Monday 17 March 2014

The Dark Side of Textbooks

Hello everyone! This week we had worked in one interesting task about the disadvantages of text books in schools (in classrooms). We (can find) found a lot of problems that books cause in Education. Parents and teachers in general aren’t conscious of the troubles that they originate for children. First of all, families spend a lot of money in text books. Our country is in a difficult economical situation and we think that is immoral spend so much money in the buy of textbooks. Also, text books have got an ethical influence, it depends on which editorial have published it, it has got a message or other (they can tell the same topic from different points of view). Governments influence text books too, they pay for editorial to publish one thing or other, depends its ideology. For example, in a non-democratic country, text books haven’t send message as freedom or democracy, so the children only learn just one reality, not provide them a whole vision of the world. With text books teachers don’t give students a complete education. In Spain, most teachers not works as professionals of education, just as readers of text books. Practices in education are based just on text books, they not allow the children to discover the world by themselves by experiments or using other resources, like for instance, internet.


To criticise textbooks we are prepare a nice comic, in which there are some characters, such as: a textbook, some editorials and some children.

In this comic we have designed a dialogue among the characters to criticise this resource, talking about its advantages, its bad uses and also talking about the power and the influence of editorials because the worse thing of textbooks is that according to its editorial , because as we have said before editorials talk about the same topic from their different point of view. As far as we concerned, textbooks are a good resources to teach children, however, there are more resources to teach, resources that children need to be more creative and to learn how to learn by themselves and how to investigate. Because if teachers only use textbook to teach they don't improve this thing to the children, they only teach children basic thing, and to memorise it to learn, and as we are studying in our degree to achieve a good learning children need to connect the new information with the content that they already posses, and with the others resources children learn to connect both contents. We hope you enjoy it!!!

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We have to learn how look beyond text books and investigate in materials for doing more enjoyable the class for the children. We have to motivate the students researching new types of paper, textures, colours, etc.

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