Outline of education

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to education

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to education:

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, habits, and personal development.[1]

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| Preschool
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| Elementary school

| Infant
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| High school

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| Undergraduate
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Education by region

Education in Africa

Sovereign states|

* Algeria
* Angola
* Benin
* Botswana
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cameroon
* Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
* Central African Republic
* Chad
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* Eswatini (Swaziland)
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* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
* Kenya
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Namibia
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* South Africa
* South Sudan
* Sudan
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Uganda
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

States with limited
recognition

* Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
* Somaliland

Dependencies and
other territories

* Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain)
* Madeira (Portugal)
* Mayotte / Réunion (France)
* Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

Education in Asia

Sovereign states|

* Afghanistan
* Armenia
* Azerbaijan
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Bhutan
* Brunei
* Cambodia
* China
* Cyprus
* East Timor (Timor-Leste)
* Egypt
* Georgia
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
* Japan
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* North Korea
* South Korea
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Lebanon
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mongolia
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Russia
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* Sri Lanka
* Syria
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Turkey
* Turkmenistan
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam
* Yemen

States with
limited recognition|

* Abkhazia
* Artsakh
* Northern Cyprus
* Palestine
* South Ossetia
* Taiwan

Dependencies and
other territories|

* British Indian Ocean Territory
* Christmas Island
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands
* Hong Kong
* Macau

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Education in Europe

Sovereign states|

* Albania
* Andorra
* Armenia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
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* Kazakhstan
* Latvia
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malta
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Montenegro
* Netherlands
* North Macedonia
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* San Marino
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom

States with limited
recognition|

* Abkhazia
* Artsakh
* Northern Cyprus
* South Ossetia
* Transnistria

Dependencies and
other entities|

* Åland
* Faroe Islands
* Gibraltar
* Guernsey
* Isle of Man
* Jersey
* Svalbard

Education in North America

Sovereign states|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Canada
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* El Salvador
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States

Dependencies and
other territories

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
* Bonaire
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Greenland
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Puerto Rico
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Martin
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* Saba
* Sint Eustatius
* Sint Maarten
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* United States Virgin Islands

Education in Oceania

Sovereign states|

* Australia
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Fiji
* Kiribati
* Marshall Islands
* Nauru
* New Zealand
* Palau
* Papua New Guinea
* Samoa
* Solomon Islands
* Tonga
* Tuvalu
* Vanuatu

Associated states
of New Zealand|

* Cook Islands
* Niue

Dependencies
and other territories|

* American Samoa
* Christmas Island
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands
* Easter Island
* French Polynesia
* Guam
* Hawaii
* New Caledonia
* Norfolk Island
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Pitcairn Islands
* Tokelau
* Wallis and Futuna

Education in South America

Sovereign states|

* Argentina
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Chile
* Colombia
* Ecuador
* Guyana
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Suriname
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Dependencies and
other territories

* Falkland Islands
* French Guiana
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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## Contents

* 1 Participants in education
* 2 Education by Country
* 3 History of education
* 4 Educational philosophies
* 5 Educational theory and practice
* 5.1 Pedogagical and instructional approaches
* 5.1.1 Teaching methods
* 5.2 Educational materials, tools and technologies
* 6 Types of educational goals and outcomes
* 7 Educational assessment, qualification and certification (for students)
* 8 Educational qualifications (for teachers)
* 9 Branches of education
* 9.1 Education by level or stage
* 9.2 Education by funding and governance
* 9.3 Education by subject, specialization or department
* 10 Educational scholars and researchers
* 11 Educational research
* 12 Educational organizations
* 12.1 Types of educational institutions
* 12.1.1 Specific schools
* 12.2 Associations
* 12.3 Governmental organisations and agencies
* 12.4 Libraries
* 12.5 Types of libraries
* 12.6 Specific libraries
* 12.7 Museums
* 12.7.1 Types of museums
* 13 See also
* 14 References
* 15 External links

