(May 12, 2011) .- Among the personal privileges and scholars who have achieved and I Hector Aguilar Camin over the last year are meeting with members of the SNTE. Since June last year, in every city we visited organized a meeting with an average of 100 teachers, sectional leaders, school principals and supervisors. Many, many thoughts that these encounters lead us. But one has to do with the contrast between the reality of the Mexican master verbalized and socio-economic reality reflected in hard data.
Basically the theme is the same Humberto Moreira posed with his "miserabilist" effective perhaps, but false: Mexico is a country with increasingly poor, with a smaller middle class, and the only way put an end to this situation is to return the PRI to power. Teachers obviously do not share that view, but sometimes expressed equally distorted vision of reality and of the country.
In one case, when we hear yet again the old song of the rural poor primary school teacher who teaches in the shade of a tree in a desert plain, our correspondent asked if he could give us the percentage of primary schools in Mexico that are rural. Responded that about 70 percent: a figure so far from the truth as close to his heart. In fact, if we look at the numbers, the million-plus elementary school teachers of the SNTE are already part of that vast lower middle class to which they referred Luis Rubio and Luis de la Calle, and inspired by the OECD writing them in a book coming out this week: "Tomorrow or the day after. The mystery of the Mexicans" (Aguilar).
The May issue of Nexus, dedicated to education, including an article by Sylvia Ortega Salazar, rector of the National Pedagogical University and former Secretary of Basic Education, which reproduces the findings of a survey conducted in 2010, among teachers. Leave aside the part of the educational views of themselves and teachers as well as data on age, seniority, promotion via the post, and so on. I'll stick with the social.
80 percent of teachers in Mexico have their own home, 63 percent car; Cell 80 percent and 74 percent computer at home, 81 percent internet. In any imaginable sense these are data from an urban middle class with an education level higher than the average Mexican: 75 percent say they have a degree from an institution of higher education dedicated to teacher training (how much the meal is normal schools another story.)
Perhaps the most interesting of all is his self. A staggering 83 percent describes himself as belonging to the middle class. Federico Reyes Heroles had unearthed similar data for Mexican society as a whole, in a survey in 2001 and says in "The Bicentennial Opportunity." He remarked, quite rightly, that in the case of all Mexicans the data is obviously false, and contains more aspirational connotations: 82 percent of Mexicans would be middle class, when a lot today are 56 or 57 by percent.
But in the case of teachers, both higher educational attainment as the socioeconomic realities described in the survey cited in Nexus, it may be that that 83 percent aspirational but not substantive (status who have legitimately won the Over the past 20 years). It is an impressive figure for those who still believe in rural Mexico, poor, illiterate, sick and pre-modern golden age of education Cardenas.
another thing altogether if the education that these teachers taught middle class is what the country needs, deserves and pays. I think not, and I think they have a major responsibility for this failure. But not because they are "the wretched of the earth", but precisely because the middle class. Jorge G.
Castañeda
jorgegcastaneda@gmail.com
Basically the theme is the same Humberto Moreira posed with his "miserabilist" effective perhaps, but false: Mexico is a country with increasingly poor, with a smaller middle class, and the only way put an end to this situation is to return the PRI to power. Teachers obviously do not share that view, but sometimes expressed equally distorted vision of reality and of the country.
In one case, when we hear yet again the old song of the rural poor primary school teacher who teaches in the shade of a tree in a desert plain, our correspondent asked if he could give us the percentage of primary schools in Mexico that are rural. Responded that about 70 percent: a figure so far from the truth as close to his heart. In fact, if we look at the numbers, the million-plus elementary school teachers of the SNTE are already part of that vast lower middle class to which they referred Luis Rubio and Luis de la Calle, and inspired by the OECD writing them in a book coming out this week: "Tomorrow or the day after. The mystery of the Mexicans" (Aguilar).
The May issue of Nexus, dedicated to education, including an article by Sylvia Ortega Salazar, rector of the National Pedagogical University and former Secretary of Basic Education, which reproduces the findings of a survey conducted in 2010, among teachers. Leave aside the part of the educational views of themselves and teachers as well as data on age, seniority, promotion via the post, and so on. I'll stick with the social.
80 percent of teachers in Mexico have their own home, 63 percent car; Cell 80 percent and 74 percent computer at home, 81 percent internet. In any imaginable sense these are data from an urban middle class with an education level higher than the average Mexican: 75 percent say they have a degree from an institution of higher education dedicated to teacher training (how much the meal is normal schools another story.)
Perhaps the most interesting of all is his self. A staggering 83 percent describes himself as belonging to the middle class. Federico Reyes Heroles had unearthed similar data for Mexican society as a whole, in a survey in 2001 and says in "The Bicentennial Opportunity." He remarked, quite rightly, that in the case of all Mexicans the data is obviously false, and contains more aspirational connotations: 82 percent of Mexicans would be middle class, when a lot today are 56 or 57 by percent.
But in the case of teachers, both higher educational attainment as the socioeconomic realities described in the survey cited in Nexus, it may be that that 83 percent aspirational but not substantive (status who have legitimately won the Over the past 20 years). It is an impressive figure for those who still believe in rural Mexico, poor, illiterate, sick and pre-modern golden age of education Cardenas.
another thing altogether if the education that these teachers taught middle class is what the country needs, deserves and pays. I think not, and I think they have a major responsibility for this failure. But not because they are "the wretched of the earth", but precisely because the middle class. Jorge G.
Castañeda
jorgegcastaneda@gmail.com
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Teachers have greatly improved their socioeconomic conditions in the past 15 years along with the rest of Mexico. Today the middle class is more than half of the population. None of this was 20, 30 or 40 years. How sad that the teachers themselves do not recognize the improvement and sold to the highest bidder (political parties, HONEYCOMB, Elba Esther Gordillo) to keep their cushy without improving the educational level of children and youth.
And yet there are those who say we are worse than ever.
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