Fundamental School Curriculum, Third Cycle: Social Sciences, Year 7
- The 7th-year social sciences volume includes a theme on Caribbean societies whose general objective is to grasp their specificity, their shared cultural area and their dependent character.
- The preamble says the program aims to consolidate the philosophical, sociological, pedagogical and psychological bases of pupils' education during the third cycle and to ensure continuity with the basic cycle (years 1 to 6).
- The general objectives of the cycle include preparing pupils to enter secondary education at the end of the 9th fundamental year, which leads after 3 further years to the baccalaureate (general and technical).
- Among the goals of Haitian education the volume lists universal schooling by the year 2000, with the bicentenary of independence noted as the reference.
This volume is one of ten disciplinary volumes of the third-cycle curriculum of the fundamental school, issued by the Ministry of National Education through the Institut Pédagogique National for the 1989-1990 school year. It opens with a preamble and with the ends and general objectives of Haitian education, the objectives and principles of the third cycle, and the study plan of the fundamental school with its weekly time allocation. It then gives the program for the discipline: an introduction, the general objectives, the framework program, the detailed operational program, a progression grid and a selective bibliography of school textbooks.
The social sciences program treats as one field what schools had traditionally taught as two separate courses, history and geography, and draws on several disciplines to address the problems pupils face today. The program was prepared by a special commission organized in sub-commissions by discipline, with technical support from the Haiti/UNDP/UNESCO education project.
How to cite
Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP), 1989, Fundamental School Curriculum, Third Cycle: Social Sciences, Year 7, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/menfp-curriculum-3e-cycle-1989-sciences-sociales-7e
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- Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale et de la Formation Professionnelle (MENFP)