Pedagogy 2011 to Show Experiences of ALBA Member Nations

HAVANA, Cuba - Under the slogan "For the Unity of Educators", Education ministers of the countries that are members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) will share their experiences during the congress Pedagogy 2011.

The event, to be held from January 24th through the 28th at Havana’s Convention Center, will allow for academicians and professors to exchange their experiences on the main achievements made in this sphere.

In addition to know more about research works solving educational problems, the forum will include a program of debates, exhibitions and visits to schools of different teaching levels, said Eva Escalona, president of the event’s scientific committee in an interview with the Prensa Latina news agency.

She specified that the Cuban ministers of Education (Ena Elsa Velazquez,) and Higher Education (Miguel Diaz-Canel), will give lectures, as well as the Venezuelan ministers of Education (Jennifer Gil) and University Education (Edgardo Antonio Ramirez).

Likewise, the participation of Bolivian Education Minister Roberto Aguilar has been scheduled, and the visit of ministers from African nations has been confirmed, stated Escalona, who is also the Cuban Education Ministry’s director for Science and Technology.

The meeting’s agenda will also include the results of Cuba’s international cooperation in this field, including the implementation of the "Yes I Can" literacy teaching method, by way of which some five million people in about twenty countries have learned how to read and
write.

She added that organizers expect the event to welcome over 3,000 foreign participants, that there are some 2,800 papers confirmed, and that meeting’s objective is to maintain the high academic level reached in previous editions of the Congress.

The Venezuelan and Mexican delegations, in that order, are the largest, with over 1,000 members each, followed by those of Cuba and Brazil, with 600 and 500, respectively-,.pointed out Escalona, after clarifying that figures are not definitive.(acn)