality of education has begun to decline due to the unsuccessful economic growth, lack of funding, and inability to promote appropriate policies. Unfortunately it is not determined if the quality of education is being improved or if it is continuing to decline due to the lack of information given. Their lack of structure in the schooling needs improvement. Attendance is a big factor for helping to ensure students are showing up and trying to be successful.
Lastly Fostering Global Citizenship is the last priority which is extremely beneficial to the students as they mature. The schools, systems, and teachers are designed to allow knowledge of how we think and act for the sake of other humans. The classes that they are able to take first start them off with basic human rights, their duty as fellow citizens to work together and learn how the world works. Lastly they are given a more in depth education as they progress, learning on a technological, abstract, scientific, historical, and mathematical view on all things. This allows their future lawyers, businessmen, and teachers to acquire the knowledge they need to be successful and allow the world to continue to go round. For example below is an excerpt from the Article Layne, H. (n.d.). Making the most of intercultural education. Taylor & Francis online “In this article, I describe an online intercultural citizenship experience in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in Argentina. An action research project on the Malvinas/Falklands war fought between Argentina and the UK in 1982 was carried out in 2012. Through a comparative methodology involving Argentine and English foreign language classes, students develop a critical perspective on texts while they also create an international identification, different from their national/regional identifications. While the existing body of work on intercultural citizenship and criticality in the foreign language classroom is abundant in Europe, North America and Asia, empirical studies hardly exist in this region and one of the questions to be answered deals with the transferability of curriculum research across continents. After a description of the theoretical framework and the project itself, I present student samples and analysis that provide evidence that this intercultural citizenship project was fruitfully implemented for the first time in Argentinean Higher Education in the foreign language classroom. I then outline the significance of the project from the point of view of online intercultural communication and the theory of intercultural citizenship.”
This is an example of the curriculum and designed activities the courses in Argentina have to offer.
Education System in Argentina. (n.d.). Retrieved October 28, 2015.
Argentina. (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2015.
Argentina: Public Policies in Education, 2001–2014. (n.d.). Education in South America : Education Around the World.