BASIC EDUCATION IN MOZAMBIQUE: Conceptual meanings, law and educational policies

Abstract

In this article entitled Basic education in Mozambique: conceptual meanings, law and educational policies we propose to reflect on the meanings of basic education, basic teaching and the right to education enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique. We start from the assumption that the terms basic education and basic teaching denote the basic education that every citizen must have to respond to the challenges of life. However, the term education refers to the activity offered by public and private school institutions and non-formal institutions of society. And education refers to the activity that takes place only in public and private institutions in a systematic way and is monitored and evaluated by the state. We also discussed about the Law 18/2018 of the National Education System that reorganizes the structure of the General Education Subsystem into 6 classes of Primary Education and 6 classes of Secondary Education and establishes free and compulsory basic education up to 9 years of schooling. For the production of the article, we resorted to bibliographical and documental analysis and concluded that the right to education is based on equality and expansion of educational opportunities for all.

Key-words: Basic Education, Teaching, Right to Education, Educational Policies, Mozambique.