education
Illiteracy dropped from 2.6 to 1.9 percent
As part of the commemoration of International Literacy Day, Minister of Education’s Office, Alberto Silone, presented the scope of the National Literacy and Basic Education for Youths and Adults “Encounter” and other actions that help explain the reducing the rate of illiteracy in the country that showed the National Population Census conducted in October last year.
“It’s very good news that we have breached the limit of 2 per cent of illiteracy,” said the official opening press conference at the Palacio Sarmiento, adding that “if we compare the censuses of 2001 and the last in 2010 we see that illiteracy rate in Argentina dropped from 2.6 to 1.9 percent in the last decade. ”
“It lowered the rate in the provinces most reviews on this subject, which are of northeastern Argentina: Formosa, Corrientes, and Misiones, with Santiago del Estero, which declined 2 points. And Chaco, which was the province with the highest illiteracy rate in 2001 dropped to 5.5 points, “he said.
“There are several reasons, explained Silone, this reduction in the illiteracy rate, has grown enrollment in primary education and adult literacy program primarily our meeting, which launched the former President Nestor Kirchner in 2004, along with other we develop more targeted strategies and impact as well. ”
“We still get to the final core, which is always the hardest, the communities of indigenous people and people of great age. And while there is a need to further strengthen illiterate efforts. But the big news is that the numbers begin to reflect the results of the significant investment in education, “said the minister.
Silone pointed out that “is not the same move from primary to secondary, that the distinction between knowing or not knowing how to write and read. That’s the difference between life and death. “And he suggested that “shame is the first major difficulty is” to illiterate populations.
“Besides, he added, must break with intra and intergenerational transmission of ‘I cannot’, ‘not born for that.” If the grandparents, parents, brothers could not, it may seem that one is not for education. Breaking these barriers is a process of emancipation involves extending the idea, which begins today to strengthen various state policies that rights are not a privilege but something that is deserved. ”
The head of the national education portfolio during the presentation was accompanied by Deputy Minister of Education, Maria Ines Vollmer, the chief of staff, Jaime Percy, Undersecretary for Educational Planning, Eduardo Around, and the Director of Youth and Adults of education portfolio, Delia Mendez, along with several literacy.
During the meeting, also delivered, among other materials, the Book of Experiences of the “Meeting”, which gathers testimonies of literacy and literate, and the text for the continuing education of literacy in elementary school, all teachers will receive country’s primary education.
The National Literacy and Basic Education for Youths and Adults “Encounter” was first implemented in September 2004 under Resolution No. 686/04 of the Federal Council of Education. Literacy has 34,794 and is implemented in 49,838 schools.
This initiative is part of the movement “Education for All” promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and is funded by the State.
Registration is free for all youth and adults in the country, with national coverage is achieved from the participation of entities from all levels of government and numerous civil society organizations. For operation of the program, the Ministry of Education’s Office provides materials to the centers of both literacy and literacy to those who officiate, as well as delivering materials to students.
15 238 children have now started the school year in Getafe in preschools and primary
September 12, 2011 – twenty-five are distributed in preschools and public elementary, nine centers privado.Como a concerted and innovations, improvements and expansions in the CEIPs Vicente Ferrier, Gloria Fuertes and Tier no Galvan, and the addition of Julian Bestir Flared and Daoism and bilingual program.
15,238 children (307 more than last year) have started the school year 2011/2012 now in nursery school (5225 children) and primary (10,013 children) of Getafe. These are divided into twenty-five public schools, nine private and one concluded that comprise the Network of Centers and Primary Education in the municipality.
Juan Solar Mayor inaugurated this morning the course and wished success to the students during a visit to Public School and Flared Daoism in Percales del Río.Regarding the three groups increased last year in kindergarten and six in primary school. As for the improvements addressed in schools, it should be noted that pursued in the CEIP Vicente Ferrier in the neighborhood of El Biracial with the construction of a final module of six units for primary education, fitness and sports facilities; Gloria Fuertes in CEIP, Getafe Norte, which has included a module of six units for conversion to center line 3, in addition to the expansion of the dining room and the CEIP Tier no Galvan, Sector III, the expansion the classrooms of Education.
It also highlights the incorporation of two centers program Spanish-English bilingualism, and the Julian Bestir Daoism and Flared, both in Percales del Rio, which already are ten that have implemented this plan in the municipality.
For its part, the CEIP Vicente Ferrier, which began operating the 2009/2010 school year only at the stage of their schooling Child extends to 2 º of Primary. For his part, and Flared Daoism CEIP de Percales del Rio, who taught in 2008/2009 Child stage, extending its range up to 5 the grade?
As for the start of the day continues, the San José de Alaskans CEIPs, Fernando de los Rios, Vicente Ferrier The Corn Exchange and join the three already did last term: City of Getafe, Rosalie de Castro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez . .
Of non-professional nannies
I hear a text ad from recognized corporate distance training. A voice of an enthusiastic young man says “I work in a nursery. I have 20 children in class and feel like mine. “Background music immediately and go to the promotion of an upper Technician childhood education. They end up saying “You too can be like Mary!”
