Abstract

BENE, Leonel Elias  and  GARCIA, Fabiane Maia. Basic education in Mozambique: unfolding of its democratization and future possibilities. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2021, vol.59, n.60, e-24640.  Epub Apr 19, 2022. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.21680/1981-1802.2021v59n60id24640.

This article examines the unfolding of the access to basic education democratisation policy and contextualises it by analysing its future possibilities. The research is bibliographic and documentary. It employs a qualitative approach with theoretical contributions from Triviños (1987), Bauer and Gaskell (2002). The analysis shows that, despite a late start of the democratization of access to education (with national independence), the catastrophic effects of war and natural disasters that greatly affected the country in the 1980s and 1990s, the research results indicate that access has improved significantly over time, both in terms of educational infrastructure and access opportunities. It is found that the approval of the current law (Law No. 18/2018, of 28 December) enables significant gains regarding the period of schooling as it provides for an obligatory 9 years against the 7, provided in the previous laws of the National Education System, which will benefit the length of stay in school.

Keywords : Educational public policies; Access to education; Basic education; Mozambique.

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