[hr-education] Citizenship and Human Rights Education new subject matter in primary schools in Spain

Euroresidentes 
Thursday, December 07, 2006 

Reforms in primary education in Spain 

The government has announced reforms in primary school education. The new
decree is called Minimum Teaching in Primary and will come into force in
the next academic year.

The biggest changes with respect to the current system is that primary
school pupils will be able to choose whether or not to study Religious
Education, and those who choose not to will have the right to study an
alternative subject. This is already the case in most state schools, but
many private schools with religious connections offer no substitute to the
traditional Religious Education classes in Spain, which teach children the
ins and outs of Catholic beliefs.

All schools will be obliged to undertake the "organizational measures"
necessary to offer the alternative to its pupils, ensuring that no pupils
will be discriminated against whether they choose one option or the other.
This means that whether or not a student has studied Religious Education
will no longer be taken into account when he or she applies for a place at
university or a higher education grant.

The other main change in the schools' curricula is in the number of hours
dedicated to teaching language, maths and foreign languages. According to
the new decree, from next year onwards pupils will receive 45 hours more
maths tuition and 25 hours less of Spanish language and literature. A new
subject called Citizenship and Human Rights Education will be introduced
into the timetable of the fifth or sixth primary years.

Source:
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2006/12/reforms-in-primary-education-in-spain.html





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