## Participants in education

* Student - person enrolled in a school or other educational institution, or more generally, a person who takes a special interest in a subject.
* Parent (via parenting) - students' parents typically play a large role in teaching their children and overseeing their formal education, often including financing it.
* Teacher - person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
* Teacher's assistant - individual who assists a professor or teacher with instructional responsibilities.
* Tutor - person who provides personalized assistance or tutelage to one or more people on certain subject areas or skills
* Head teacher (Principal) - staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility[1] for the management of the school.
* Professor - academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries, usually denoting an expert in his/her field and a teacher of the highest rank
* Associate professor - academic rank between assistant professor and a full professorship (North America)
* Assistant professor - academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States, Canada, Japan, and South Korea.
* Adjunct professor - bona-fide part-time non-tenure faculty member in an adjunct position at an institution of higher education.
* Lecturer - academic rank in the commonwealth system, denoting a teaching position higher than that of the entry-level associate lecturer.
* Catechist
* School counselor
* School psychologist
* Principal (academia)
* Rector
* Dean
* Chancellor

## Education by Country

* Classical Education
* Western education

## History of education

* History of education
* History of early childhood care and education
* History of academia
* History of higher education

## Educational philosophies

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Philosophy of education

Philosophers|

* John Dewey
* John Locke
* Jean Piaget
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Concepts|

* Active learning
* Critical thinking
* Student-centred learning

Related|

* Cognitive science
* Psychology

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* Discussion

* Idealism
* Realism
* Theism
* Pragmatism
* Existentialism
* Critical theory
* Perennialism
* Classicism
* Essentialism
* Critical pedagogy
* Waldorf education
* Democratic education
* Progressivism
* Unschooling
* Criticism of schooling
* Contemplative education
* Humanistic education
* Critical thinking
* Constructivism
* Behaviorism
* Cognitivism
* Popular education
* Montessori education
* Compulsory education
* Traditional education - long-established customs that society has traditionally used in schools, where students obediently receive and believe knowledge communicated by teachers.

## Educational theory and practice

* Curriculum studies - field where researchers and educators examine how educational experiences are designed and organized to support meaningful learning
* Educational research - systematic collection and analysis of evidence and data related to various aspects of education including student learning, interaction, teaching methods, teacher training, and classroom dynamics.
* Instructional theory - study of how to design learning environments, methods, and materials in ways that facilitate learning
* Learning theory - describes how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning.

### Pedogagical and instructional approaches

Main article: Social:Pedagogy

* Alternative education
* Instructional design
* Learning environment
* Learning space
* Learning community
* Learning styles
* Socialization

#### Teaching methods

Main article: Teaching method

Teaching method - set of principles and methods used by teachers to enable student learning.

* Collaborative learning - situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together.
* Context-based learning - use of real-life and fictitious examples in teaching environments in order to learn through the actual, practical experience with a subject
* Design-based learning - inquiry-based form of learning, or pedagogy, that is based on integration of design thinking and the design process into the classroom at the K-12 and post-secondary levels.
* Direct instruction - explicit teaching of a skill set using lectures or demonstrations of the material to students
* Evidence-based education - principle that education practices should be based on the best available scientific evidence, with randomised trials as the gold standard of evidence, rather than tradition, personal judgement, or other influences
* Experiential education - philosophy of education that describes the process that occurs between a teacher and student that infuses direct experience with the learning environment and content
* Experiential learning - process of learning through experience, and is more narrowly defined as "learning through reflection on doing"
* Homework set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed at home.
* Inquiry-based learning - form of active learning that starts by posing questions, problems or scenarios.
* Kinesthetic learning - learning that involves physical activity, preferring whole-body movement to process new and difficult information.
* Learning by teaching - method of teaching in which students are made to learn material and prepare lessons to teach it to the other students.
* Online learning community - public or private destination on the Internet that addresses its members' learning needs by facilitating peer-to-peer learning
* Open learning - activities that either enhance learning opportunities within formal education systems or broaden learning opportunities beyond formal education systems
* Open classroom - student-centered learning space design format, where large group of students of varying skill levels would be in a single, large classroom with several teachers overseeing them.
* Outcome-based education - educational theory that bases each part of an educational system around goals (outcomes)
* Outdoor education - organized learning that takes place in the outdoors, such as during school camping trips
* Personalized learning - efforts to tailor education to meet the different needs of students.
* Problem-based learning - teaching method in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material
* Problem-posing education - method of teaching that emphasizes critical thinking for the purpose of liberation, coined by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire
* Project-based learning - teaching method that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems
* Service-learning - educational approach that uses community service to meet both classroom learning objectives and societal needs
* Slow education - adaptive and non-standards based approaches to teaching
* Single-sex education - practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, buildings or schools
* Student-centred learning - methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction from the teacher to the student, aiming to develop learner autonomy and independence
* Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Bloom's Taxonomy) - framework for categorizing educational goals, developed by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956

