Geography textbook exchange countries place
March 17, 2009 Category: indigo-Nation 
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Geography textbook exchange countries place
A map of South America, distributed to sixth graders in public schools of São Paulo, is absurd mistakes. Countries are exchanged and geographic locations nonexistent.Education in Brazil is going wrong. The country is ranked among the least prepare in math and science, for example. No wonder: teachers earn little and are ill prepared. But you could not guess is that the books contain serious errors. Change to the geography. These countries and exchanged names wrong. These books are in the hands of thousands of children and will not be collected.
Thousands of sixth grade students from public schools in São Paulo will continue to use a material that should be didactic. Many others may be affected, because these books end up in libraries and consulted by others. For students, parents and teachers, it is absurd. To the secretary of education, was a minor error.
Bolivia and Paraguay are one country? There are two Paraguayan? Another Paraguay appears below the Rio Grande do Sul, bordering the sea, as it never was. The geography, sometimes knows no bounds. So is South America for the sixth-grade students from public schools in São Paulo. A map is printed in a book distributed by the Department of Education as support material.
"It seems that there was no review of the material. Although we try to minimize how do you turn to Paraguay Uruguay putting the name of Paraguay in Bolivia? You end up creating a mess, especially the student who is in process of formation, "said geography teacher Alexandre Zanin.
"Missing a country as well. It's hard, "said student John Gabriel Anchieta.
"Nobody has discovered this. I think it's a thing of responsibility not only for students and for them they are seeing what is wrong and not correct. He has to learn right, not wrong, "claimed the student's grandmother, Filomena Cabral Moreno.
"It reaches an audience unthinkable. Even if that book is intended for a student can stay after the sixth series in a library, it can meet the child's fifth research series. A stay-at-home may have information. Multiply this error, which seems small, the number of students who will use this book today and many who may have access to that book for years in a row. A textbook can not be a set of seven errors and a complex of pranks, "noted education expert Silvia Gasparian Colello.
The reporting team of production Bom Dia Brazil requested an interview with State Department of Education, who preferred to send a note that says that the books will not be collected because the teachers were informed of errors and should advise their students. Also according to the note, these errors occurred due to failure of Vanzolini, who made the maps and the graphic design of the booklet.
The Vanzolini, also in a statement, said that the correct version of the map was placed on the website, which serves as the communication between the teachers of the State. Difficult is to convince parents and students that explanation.
Source: Good Morning Brazil
I'll repeat what Boris Casoy custuma say: This is a shame!
Probably responsible for the preparation of this material are inserted in the large group of Brazilian geograficos illiterate. People who can not even locate on a map of the state itself nascimento.Mas this phenomenon occurs not only in Brazil, it is worldwide.
AAmid so many absurd and unacceptable errors, I still appear with spelling reform ...
2The future of Brazil, are our children and adolescents. The government has to think about it, and take a atitute worthy, so that the future may have the best Brazilians.
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