On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 :-) >> >> > > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
