REFLECTION

Hello lovely readers!!

It’s Neón. This week we have been working a lot, on Monday we stayed to work the
whole evening. In this task we have learn a lot of things about textbooks and its contents. We
have discovered that the contents in textbooks are not neutral at all; actually they are
influenced by many things as the sociocultural context, the economy in the country and so on.
In the exposition we learnt, thanks to the Erasmus students, how textbooks are used in a really
different way in other countries, because they consider books as a complement and not as the
base of education as in Spain. We have also seen how the point of view for teaching something
can change from a country to another, for example in the subject of history, where is easy to
see how differently conquests are told. Also the textbooks are based on the ideology of the
author, so the contents can’t be neutral. Knowing all this we have seen how all this can affect
to children and to society in general because our opinion and knowledge will be based on
someone’s opinion.
Finally we would like to add that we chose to expose our work as an electoral program to
make people aware of the importance of voting for something as important as choosing for
the rector because it will affect our life in the university for the next years, and what will
happen depends of us.