Middle schoolA middle school (also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school) is an educational stage which exists in some countries, providing education between primary school and secondary school. The concept, regulation and classification of middle schools, as well as the ages covered, vary between and sometimes within countries. In Afghanistan, middle school includes grades 6, 7, and 8, consisting of students from ages 11 to 14.
State schoolA state school or public school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. Such schools are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State-funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. Government funded education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old).
Primary schoolA primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age). Primary schooling follows pre-school and precedes secondary schooling.
PreschoolA preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school. It may be publicly or privately operated, and may be subsidized from public funds. Terminology varies by country. In some European countries the term "kindergarten" refers to formal education of children classified as ISCED level 0 – with one or several years of such education being compulsory – before children start primary school at ISCED level 1.
École maternellevignette|Premier jour d'école pour un Éthiopien âgé de trois ans. vignette|École maternelle à Kyoto (octobre 2012). vignette|Jardin d'enfants, . L'école maternelle est une école qui accueille de très jeunes enfants pour les préparer aux apprentissages fondamentaux de la lecture, de l'écriture et du calcul. C'est une période préparatoire à l'enseignement élémentaire : les objectifs essentiels sont la socialisation, la mise en place du langage, du nombre et du geste graphique.
Écolethumb|Reconstitution partielle d'une école primaire des années 1930 en Allemagne. Une école est un établissement où l'on accueille des individus appelés « écoliers » ou élèves afin que des professeurs leur dispensent un enseignement de façon collective. Le mot école vient du latin schola, signifiant « loisir consacré à l'étude », lui-même provenant du grec ancien , scholè (« le loisir »), lequel constituait un idéal souvent exprimé par les philosophes et une catégorie socialement valorisée opposée à la sphère des tâches productives.
Éducation alternativeL'éducation alternative ou pédagogie alternative, également appelée pédagogie non traditionnelle, désigne toutes les approches pédagogiques se réclamant d'un courant pédagogique unique et qui diffèrent donc de la pédagogie dite « traditionnelle » basée sur un enseignement différencié. L'éducation alternative peut, par la suite et en fonction de ses résultats, venir enrichir la pédagogie traditionnelle qu'elle permet de faire évoluer ou au contraire disparaître par manque d'efficacité.
Criticism of schoolingAnti-schooling activism or radical education reform describes: positions that are critical of school as a learning institution and/or compulsory schooling laws; or, multiple attempts and approaches to fundamentally change the school system. People of this movement usually advocate alternatives to the traditional school system, education independent from school, the absence of the concept of schooling as a whole, or at least the right that people can choose where and how they are educated.
