President of (Brazilian Association of Educational Book Authors), Cecilia Condeixa states that the evaluation of the ruralist bench that it does not match reality and disputes the research used as the basis for the group’s findings.
Condeixa referred to statements by Deputy Tião Medeiros (PP-PR) to the panel in which he cited a study of the association. The parliamentarian says he was surprised to find that 60% of the mentions of Brazilian agribusiness in textbooks were pejorative and were unaccompanied by bibliographic references.
Abrale’s president states that, at least with regard to public education, it includes an evaluation stage that welcomes hundreds of books, of which only one installment is approved – 700, between elementary and high school levels.
“This argument of them that they find themselves portrayed in a pejorative form in textbooks, in the material that is produced to be used by the MEC system, does not match reality,” says Condeixa.
It questions the sampling used and the methodology. “There are 94 books. Besides being not representative, we do not know where this sample came from,” he continues.
Abrale’s president says she see “more precariously on her material than in any approved didactic book.” “No doubt. This has no scientific basis,” he says.
João Demarchi, a focal point between the FIA/USP and the association with an eye on school supplies defends the methodology used. “It is based on science. This material is extremely representative. There is no problem with the sample,” he says.
He also states that research in the books was done from automation mechanisms, with words or terms. “We analyzed and transformed each of these mentions into a reference unit,” he says, arguing that there would be no need to read an entire book from this approach.
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