This document outlines the key principles of education according to the Organic Law of Education in Spain. It discusses: 1) The history of education in Spain from the 19th century goal of universal primary education to the 21st century goal of combining quality and equity. 2) The main principles of education which are providing quality education for all, combining quality and equity requires a combined effort from families, schools and society, and committing to European Union education targets. 3) The aims of improving education quality and effectiveness, promoting active citizenship and social cohesion, and opening education systems to the external world by linking with the labor market, research, and society.

1. PREAMBLE
ORGANIC LAW OF EDUCATION
(LEY ORGÁNICA DE EDUCACIÓN – LOE2/2006, 3 MAY)

2. Education
 Great value: individual and collective welfare
depend on it.
 Integrates cognitive, affective and axiological
dimensions: shaping personal identity and
understanding of reality
 Provides the culture, knowledge and fostering
democratic coexistence and respect for individual
differences, promoting solidarity and preventing
discrimination: social cohesion.

3. History of
Education 19th century:The universality of
primary education and generalised
access to secondary education.
Provide a longer period of schooling
 20th century: high standard
and quality education offered to all
citizens
 1990: attention to the need to
combine quality with equity( in
2004 expressed the same concern by
many countries)
 Universal access to basic
education: 1857 and in 1964 was
extended from the age of six to
fourteen, it was not until the mid-
80’s that this principle became a
reality

4. History of
Education
At the beginning of the 21st
century to combine quality
and equity
 A public service by The General Law
of Education and Financing of
Educational Reform 14/1970 and the
Organic Law on the Right to Education
8/1985
 10-year period of compulsory
schooling by In 1990, the Organic
Law of General Organisation of the
Education System (LOGSE)
 the mid 1990’s attention began to
focus on the need to improve the
quality of the education
 in 1995 the Organic Law of
Participation, Assessment and
Management of Schools was passed.
 In the year 2002, further steps were
taken with the promulgation of the
Organic Law on Quality in Education.

5. Principles 1st: Provision of
quality education to
all citizens of both
sexes at every level
of the education
system
 schooling up until sixteen years of age,
 the aim is now to improve overall
results and
 reduce the high number of people who
still leave school with no qualifications
and who abandon their studies at an
early age.

6. The concept of effort
Families must collaborate
closely and should be involved
with the daily school work of
their children and with school
life
Education Administrations
must help all members of the
school community to carry out
their duties, providing the
necess
Equitable schooling of
students recognises the
existence of a dual network of
public and private schools
(Organic Law on the Right to
Education)
 2nd : The
combination of
quality and equity
implied by the
above principle
requires inevitably
a combined effort
 Responsibility for student success does
not rest solely on the individual student
but…
 also on families, teaching staff, schools,
Education Administrations and on
society

7.  3rd :Commitment to
the educational
targets set by the
European Union
 Economy based on more competitive,
dynamic knowledge, capable of
sustaining economic growth,
accompanied by a quantitative and
qualitative improvement in
employment and greater social
cohesion

8. European Union
and UNESCO
Improvement of teaching
Skills
Developing the skills
necessary for the
knowledge- based society
Guaranteeing access of all
to ICT
Increasing the number of
enrolments on science,
technical and art courses,
using all available
resources, and raising
investment in human
resources.
 In the first place:
improving the quality
and effectiveness of
education and training
systems.

9. European Union
and UNESCO
Appealing and promoting
active citizenship, equal
opportunities and social
cohesion
 In the Second place:
Open learning
environment

10. Provides: links with
 the labour market
Research
society in general
• develop entrepreneurship,
•improve foreign language
competence,
•increase mobility and
exchanges and strengthen
European cooperation.
 The third aim is to
open up these
systems to the
external world

11. In order to convert
these principles
into reality
Encourage the practice of
active citizenship,
community life and social
cohesion
Facilitating the passage from
one to another and allowing
the creation of training routes
granting of autonomy to
schools
Objectives and common
standards with the necessary
pedagogic autonomy and the
management of schools also
requires the setting up of
evaluation and
accountability instruments.
 Education and training must be
regarded as an ongoing process
which continues throughout life
 Flexibility of the education system

12. In order to convert
these principles
into reality Reform of the initial
teacher training model
in order to adapt it to
the European context
 Goals consists of
simplifying and
clarifying the
regulations