I’m not obsessive, but when I hear news related to education pay more attention, especially when I think I reflect the view that society has of our work and then, of course, I draw my Conclusions. Starting from the premise that advertisers are not stupid, and unless those who work for these large companies, and that talk of a “future employment”, I reflect while driving:
1, who are heading? Girls, do not miss the feminization of the profession to which he “likes children” and feel as their own.
2 º what do you like listening to the public? That educators feel children as their own, which are almost moms.
The safety of Mary makes me wonder. I’ve been in this profession many years and now I never felt like my children, which leads me to wonder if I was wrong in my choices.
O no!
If you let me give you some advice my dear Mary, dear advertisers and society in general, that ad is a trivialization of our social role.
No doubt that we are dedicated to teaching children to like-and girls-but, above all, has to like the work of education. Because only our liking and feeling like we can do many things that have nothing to do with formal education.
Teachers and educators are not nannies, moms or parts, are professionals in education accompany and guide the creatures in their growth process in integrated education as individuals, as individuals and as citizens. We know the importance of establishing a safe school attachment, affections and emotions in small, but we also know that if maternal and infant relations between teacher and students, something goes wrong, one way or the other. Mothers have to make mothers and teachers of teachers; here is not worth so many rides, rides well.
Dear Mary, teaching as a profession for the future is not playing house. Therefore, when I ask why you want to be teachers / educators do not say gently that to “feel like my children” to me would be suspicious.
Education for life, first century
MEC and organized OEI Iberoamerican Congress of Continuing Education and Technical Training.
Paraguay will host the Latin American Congress of Continuing Education and Technical Training with the slogan ”Education throughout life, first century” to be held at the Convention Center of the South American Soccer Confederation 27 and September 28.The same is organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Organization of Iberoamerican States (OEI).
Details of this important event were announced during a press conference in the framework of celebrations of International Literacy Day Center Pyhaju Kobe. Just attended by Education Minister Luis Alberto Rear, the regional director of the IEO, LuisScasso, the Deputy Minister of Education for Educational Management, and director Diana Seraing Sully Greco, representing the Department of Continuing Education.
The conference will bring together over 3,000 participants and will be attended by education ministers of 22 Latin American countries, Colombia’s former president Ernesto Samper, and the representative of the African Association for Development, National Institute of Education along life in Korea, the Executive Secretary of the Arab League of Nations, and representatives of international cooperation.
This congress will not only have lectures and panels on youth and adult education but also integrate the issue of technical education. ”Congress is completely innovative and will be high quality which will emphasize the forgotten part of education”, said LuisScasso.
Tender for Special Education Materials
The Education Act, Lizard Sinai Avellino Perez, who stated that special education is aimed at people with hearing, visual, intellectual, physical and multiple central objectives is to prepare those people to be incorporated into mainstream education in schools and schools.
The Deputy Minister of Special Education, with the aim of encouraging the training of persons with disabilities, discussed the terms of the tender for the provision of special education materials.
For authority, the first job was with the greatest impact with the deaf, sign language needed and until recently this form of communication was not established legally in Bolivia, including materials to be auctioned are the globoterráqueos with relief and the inclusion of various colors to the blind.
By the end of the year aims to resolve the issue to benefit 1,600 people with disabilities in general and that number will increase depending on demand.
In training projects was to appropriate to instruct teachers in sign language. They trained12 000 teachers in what is inclusive education, because in reality teachers have to be prepared and shall attend to and understand the special child.
Concerns and protests about cuts in education
SPAIN: The new school year begins on the wrong foot in Madrid, Galicia, Castillo-La Mancha and Navarra, the four autonomous communities in which they have announced cutbacks in education. In addition to a barrage of criticism, snips have already raised the call for mobilizations and protests.
The dictates of austerity now preys education in these four territories. Secondary teachers in Madrid are facing an increase of 18 to 20 hours per week, while the Galician passes the 21 to 25. The teaching staff will also see their schedules ranchero expanded from 18 to 20 hours in the case of secondary education and 23 to 25 primary and infant. In Navarre, secondary teachers have to work an hour a week.
With these measures, the respective regional governments hope to save millions of Euros, but at the cost of a component as sensitive as education. The reactions have been waiting and now the Socialists in Madrid have announced they will present a proposition of law to demand the withdrawal of the measures proposed in the Community, national press reports.
Unions have called a march Galicia in Santiago on September 9 and a string of strikes and stoppages that month. In Navarre, managers of public secondary schools of the Association of Directors of the Institute (ADI) shuffle resign en bloc to protest the cuts.
Meanwhile, Mar Jimenez, head of the Department of Teacher Training Institute Teacher Training, Research and Innovation (IFIIE) of the Ministry of Education, said today that any cuts in education is bad because it will harm the quality of teaching that is taught in classrooms, according to Europe Press.
Despite his claim of austerity, the EU has recently insisted that education is one of those crucial elements that do not have to put the scissors.