Basic education
Basic education or basic education is a generic term for basic competencies (such as reading , writing , arithmetic ) that are a prerequisite for successful participation in society, in private as well as in everyday professional life. Basic education is still below the term general education .
Basics
The UNESCO defined in 1997 to the UNESCO World Conference on adult learning CONFINTEA V : "Basic education for all means that people, regardless of age have the opportunity as individuals or in the community their potential to unfold. It is not only a right, but also a duty and a responsibility to others and to society as a whole. It is important that the recognition of the right to lifelong learning is accompanied by measures that create the conditions for the exercise of this right. "
The concept of basic or basic education describes those competencies that are a prerequisite for successful participation in society; it relates to the specific requirements of a society and is therefore naturally relative and changing because it is very dependent on the social (further) developments (e.g. technological development, greater importance of modern information and communication technologies, changes in the world of work). The development of a modern society has raised the required and taken for granted level of basic education. Today, for example, even simple activities in the world of work require appropriate reading and writing skills. In principle, it is difficult to establish a uniform level for “sufficient basic education” in a society, i.e. to define the competencies that are a prerequisite for successful participation in all social activities.
In general, skills in reading and writing ( literacy ) as well as arithmetic nowadays also include the use of computers (and related devices, such as cell phones, ATMs and ticket machines, etc.), basic information technology education .
While the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) under the concept of basic education and primary education ( English education primary ) Level 1, the " beginning of systematic apprenticeship of reading, writing and mathematics " (ISCED 1997 German: systematic "Begin Understanding reading, writing and arithmetic ”), the Austrian discussion currently assumes that the level and skills that are achieved within the framework of a secondary school leaving certificate are sufficient: This corresponds to the minimum of what is required after ISCED is located under Level 2 ( English secondary education first stage ).
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Austria
It is assumed that around 600,000 adults in Austria have problems in basic education. This does not mean that these people have no skills, for example not reading, writing (lack of writing) or arithmetic, but it does mean that they find it difficult to do so (functional illiteracy ). For example, they cannot read meaningfully (for example, after reading a newspaper article, the content is not known) or they have problems in mathematical areas of everyday life (for example percentage calculations, decimal numbers, place value).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO] (Ed.): International Standard Classification of Education . ISCED 1997. Re-ed. 2006, ISBN 92-9189-035-9 , Table 1. Levels of Education at a Glance , p. 19 ( unesco.org ).
