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

[Edward Cherlin]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM, info at olpc-peru.info
<info at olpc-peru.info> wrote:
> 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).

Then I want to see a copy of the list. Can we ask on the Sur list?

> 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.

Can we see anybody's notes?

> 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 :-)
>>
>>
>
>



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