2023-08-18 19:57:04
Errors in new textbooks cannot be corrected with a errataIt is a structural problem and political will is required for its redesign, experts warned.
When participating in a forum in the Chamber of Deputies, organized by the PRI and the PRD, David Block Sevilla, from the Department of Educational Research of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the IPN (Cinvestav), warned that “mathematics is the most mistreated science in the new books, with little content, without order, without sequence; a disaster”.
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He indicated that “there are no support materials for the teacher, the activities are very scarce”, for which reason “I would suggest to the schools that they continue with the practice of giving three or four hours of mathematics and that they reprint books from previous six-year terms ”.
Alma Maldonado, also a researcher at Cinvestav’s Department of Educational Research, criticized that “the disorder that design, content and lack of transparency have meant” is something that “will widen educational inequality in the country.”
“The most serious thing,” he explained, “is that the information on who participated, the procedures, and the contents were hidden until the books were made public, which resulted in serious errors, very easy to detect.” “Math and various content are not age relevant, so with a little political will they can be corrected.”
“There is concern about what will happen just 11 days after the start of the SEP course, because uncertainty prevails throughout the school community and all responsibility is left to the teacher. What can be noticed is that with this model the educational gap will widen, in addition to the one that the pandemic left us, ”he stressed.
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Irma Villalpando, a professor at the FES Acatlán of the UNAM, considered that the errors in the books “will not be corrected with a errata, it is a structural problem.”
After a review, he explained, the book Saberes “is a worrying jumble of concepts that will not work.”
Eduardo Backho, from Métrica Educativa, described the books as “a poisoned apple”, because it leaves teachers the responsibility of developing their own tools to teach with the new untested model, when they should have been given training for at least one year.
The specialists agreed on the reissue of the math and reading books, since the federal government is leaving the entire burden of responsibility to teachers.
With information from El Financiero
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