Paper short abstract:

Secondary education offers an essential preparation for employment at a medium level being a basis for higher education, including teacher training.

Paper long abstract:

SUMMARY OF THE PRESENTATION

GEOGRAPHY TEACHING IN SECONDARY EDUCATION IN MOZAMBIQUE

Secondary education offers an essential preparation for employment at a medium level being a basis for higher education, including teacher training. The fast growth of the economy in Mozambique throughout the nineties of the 20th century lead to a significant rise in the search for qualified workers, especially in the private sector. However, secondary schools haven't provided enough qualified workers. On the other hand, the expansion of the admissions at an elementary school level foreseen by the Education Strategy Plan will increase the search for new teachers. At the end of the nineties, the number of applications presenting ten school years (ESG1) was lower than the number of teachers necessary for the Mozambican primary schools in the following decades. It is likely that the search for young people who have finished the ESG1 in the labor market will exceed, for some time in the future, the supply of graduates. On the other hand, it is obvious that the rise of admissions and the improvement of the quality in Primary Schools will necessarily pressure the increase of the access to secondary education. This clearly justifies some expansion to this extent (Ministry of Education of Mozambique, 1998).

Keywords : Geography, Citizenship, Geography teaching, Secondary Education.

AUTHOR: CARLOS MARTINS