### Educational materials, tools and technologies

* Curriculum
* Educational technology (the use of electronic educational technology is also called e-learning)
* Educational animation
* Educational robotics
* Outline of open educational resources
* Instructional materials
* Lesson plan
* Textbook

## Types of educational goals and outcomes

There are many types of potential educational aims and objectives, irrespective of the specific subject being learned. Some can cross multiple school disciplines.

* Outline of educational aims

## Educational assessment, qualification and certification (for students)

* Educational assessment
* Educational measurement
* Psychometrics
* Types of test
* Test by purpose
* Formative assessment
* Diagnostic assessment
* Assessment as learning
* Summative assessment
* High-stakes testing
* Accountability assessment
* Research
* See also: Biology:Outline of educational aims

* Standardized test
* Assessment by way of comparison
* Norm-referenced test
* Criterion-referenced test
* Ipsative test
* Assessment by mode
* Paper-based
* Oral
* Electronic
* Performance
* Continuous observation
* Assessment by format
* Essay
* Multiple choice
* Quiz
* Portfolio
* Practical considerations
* Grading in education
* Grading systems by country
* List of primary and secondary school tests
* School leaving qualification
* List of secondary school leaving qualifications
* List of admission tests to colleges and universities

See also: Biology:Outline of educational aims

## Educational qualifications (for teachers)

* Teaching credential
* Bachelor of Education
* Master of Education
* Doctor of Education

## Branches of education

### Education by level or stage

Main article: Social:Educational stage

Educational stage - subdivisions of formal learning

* Early childhood education - teaching of children (formally and informally) from birth up to the age of eight, traditionally equivalent of third grade.
* Preschool - an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school.
* Primary education - first stage of formal education, coming after preschool/kindergarten, often three to six years long
* Secondary education - stage of formal education that follows primary education, preparing students for higher education or the workforce
* Higher education - stage of formal education following the completion of secondary education provided in universities, colleges, and vocational schools.
* Vocational education - education that prepares people for a skilled craft in order to be gainfully employed or self-employed
* Tertiary education - a near-synonymous term for higher education used in educational research
* Academy - specialized institution of tertiary education
* Adult education - practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained educating activities in order to gain new knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values

### Education by funding and governance

* Public education
* Private education
* Homeschooling
* Autodidacticism

### Education by subject, specialization or department

* List of education by subject
* List of academic disciplines

## Educational scholars and researchers

*     * List of educational psychologists
* Category:Philosophers of education

## Educational research

* Educational research
* List of education journals
* Disciplinary approaches to educational research. Whereas much educational research is interdisciplinary and can focus on any topic on this page, some disciplines have long roots.
* Anthropology
* Measurement
* Assessment
* Comparative
* Curriculum studies
* Economics
* Educational sciences
* Gender
* International education
* Law and rights
* Leadership
* Management
* Neuroscience
* Policy
* Politics
* Process evaluation
* Psychology
* Sociology

In addition, research methods are drawn from many social research and psychological fields.

## Educational organizations

### Types of educational institutions

* School – an institution designed for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education (commonly compulsory), in which students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. Non-compulsory higher education follows, and is taught in institutions called a college or university.

