Standard Classification of Educational Fields
From MoodleDocs
Here is a possible list of standard tags describing a course:
- General Programmes
- Basic programmes
- pre-primary
- elementary
- primary
- secondary
- university
- Literacy and numeracy
- Personal development
- behavioural capacities
- mental skills
- personal organizational capacities
- life orientation programmes.
- Basic programmes
- Teacher training and education science
- Teacher training
- pre-school
- kindergarten
- elementary school
- vocational
- practical
- non-vocational subject
- adult education
- teacher trainers
- for handicapped children
- General and specialized teacher training programmes.
- Education science
- curriculum development in non-vocational and vocational subjects
- Educational assessment
- testing and measurement
- educational research
- other education science.
- Teacher training
- Humanities and Arts
- Arts
- Fine arts
- drawing
- painting
- sculpture
- Performing arts
- music
- drama
- dance
- circus
- Graphic and audio-visual arts
- photography]
- cinematography
- music production
- radio and TV production
- printing and publishing;
- Design
- Craft skills.
- Fine arts
- Humanities
- Religion and theology
- Foreign languages and cultures
- living or ‘dead’ languages and their literature
- area studies;
- Native languages
- interpretation and translation
- linguistics
- comparative literature
- history
- archaeology
- philosophy
- ethics.
- Arts
- Social sciences, business and law
- Social and behavioural science
- Economics
- economic history
- political science
- sociology
- demography
- anthropology (except physical anthropology)
- ethnology
- futurology
- psychology
- geography (except physical geography)
- peace and conflict studies
- human rights
- Journalism and information
- Business and administration
- Law
- Social and behavioural science
- Science
- Life sciences
- Physical sciences
- Mathematics and statistics
- Computing
- Engineering, manufacturing and construction
- Engineering and engineering trades
- Manufacturing and processing
- Architecture and building
- Agriculture
- Agriculture, forestry and fishery
- Veterinary
- Health and welfare
- Health
- Social services
- Services
- Personal services
- Transport services
- Environmental protection
- Security services
- Not known or unspecified
Total: 34 tags
If we integrate the sub-sub categories, it would go to about 300 tags. In practice it still should be easy to navigate during a search if we integrate them.
(The tags could be drawn from this UNESCO ISCED 1997 list.)