education
Let an agent reason about education as an activity with levels, providers, curricula, qualifications and rights, separate from the institutions that deliver it.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent reason about education as an activity with levels, providers, curricula, qualifications and rights, separate from the institutions that deliver it.
The organised transmission and acquisition of knowledge, skills, values and habits, through teaching, study, training and experience, in formal institutions or outside them.
What it is for: Developing people, preparing them for work and citizenship, and passing on culture.
It can be provide and receive it; assess and certify it, through qualifications; fund and regulate it; compare it across systems, with classifications such as ISCED.
Distinguishing features
An activity, not an institution
Formal, non-formal and informal forms
Organised in levels in most systems
A right under international law
What it looks like
Classes, lectures, workshops, online courses, apprenticeships and self-study; no single appearance.
How it is recognised
A provider, a curriculum and learners
Qualifications and certificates as evidence
Institutions such as schools are separate entries
Related models
is delivered by - institutions are separate entries
is delivered by - the occupation
results in - certified learning
is classified by - international levels
In practice
Families and kinds
by level: early childhood, primary, secondary, tertiary, adult
by form: formal, non-formal, informal
by field: general, vocational, religious, special needs
by provider: public, private, for-profit, community
Identifiers
ISCED 2011 level 0-8 international level of education
ISCED-F field code four digits field of education
Standards and regulation
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 26
UNESCO ISCED 2011 and ISCED-F 2013
National education acts and qualification frameworks
European Qualifications Framework
Failure modes and hazards
Treating qualifications from different systems as equivalent
Unaccredited providers and diploma mills
Exclusion of learners with disabilities or in poverty
Also called
+942
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.education-attribute
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Level and field What stage and subject.
Level and field place any educational activity.
Level
ISCED level.
Level
The level of education.
- Which level of education is this, in ISCED terms? definition
- How does it map to the national system? measurement
Field
Subject area.
Field
The field of study.
- What field does it cover? definition
- Is it general or vocational? definition
Provision Who provides it and how.
Provider and mode affect quality and recognition.
Provider
Institution or organisation.
Provider
The provider and its accreditation.
- Who provides it, and are they accredited? provenance
- Is it publicly funded? definition
Mode
In person, online, blended.
Mode of delivery
How it is delivered.
- How is it delivered? definition
- What contact time does it involve? measurement
Outcomes and recognition What learners get.
Qualifications carry value only if recognised.
Qualification
Award and level.
Qualification
The qualification awarded.
- What qualification does it lead to, at which framework level? definition
- Who recognises it? provenance
Assessment
How learning is assessed.
Assessment
Assessment methods.
- How is learning assessed? definition
- How reliable are the assessments? measurement
Access and rights Who can take part.
Education is a right; access is where it is won or lost.
Access
Admission, cost, support.
Access conditions
Admission and cost.
- Who can enrol, and at what cost? definition
- What financial support exists? definition
Inclusion
Special needs and language.
Inclusion measures
Support for diverse learners.
- What support exists for learners with disabilities? definition
- In which languages is it offered? definition
What the second pass must settle
- Should levels and fields be separate entries?
- How should qualification equivalence be represented?
- How should non-formal and informal learning be recognised?