CUBA, January 29, 2009. Media sabotage of family education and teaching impotence in adverse contexts are on the table Thursday of the 11th Congress "Pedagogia 2009." Daily challenges teachers must face in Latin America increase with technological development and the economic crisis, a harsh reality narrated by participants in this biennial event. Several delegates lament that the need of earning ones daily bread takes up time and limits affection for children. Venezuelan Lilia Rodriguez called to join institutional alliances to foster human values during childhood, because children see a lot of violence on TV. Dominican teacher Lidia Gomez, who accused media of ruining what her family does, also stated that violence is omnipresent. Participants in the congress praised the Cuban government's commitment to its educational system, which launched a new website. Cuba psychologist Patricia Ares held globalization is responsible for the mutation of the ancestral concept of family. Nearly 3,000 delegates from 44 countries are debating this and other issues in this congress that every two years analyzes and evaluates Latin American teaching.(Cubaminrex- PL) |