Textbook-Obstacle-or-Facilitator

TEXTBOOK: Obstacle or Facilitator Of The Learning? Author: Adriana Fernández Reiris* e-mail:adrireiris@hotmail. com A Constant Argument Creator As preamble, we want to evoke some images. Firstly the comic by the Italian humorist named Francesco Tonucci,... More

TEXTBOOK: Obstacle or Facilitator Of The Learning? Author: Adriana Fernández Reiris* e-mail:adrireiris@hotmail. com A Constant Argument Creator As preamble, we want to evoke some images. Firstly the comic by the Italian humorist named Francesco Tonucci, who drew, in a vignette a smiling teacher who is hugged firmly by a book which says “Don’t worry”, and in another comic, a teacher holding a book-presumably a textbook- in her arms, looking as if she were breastfeeding it who, enthusiastically and with her eyes closed says “I have adopted a book”. Secondly, one of the few mischievous attitudes done by Lisa Simpson, on the TV series: she hides all the “teacher’s books” in a closet. They cannot work in class and she’s almost expelled from school. Thirdly, there appear two well-know proverbs, which illustrate the walls, sometimes impenetrable from a classroom: “Cada maestrillo con su librillo” (Every Teacher must have a book) and “Quítale su librillo y cata muerto al maestrillo” (A Tea Less