Educational Activity : Annual Report 1969/70

Purpose Thé goal of thé model is to enable us to comprehend thé différent of thé dimensions of reality which are présent in thé educational system as mode! well as their spécifie and sometimes contradictory characteristics; to discover thé impact of thé occurences and thé nature of thé conflicts within thé system : to appreciate better thé nature and thé conséquences of accomplished reforms as wel. [...] Thé educational System as seen from thé perspective of thé third level, educational activity, is thé fulcmm of thé model : to be more précise, it is thé point of departure and thé point of arrivai of thé search- ing which preceded thé conception and élaboration of thé model. [...] Thèse functions are related to thé élaboration of général educational policies, to thé définition and application of objectives; to thé management and coordination of levels of instruction, and to each of thé institutions dispensing instruction; to thé organiza- tion of administrative powers and thé distribution of school boards and public collèges; to thé construction, purchasing and maintenance. [...] In this respect, we must mentioa; thé eligibility standards to thé différent levels of instruction, for example, to thé elementary and secondary courses; thé rules which détermine admission into public collèges and thé faculties or thé require- ments of thé job market; thé standards related to thé évaluation of thé student's compétence; thé criteria which inspire them and thé séries of vérificatio. [...] Thé appropriate criteria for thé éléments of thé second level are, primarily, of a pedagogical nature and they belong either to thé pedagogical activity itself (for example, thé laws, better known today, governing thé intellectual development of thé child, thé adult's expe- rience in life and thé knowledge acquired from his work), or to thé instrinsic requirements of thé learning expérience and th.