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School types

By educational stage|

| Early childhood|

* Preschool
* Pre-kindergarten
* Kindergarten

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Primary|

* Elementary school
* First school
* Infant school
* Junior school
* Primary school

Secondary|

* Adult high school
* Cadet college
* Collegiate institute
* Comprehensive high school
* Comprehensive school
* Continuation high school
* Grammar school
* Gymnasium
* High school
* Lyceum
* Secondary school
* Sixth form college
* Studio school
* University-preparatory school
* University technical college
* Upper school

Tertiary|

* Professional school
* Technical school
* Vocational school

Higher|

* Academy
* College
* Community college
* Graduate school
* Institute of technology
* Junior college
* Liberal arts college
* Research university
* Seminary
* University
* Upper division college
* Vocational university

Combined|

* All-through school
* K–12 school
* Middle school
* One-room schools
* Ranch school

By funding / eligibility|

* Academy (England)
* Charter school
* Community day school
* Comprehensive school (British)
* For-profit education
* Free education
* Free school (England)
* Independent school
* UK Independent school
* preparatory
* public
* Selective school
* Separate school
* Sink school
* State or public school
* State-integrated school (New Zealand)

By style / method|

* Alternative school
* Boarding school
* Catholic school
* Day school
* Democratic education
* Folk high school
* Free skool
* Homeschooling
* International school
* Madrasa
* Magnet school
* Parochial school
* Progressive education
* Free school movement
* Laboratory school
* Montessori school
* Waldorf school
* Sudbury school
* Virtual school
* Vocal school
* Yeshiva

By scope|

* College preparatory
* Compensatory education
* Compulsory education
* Continuing education
* Further education
* Gifted education
* Remedial education
* Special education

Historical|

* Ancient higher-learning institutions
* Platonic Academy
* Lyceum
* Monastic schools
* Cathedral schools
* Medieval universities

Schools imposed on
indigenous peoples

* in Canada
* in New Zealand
* in the United States
* in South Africa

Informal or illegal|

* in Ireland
* in Greece
* in South Tyrol

Related topics|

* Educational institution

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Stages of formal education

| Early childhood education| Primary education| Secondary education| Tertiary education

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| Preschool
->| Kindergarten

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| Elementary school

| Infant
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| High school

| Junior high school
->| Senior high school

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| Vocational| Further
continuing

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| Undergraduate
->| Postgraduate

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* Alternative education
* Homeschooling
* Adult education
* Portal

#### Specific schools

* List of schools
* Lists of universities and colleges

### Associations

* Students' union
* Parent-Teacher Association
* International Association of Universities

### Governmental organisations and agencies

* Department of Education
* Board of education
* UNESCO

### Libraries

* Library – collection, or institution that provides a collection, of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. Among its purposes is to support the ongoing education of its members.

### Types of libraries

* Academic library
* Archive
* Digital library
* National library
* Public library
* Research library
* Special library

### Specific libraries

* List of libraries
* List of national libraries

### Museums

* Museum – an institution, the purpose of which is collect, preserve, interpret, and display items of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the education of the public.

#### Types of museums

* Archaeology museum
* Art museum
* Biographical museum
* Children's museum
* Design museum
* Encyclopedic museum
* Historic house museum
* History museum
* Living history museum
* Maritime museum
* Medical museum
* Memorial museum
* Mobile museum
* Natural history museum
* Open-air museum
* Science museum
* Virtual museum
* War museum
* Living museum
* Zoological park
* Botanic garden

See also: Social:Lists of museums

## See also

* Education
* Career and technical education
* Glossary of education-related terms
* Index of education articles
* Outline of second-language acquisition
* Outline of academia

## References

1. ↑ UNESCO SDG Resources for Educators - Quality Education, retrieved 21-01-2022

## External links

* international review of curriculum and assessment framework a very useful website that provides comparative information about the education system of many countries.
* World Bank Education
* UNESCO - International Institute for Educational Planning
* UNESCO IBE Database: Information on almost every education system in the world
* The Encyclopedia of Informal Education

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