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Clarín, March 4, Supplement Education

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EDUCATIONAL INTERNET SITE

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www.chicosyescritores.org page, designed one of the greatest experts in literacy, Emilia Ferreiro managed to interact more than 11,000 kids who write in English. Ruben A.

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"There once was a former muuuuuuuuuuuy school. The kids did not like at all. One day I climbed the stairs together and stepped on so hard that he turned around and they fell behind. It turned out again to the past when the school was new. They found that the ladder was magical and could travel in time. End Bye. Until another time. "

Santiago Garcia (6), Esquel, one of the 2,407 Argentines who have published a text in www.chicosyescritores.org , a website designed by psychologist and developed Emilia Ferreiro between the Economic Culture Fund and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In this free public education forum, interact with more than 11 000 children 4 to 12 years who write in English, mainly from Latin America and Spain. According Kriscautzky Marina, one of the academic coordinator, "this experience shows" that children can read and write when it makes sense to do so, they like to communicate in writing when someone responds taking seriously what they have to say. "

This applies at least the kids in Argentina. Account Kriscautzky from Mexico City that these "are the second nationality in number of users, but in percentage are those most published. " In late February 2007, young Internet users had been published 523 albicelestes own texts and had recommended 376 books to their peers. Is it too much or too little? At that time, the nearly 5 million Mexicans registered 613 texts had been drafted and had recommended 440 books. Come hither that you have taken the measure to the computer.

Anyway, rather than the affinity for technology-something generation, what is striking is that they have recommended 376 different books. Was not only read Harry Potter? Not really. For Rivadero Sofia Cordoba (8), Reading is a nice "Ruperto detective" by Roy Berocay. According to Paula Alvarez (10), Buenos Aires, "Lorca for children" is very interesting because it allows "write or draw something from a poem on the back pages." And Oriana Arriola (13), Villa La Angostura, "Fallen off the map", María Inés Falconi (13), because the players liked the same grade as her: 7 º. That is, the kids have a variety of tastes and love to share.

And if your literary tastes are varied, not least their interests are different when typed. Thus, the Cordoba Guadalupe Diaz (12) wrote a variation on the story of the frog and the princess, where he lives on missions and compete against the princess Fito Paez Glucutucu. For its part, Martina Lopez Yablon (13), Buenos Aires, invented "insonante poetry", a genre where it matters less if it is consonant rhyme or alliteration and assonance to form "the rush of the breeze." Others, like the locals also, Emanuel Gamaleri (13), Aime Daiana Scura (12) and Nicole Vispo (12) vocalized their feelings about lost childhood, first love, death, school or separated parents. Prose, poetry, story, diary or autobiography, who cares, what matters is who write frequency.

Of course, even better news is that they are just a sample of the 2,407 fellow Argentines are listed. To Kriscautzky, after four years of the project's conclusion is clear: "Children think about writing, it raises questions about how it works and how to interact socially through it." The data bear this out: chicosyescritores.org receives approximately 4,700 hits per month. In other words, adults should take more seriously what kids have to say, especially in writing.

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As a workshop
Since 2002, the team becomes chicosyescritores.org actually a postulate of its coordinator, Emilia Ferreiro, PhD in Psychology, a student of Jean Piaget and modernization of literacy, "promoting intellectual respect for the child. Through the website, these teachers work written texts children as if they attend a writing workshop. Marina Kriscautzky sums up the methodology of the corrections: "We put ourselves in the author's point of view, age and knowledge on writing sample, on that basis decide what errors are able to see the author in his text: no we ask the same thing a child of 7 years to a 13, but not that to 10. If the text needs to change, we wrote the author to explain what the main problem and giving ideas for improvement. If not, do a commentary accompanying the text and publish it. "

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Clarín, March 4, 2007, Education section

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"Playing live is under the control of emotions that adults are not possible"

In this second talk with Clarin, the expert in childhood Francesco Tonucci, was a common complaint of children to adults. They are convinced that, while providing good ideas to solve all issues, not hear your opinion. Ruben A.

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Who has more public space: the adults to park their cars or children to play with friends? The answer to this question exemplifies the questionable sense that the word "progress in today's society. According to Francesco Tonucci teacher, adults abuse their power and turn the cities into prisons for children. And all, as explained by this prestigious specialist in childhood, because "adults only build cities them and their cars, and throw almost all others. "

is so clear: politicians, parents or teachers, for example, making decisions that affect children, but who do not respect these basic rights. What are those rights? "Being able to leave home alone, as a citizen to participate in improving the city, enjoy safe public spaces and the adoption of a culture of childhood", lists Tonucci. For boys, the progress is to live in cities where pedestrians reign and bicycles, to learn in schools that they find funny or avoid boredom at home because they are not allowed out alone. That adults also consult them on how to realize these and other dreams.

