Mª Luz as a translator

Hello everyone!
I'm MªLuz, and I have been the translator this week when we have discuss about textbooks and its desadvantages. It is a interesting content because we know that many teachers want to change their methods in order to teach but, do they choose their own methods?

First of all, we have to know different concepts that will help us to understand the really textbook world.

- Editorials: Type of company in charge of editing and providing books in order to send it.

- Methodology: The system of methods and principles used in a particular discipline. In this case we can define how teachers decide to give lessons.
(Wordreference, 2014)

- Business: Organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are prevalent in capitalist economies where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services to customers for profit. We can say that editorials believe eduacation like a business, since if they send more books they will make money.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)

- Curriculum: The planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives. Teachers have to teach certain concepts that appear in an official curriculum. Moreover, they have to evaluate according to this document.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)

- Textbooks: Manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)

I have chosen this concepts because all of them are member of a educational chain. I mean, we can see TEXTBOOKS in a school, because we need it in order to comply our stage of education. Schools and teachers use a lot of books, for this, they request advice on how to use them. That is why EDITORIALS see in the sale of books a opportunity to obtain more profits,but sometimes editorials would see education like a BUSINESS, no like a right.  Moreover, schools have to follow a CURRICULUM where appear the contents and objectives that they have to get, therefore schools look for "the best" METHODOLOGY in order to teach, but are books really appropiate for teaching? Could we change our traditional way?

I think that Education is more important than a business, so editorials would have think more on children than theirselves. Besides, schools as teachers must improve or innovate the class and the methodology, set aside the books and the enormous amount of contents that we can find in them.

Finally, I want to congratulate to Mercedes Ruiz (you can find her on Twitter @londoness) for her visit. We enjoyed a lot with her and we leart so much about new methodology that we will be able to practice.
Have a nice week!