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Writing Workshop Youth Club

Clarín, February 25, 2007, Education section

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DRAFT READING AND WRITING CLUB YOUTH "OF THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES

Three young confess their secret
writing them back to

school Jonathan (18) a construction worker and is trained to be a boxer, Karen left the Street in poetry and dreams of becoming a journalist Rocío policy. Only three cases, among many, to show that writing and reading are also passion of the boys. Ruben A.

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Adults err when they say that kids are bored to read or write. The three writing workshops and storytelling one team organized by the Literacy Project for Youth Club to prove it. Many students have approached their stories, comics or cartoons to try to publish in "Put the chest," a book sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the City of Buenos Aires. Moreover, this experience, combined with the national program "All to study," several students return to school in 2007.

This is the case of Jonathan Leguizamón, Karen and Rocío Domínguez Domínguez, writing workshop participants at the headquarters of Patrician Park. Saturday after Saturday, during the second half of 2006, they and their peers have enjoyed capable of arming teachers to enable them to work situations and share their stories with others. And were they oral or paper, or invented autobiographical, have known only one rule: play first, learn later.

And that is playing to the boxer lends his fists to the gloves of writing. Jonathan (18) lives in Villa Soldati, in the morning working as a mason and the afternoons, Saturdays included-train 4 hours in the gym of his father, a boxer and his uncle and grandfather. From them he learned that you must train hard and take care with food, no pizza, bread or soda, if you want to be world champion. Yes, with only 5 defeats in 34 fights, a tough guy as he came to the workshops because his mother insisted he scored and it was.

a Saturday, plus training, won his Soldati lazy to leave and went to the workshop. There he met his friend Ivan Pedrozo and a teacher who, to his surprise, invited him to finish a couple of stories that began with a few lines of Cortázar and Dolina about boxing. A Jony, which they called Ivan, and liked the idea so much they decided to write together. Since then two are inseparable, never forget to put a "pineapple" or "hook" in his writings.

Karen Dominguez (16) prefers the poetry and song to boxing, although that does not mean that you look good stories of his two companions. Lives in Patrician Park and until a time course in La Boca. Without going to school, his days were limited to the TV, chat or go out with a friend. When bored, he says, typed stories "about things that happen." And she found writing helped her overcome the bad times, which are "the most inspired me," he says.

The workshop served a love song for a contest, is engaged with poetry, especially with Neruda, and learned to choose better words for their texts. His is the excerpt: "Many times in life, sometimes things that happen are very unfair and we wonder why life it? Why life takes from the poor people and gives the haves? And in most cases no answer. "

Rocío Domínguez (19) likes Karen texts: "A lot of feeling in his writing, a mixture of pain and helplessness." Rocio lives in Lomas de Zamora, near the Ocean Fair, "a place where children beg for food in business," he says. Although he left school in 2004, tried but failed to return after "Repeat depressed me greatly. Not wanting to go to school, refused to leave home, do not want to do anything. Or would buy. " As would Jony: repeat put the ropes.

She, like Karen, the data of the workshop it became a friend. Rocio told his mother, whom he admires for how each day to get ahead, and it quickly found support from the preceptor Stella Maris Spera, who works in "All to study" and Youth Club. Today Rocío feel you are back in the center of the ring, he wants to finish high school, be a political journalist and comment on the reality of their neighbors. As Jony and Karen, in 2007 will be another opportunity. All three seem excited to play it first and learn later. Confident they still read and write Group will help knock the school failure.

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a collective phenomenon that promotes social inclusion
Frugoni To Sergio, coordinator of Project Literacy for Youth Club, kids enjoy building and share the sense that they suggest a text or an oral narrative. He and his team believe that reading and writing are collective phenomena, not just single and lonely. Therefore, they propose to practice both in group and foster knowledge and also social inclusion.

mid-2006 opened three writing workshops-Lugano, Patricians and Bajo Flores Park-and one-Callao-storytelling, all in schools functioned as Saturday Youth Club. In 6 months they managed to develop more or less stable at about 40 youths from 9 to 19 years and published a book "Putting the chest, which contains part of the material generated. Given the good results in 2007 Frugoni expects further dialogue with the schools and that these, for example, they open their libraries. More information: 4339 1874 and clubdejovenes@buenosaires.gov.ar .

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Alejandro Tiana, secretary general of Education of Spain

Clarín, 18 February 2007 , Supplement Education

paper version: here. INTERVIEW WITH ALEJANDRO

TIANA, SECRETARY GENERAL OF EDUCATION OF SPAIN

"The school not ensure better results"

90 In Argentina copied the English model. Now the two countries premiere education laws. According to Tiana, Spain seeks to improve primary-secondary bridges. Is the formula to reduce the 30% drop in half. Ruben A.

