THE SCHOOL AND MOZAMBICAN EDUCATION IN THE COLONIAL AND POST-INDEPENDENCE PERIOD: PERSPECTIVES AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND AXIOLOGICAL PARADIGMS

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse the educational transformation in Mozambique from a historical perspective, based on the historical roots of Mozambican education. In this way, the colonial educational system marked by social and racial discrimination is highlighted, indicating the endeavour to build a Mozambican education and school in the post-independence period. Unequivocally, this period is the synthesis of the education system at national level after the conquest of independence and the nationalisation (nationalisation) of education. Strictly speaking, this period is the result of a deliberate and conscious break with the colonial period. Thanks to nationalisation (nationalisation), Mozambican education and schools were instruments for building and consolidating a new society and a New Man.