José B. Duarte

Org.

January, 2010

Year of edition

978-972-8881-77-1

ISBN

Synopsis – [Textbooks and Learning Dynamics: Can Textbooks Contribute to School Transformation?].

Recent research has shown disenchantment and some indiscipline towards school, phenomena that some studies associate with social factors but also with the predominance of an expositional and demotivating model. Can the school be something else, organizing tasks that awaken the students' interest? On the other hand, textbooks, which are repositories of practices but also a determining tool of pedagogical action (as several authors underline), can contribute to another teacher's professionalism and to a more stimulating school? And, considering the proposal to develop skills from problematic situations, in classes and in textbooks?