Venezuelan education is in trouble. What can be done to improve the situation? This report aims to address this question by analysing a number of initiatives, particularly in science education, promoted by various groups in the country. The aim is to highlight the key contributions of their approaches to the various difficulties facing Venezuelan education.
This report was originally published in December 2013 in the predecessor internet forum of this magazine.
This report was prepared by Javier Toro.
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.
This report is based on desk research and in-depth interviews. The following persons (listed in alphabetical order by surname) participated in the interview programme:
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Translation:
Javier Toro. Good day. The aspects described in the working summary are interesting. I imagine the extensive work will be much more. I will read the work published several years ago to learn about the positions and information of the people interviewed. In the meantime, I ask: what differences do you find about the content of the published work with the new information you have currently found?Translation:
SIMPLE SCIENCE: Infinite thanks for sending me this report and taking part in the efforts you make to raise the level of the Teaching in your country.Translation:
I consider it an emergency to review Education in Venezuela, although we have experienced many educational and innovative proposals, these become cathedrtic and non-interactive, and the result of a cognitive decline in students has not allowed them to move forward as it follows the traditional. I can highlight without any encouragement to criticize my colleagues the teachers who have resisted the new and innovative and have stayed in a retreat following the lines of a Ministry of Education that does not do the follow-up corresponding to the directors who became active administrative staff-removed and removed from the experiential process and adapted to the reality of each one and the environment of the participant in the socialization of the Learning. It can be emphasized that we have forgotten that children, adolescents and adults expect from us changes of attitude that value beyond and we bring them to excellence. Teresa Rico-Coordinadora Zona Carabobo of the Radiophonic Institute Faith and JoyTranslation:
I very much like to receive your documents, I must tell you that it is common to many countries of America to misperception of the role of the teacher, it is perhaps up to the universities to form them with the force and the security that allows them to demonstrate their contribution to the change, to the educational innovation, as well as the permanent desire of update, indispensable to work with diverse groups and that they change much in a short time. All this deserves to be updated the profile of the teacher that must be formed for each epoch and that the programs of study are also updated permanently.Translation:
Dear Messrs, many thanks for the information Saludos Dr Raul N Ondarza DSC Department of Biochemistry Faculty of Medicine, UNAM and Center of Research on Infectious Diseases National Institute of Public Health --- Raul N. Ondarza is a Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.Translation:
Look at the comment by Jairo Mojica C., Individual of Number of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences. Very interesting reflection, I particularly think that a teacher must implement the necessary strategies to guide the child, the young, the adult and their relatives, it is important to analyze the situation because we would live all the life blaming the other of the behavior of their students, There are techniques and dynamics that bring about the education of those who propose to us.Translation:
Thank you very much for sending your interesting reports. I fully share your views and that expressed by Dr Mojica. To this unfortunate picture of the disrepute and disincentive of our teachers is added a mass culture dominated by the media, which presents science as a stereotypical activity, distant and unattainable for countries like ours, and state policies that seem to have not perceived the enormous potential that gives a society the education of the people.Translation:
I have just read the 1213 report and I find it very much in line with the current situation of education in some Latin American countries, such as Colombia, where I reside.
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