Where do you start then? The children's main complaint says this teacher, is asking for more autonomy, moments of freedom where they are not supervised by adults. Parents happen to imprison their children at home and do not let them go out alone because they fear everything: traffic, child molesters, who were removed shoes and money, including the slides of the park. Tonucci understands the concern about the insecurity, but argued against: "The data says that 90 percent of violence against children occurs at home, not in the street." He adds: "If children can not going out alone, can not play. Play requires the autonomy and freedom to live experiences as an adventure, discovery, risk ... Emotions that, under the supervision of adults, are not possible and that children need to mature. "

The following claim about children is that adults do not take into account their views, although they have good ideas to resolve issues that affect everyone. "Good ideas, really? Then a few questions for both sides, with the answers sought Tonucci in February when he met with kids from Rosario and Buenos Aires. Easy: what do they like to children? Parents: "Watching TV and playing video game." Children: "Playing with other children." A policy: how to make the city safer? Team adults: "More police!". The one with the kids: "fill the city of children." Again the same questions, whether big, suddenly, becomes creative: how to make the city safer? The losers: "We installed video cameras." The winners: "Take two parents drinking mate in each block."

regard, Tonucci reflects: "Adults have a perverse capacity to think that living alone can be happy. In contrast, children know that to be happy need to others and claim that public spaces, where the public picks up the sense of shared space, and not reserved. " Therefore, neither GDP or inflation, progress must be measured by the ability of adults to put in the heart of society to children and talk to them, that's what differentiates a company from others. Tonucci sums it up: "Children are pretty much everywhere, what changes is the ability of adults to listen and support them in what they propose." Cheaper could not be the formula for progress and happiness to talk to the kids.


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ROSARIO, UNA CIUDAD PIONERA

Francesco Tonucci vino acá para celebrar los diez años de adhesión de Rosario a La ciudad de los niños, una iniciativa mundial que conciencia a la sociedad de que los chicos también son ciudadanos. Como fundador del proyecto, el pedagogo se mostró encantado con los logros rosarinos y destacó la gran creatividad y el empuje del equipo coordinado por Chiqui González y Silvia Alderoqui. Entre las propuestas infantiles implementadas en la ciudad, la favorita del italiano es El día del juego: el primer miércoles de octubre las escuelas abren sólo para jugar, incluso la Policía corta varias streets for people mate and the kids are at ease. The idea was born in 1998 and since then more than 500 companies have joined the celebration and give an hour off her personal. Why? To play, of course.

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Tonucci (1)

Clarín, February 25, 2007, Education section

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The interview with Francesco Tonucci was Pizzurno Palace, after some action on your project City children. Tonucci a nice guy and a tremendous connection with your child part, talked and talked and talked ... And talked. I recorded about 2 hours of talk and, despite Clarin published a few notes with that material, did not exhaust all the ideas that fire inside of this head teacher. I say, and I want to get well at 65.

has been some time since February 2007, however, I still resonates a sense of the encounter: if children occupy the heart of society, be happier and the world would be, as the tango, crap. Learning to listen to the kids is one of the unfinished business of this company, who lives under the dictatorship of adult fancy.


INTERVIEW WITH FRANCESCO ITALIANO PEDAGOGUE Tonucci

"Reading to kids 15 minutes a day is to bring the miracle of reading"

In a return visit to Argentina, the Italian teacher stressed the responsibility of the school in promoting reading. Speaking to Clarín quipped: "Teachers tell me that this is too easy."

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"Most schools in developed countries are illegal." That holds the renowned Italian teacher Francesco Tonucci, referring to that most violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the UN in 1989. According to the promoter of the project The City of Children, the global rules of domestic law is among those who signed it, including Argentina, however, schools often forget Article 12, which defines that children are entitled to express your opinion as this is taken into account. Ie adults should consult with the boys of decisions which affect them, and not arbitrarily impose their views. The law says: dialogue.

Sure, they learn to talk with the children is a subject aware of any adult. So is the educational world. For example, the teacher usually require students to buy all reading the same book. What? The likes it, of course. Tonucci, renowned cartoonist ironic about the school, illustrates the situation with words: "Imagine a room waiting for a train station, we arrived and we see 20 people who read, a rarity in itself. Imagine reading, not a magazine or newspaper, but a book! Now we approach and found that all read the same book. We worry, right? And now we come a little more and we realize that all these people are on the same page .... It seems work of a demon, right? Well, that's what happens at school every day. "

And is that children today are still not the heart of the school. Education systems are not friendly to them, are incapable of caring for the child diversity. In fact, the view that overstate Tonucci reading, writing and arithmetic, to almost consider the unique skills, an approach that excludes many children. "For our educational systems, a child does not have manual skills. I know very well, was an artist and knew how to build my old toys, even me as I continue building ", but it never helped me in school. "

However, the cruelty of the situation does not stop there. "Since the school is democratic, that is, open to all, most guys do not have access to her experience of reading in your family: they have books at home and have never seen their parents read a book. How can they understand then that writing or reading is so important? "He argues. In other words: no adults engaged in reading for pleasure is impossible to transmit that reading does more than highlight the substantive text or know what to ask on an exam. A pleasure is contagious, not imposed.

"So the school has to fill that gap," he explains. "From birth, children need adults who read aloud to share with them the experience of reading, that educated in the excitement of listening." And he proposes to start something right now: "read 15 minutes a day, that's the only way to put them in the miracle of reading, that is, living through the images these words evoke." What about you read? "Novels, to learn to wait and read a book takes time." He adds, laughing: "Teachers tell me that this is too easy."

Easy but unusual. And yet, this is a more democratic base to force the boys to read and more fun than letting them all the weight of learning. But, of course, adults have no time to be democratic or amusing, much less in school. Tonucci would say, the worrying part is that it appears that those adults would never have been children.


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City children

"The child is the epitome of the 'other': it fit all differences, all the differences. So if the mayor is capable of interacting with the children, then it is able to do with any other person, regardless of age, culture, gender, ability ...". According to Francesco Tonucci, that is the philosophical foundation of The City of Children, an initiative that since 1991 the society aware that children are also citizens. Ie adults should consult when building and reorganize public spaces, which are of all: the kids and grand. The project began in frat-his hometown-and has spread to more than 80 Italian cities, English and Argentine. Between 7 here, Rosario is the dean and this year celebrates 10 years of joining the project.

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