[Its.an.education.project] [Olpc-open] Sorry, what are we teaching? How?

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I don't know IF any textbook is used as a tool in the "teacher 
colleges".  I think the system is different: almost all big and ancient 
"teacher colleges" has a library.  Then the students are given a list of 
textbooks that they need to read (from the library books).  The list of 
"intended books" to be read is develop by the principal of each 
educational department in the College (in agreement and by suggestion 
with the main instructrors and old teachers).

In the new, and so many, "teacher colleges", I am sorry to inform that 
there is not such a thing as a library and most of the time the students 
are taught just by the information that the instructor (the master 
teacher) gives to them: hear, take notes, and be ready to give an 
examination.  Repeat the cycle 5 years and you will get a "teacher" 
licence from the goverment.  Sorry to say this but it is the true.

Javier Rodriguez
Lima, Peru

(oh... I was talking about public eduation... private teachers and 
private schools have higher standards... and... in Peru any person with 
a professional title can be a teacher, if you are a Human Medicine 
Doctor you can be teaching "biology" in a school, no problem)


Dave Crossland wrote:
>>> be interested to hear if the textbooks are made by the Peruvian
>>> ministry, or by a private company. If its a private company, I expect
>>> that getting them published online for this kind of analysis will be
>>> hopeless :-(
>>>       
>> textbooks are written according to the instructions of the Ministry of
>> Education.  Printed by the
>> goverment and delivered by the goverment (that is for public schools,
>> private schools need to
>> follow the curricula but they write and print its own books).
>>     
>
> Edward didn't mean the textbooks used in schools, he meant the
> textbooks used in Teachers Colleges.
>
> And I apologies that I wasn't precise - I meant to say:
>
> I'd be interested to hear if the copyright for the textbooks' text and
> images are held by the Peruvian ministry, or by a private company. If
> its a private company, I expect that getting the text and images
> published online for analysis will be impossible.
> http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/ is a suitable tool for
> this. If it is the Ministry, I hope they can publish the books on the
> OLPC wiki :-)
>
>