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"educational systems have much to do with the history, traditions and culture of each country. Copies of one system to another, in general, have not worked. Of course, study serves to see how other countries have faced some problems in a novel way. And also to open up possibilities to think about the system itself. "

With those words, then Alejandro Tiana contextualizes his comments on education systems and Argentinean English. In addition to Secretary-General of Education, Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, Tiana (Madrid, 1952) is a recognized expert in the matter. For example, among other important positions, he served as CEO of Innovation and Development of the Organization of Iberoamerican States (OEI). Given its profile and that Spain launches education law on 14 September gave a lecture at a conference organized by the International Institute for Educational Planning. The next day talked with Trumpet.

According to Tiana, a secondary compulsory until age 18, the polytechnic, does not guarantee better results. "In this regard, we must consider two points: one, if the education system can ensure quality education, another if it is responsive to the conflicting cases. If no such conditions, I am not a supporter of extending the compulsory school. " In other words: "The problem is not those who pass the course, but who have difficulty moving, do not like to study or drop out. They are those who must deal with the system and provide ways to integrate them. "

in Spain reaches compulsory school age 16 to 30 percent of students do not complete. Despite some views that extend up to 18 called the new law, Law for Education (LOE) - prefers to concentrate on improving primary education and building bridges from there to the school as a way to reduce the alarming rate of dropouts. According to Tiana, increase academic rigor without the means to support it is increasing the risk of school failure and, therefore, the frustration of the boys. Hence a further fracturing of society, rather than cohesive, there is only one step.

Despite their reluctance to extrapolate between educational systems, are encouraged to highlight a notable aspect of there that might serve here. This is the process of devolution of responsibility in education from the state to the regions, ie, which in Argentina would be decentralization to the provinces. At this time, in Spain the state takes a 4.5 percent spending and encourages collaborative programs with the autonomous communities, which are those that deal with the rest of education spending. Tiana was referring to the subject, always controversial in his country: "It's been a long process, from 1980 to 2000 - but I think we have a mutually respectful. Constitutional conditions are obviously other, but perhaps the process model and serve as a reference in Argentina. "

And, as the mistakes of others can also learn, are encouraged to self-criticism. Thus, features a pair of earrings for English subjects: ensuring regulatory stability and prestige of education. For the former, suggests that the debate should increase as political: "In general, many respond in a simplistic way-or white or black to very complex issues. Educational systems are things that are good and things that are wrong. Politicians should encourage and correct each other. "

As for social recognition, it also assumes some responsibility: "Politicians and the media should sensitize society and show the individual and collective benefits associated with education. That's a message we must reiterate to go looking through. " Indeed, perhaps these two pending issues should English also put on the agenda in Argentina.




* Religion and sexuality
The new education law legislation on 2 English in Argentina hot topics: religion and sex education. Regarding the first, Alejandro Tiana said that it respects the Constitution and existing agreements with the various religious communities. This implies a different treatment for the Catholic religion against the other. In the absence of a review of the agreements signed with the Vatican, as requested by the secular sector, public schools must offer the subject of Catholicism within the schedule classes and give students the freedom to attend it or not. Instead Jews, Muslims and evangelicals must meet a minimum number of students per school, about 20 - and have to give after-school class. Of course, the state pays the school professor and gives the necessary space.

addition, the new law does not provide a specific subject of sex education, but it is presented through several blocks curriculum. Of these, the most important are health and hygiene in the subjects of natural sciences, some reflections on ethics and sexuality in a matter-of a total of about 50 - dedicated to the dimension sex of the person in a new subject called Education for citizenship and human rights.

Given the great controversy surrounding the two cases, Tiana summarizes the position of the ministry: "The school should not indoctrinate or impose a moral vision, but a reflection on sexuality."

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Solitaire Player's Handbook Summer Reading

Chapter 1:2, solitaire games on children: the invisible friend

"... The end of the invisible friends often tragic or pathetic. Death or neglect are often the ways that their invisibility is made evident.'s death, such After the last game, it becomes a family event. Parents and siblings are informed of the death, and details are known causes in which the creative power of the child exceeds the level of their normal appearances. Sometimes death serves to enforce the actions it is founded: the hatred of a younger brother (he was the one who killed the invisible friend), suspicion about the treatment provided by a maid (the person who lives in my house but not my family, she has thrown away my friend), fear of a parent (...) these feelings would not be justifiable in the mind of the child, without a death involved, or without mediate what the child says that is death. Forgetting a
usually invisible friend embryonic create a sense of nostalgia. One day the boy discovers that long ago does not play with him. Try again times together, for a couple of days brings to mind, submit it to his brothers, talking about it. But the routine hides again until the final oblivion. Because the child feels, and unwittingly discovers that he forgot the invisible friend can no longer remember, since it is now another. So with this insidious death, invisible friend dies and dies with him his creator. Was this helpful invisible friend, then, to cushion the violence of the first death of the person. Perhaps, then, do not treat this case of death of the invisible friend but of its merger with the visible ... "