Aims and scope of teaching informatics as a subject in public education – paper under publication Informatics as a Particular Field of Education

Informatics education can be discussed at different levels. There is informatics education at the university, there is professional informatics training and there is public informatics education. In the following article we are going to deal with the latter, that is we are going to discuss what areas of informatics should be introduced to students within the frame of the informatics subject in primary and secondary education. Knowledge in connection with informatics can be groupped from different points of view. We consider the following points to be acceptable: according to scopes of knowledge {1,2} Aims and scope In the article we are attempting to sum up what we consider to belong to each part of knowledge. First and foremost we set up aims and refer to the relationships with other fields. The following scopes of knowledge are going to be dealt with: A. Algorithmization, data modelling, programming (we always execute algorithms in our everyday life and at school as well, fill in data structures – questionnaires, forms-, we design activity sequences