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12/03/2013
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In São Paulo, Education Minister says that proposal is under discussion with state
The Education Minister Mercadante vowed on Monday to present the beginning of April a proposal to recast the Brazilian high school curriculum. He said the plan is already being discussed with the state departments of Education. The final cycle of basic education actually needs a serious adjustment, as indicated by educators and education indicators also.
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According to Mercadante, the idea is that the new curriculum is guided by the National Secondary Education Examination (Enem). "Students today dream of Enem, collecting four major areas (math, English, science and human nature.) We have to enforce them," said the minister, who this afternoon attended a public hearing at the Legislative Assembly São Paulo.
The redesign should occur along the lines of the National Pact for Literacy in Age One, which states that every child should learn to read and write until the age of 8, a collaboration between the MEC and the state departments. "The teaching medium is responsablidade states. Depends them that the proposed changes are accepted."
One of the changes being proposed, according Mecadante, is the flexibility of the curriculum. Each student would have autonomy to choose subjects for their grade in the three years of high school. This would allow, for example, increase the emphasis of the course in areas such as humanities, hard sciences and biology. The minister also spoke again about the distribution of tablets to teachers, without, however, detailing the training plan for teachers.
The Index of Basic Education Development (IDEB) shows that high school vai badly in Brazil. On a scale of 0 to 10, the average cycle pupils in 2011 was 3.7 - 0.1 just above the measuring point 2009. In nine states were resolved.
Last week, the NGO All for Education announced another worrisome. According to a survey conducted by the institution, only 10.7% of students of the 3rd year of high school dominated knowledge expected in mathematics in 2011. And worse: the number is lower than the previous measurement, held in 2009.
Quotas - Mercadante used the visit to criticize the project quotas in public universities for study in São Paulo, called Inclusion Program Merit in Public Higher Education Paulista (Pimesp), which aims to reserve 50% of seats for students from public high schools of São Paulo . From the note Enem or Saresp (Assessment System Educational Achievement of the State of São Paulo), school students would be admitted on a "college", a two-year course of preparation: once approved, would have access to universities .
To Mercadante, the system segregates students in two years and extends their training in higher education. "This two-year course does not promote inclusion and lets students apart from others. Moreover, a college that would inicilamente four years last six starts," he said. Experts, however, they disagree. "It is an innovation. This plan does not lower the fence. Teaches the student to jump higher," says Claudio de Moura Castro, education expert and columnist SEE.
Source: See - Online
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