Matos Moquete raises that the management of education is the most important
Santo Domingo. The writer and linguist Manuel Matos Moquete affirmed that the curricular reforms are an important aspect of education, but not the fundamental one to achieve a good performance in the indicators of educational quality.
"In the country we wanted to solve the problem of education with curricular reforms and there have been great experiments that have shown that this is a very important aspect but the fundamental thing is good management," said the research professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, INTEC, during the circulation of his latest book "One Hundred Years of Teaching Spanish in the Dominican Republic: Historical Perspective".
This is the first publication of a series of works that INTEC will present in August as contributions from the academic areas, in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities and Health Sciences, among others.
He is also a member of the Academy of the Language of the Dominican Republic and a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RAE), explains that good management involves a body of professors whose performance is supervised, people with capacity, vocation and responsibility, but also with availability of materials, adequate infrastructure and resources.
"The rupture and discontinuity are one of the vices of public administration. The fundamental thing does not change, but in the country we change according to the minister; the new authorities will find a current 10-year plan, which should govern, and a proposal for educational reform in its final phase that must be evaluated so as not to jump into the void, "said the researcher, who has participated in this last process as an advisor to the Ministry of Education.
The book analyzes a century of all the situations that influenced the teaching of the Spanish Language subject and how that imported language became the fundamental one. For the author, the teaching of this subject is indivisibly associated with the concepts of homeland and culture.
The research goes from the model of Eugenio María de Hostos to the current one, through the 30 years of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship, the structures defined by Pedro Henríquez Ureña (early 30 years), up to the newly integrated texts discussion in the country. It covers from the legal and normative aspects to the political and intellectual ones.
"At the same time that the concept of the Dominican Nation was being forged, the teaching of Spanish was implemented: a knowledge and practice built in the history of our country with pieces of reading, writing, language, composition, grammar, literature, etc." .
For teachers the book allows us to know how it was evaluated in this subject (which was oral and written, to force the capacity for expression) and what topics are presented as new (such as the global method, which was introduced in the 30 years) have already been worked in the country.
The rector of INTEC, Rolando M. Guzmán, recalled that INTEC opened the first Master's Program in Teaching Spanish as a Mother Tongue at 1987, which trained the first generation of technicians and specialists specifically trained in strategies and techniques to address this thematic This mastery is currently maintained under the coordination of Matos Moquete.
In addition to Moquete and Guzmán, Leandra Tapia, academic vice chancellor, Migdalia Martinez, dean of the Social Sciences and Humanities Area, also headed the ceremony; Ramón Rosario, Director of Publications; Lucero Arboleda, Library Director; and Professor Carlos Cabrera.
Profile of Matos Moquete
Born in Tamayo, Bahoruco Province, he has a master's degree in Modern Literature and a doctorate (PhD) in Literature from the University of Paris IIL. He has stood out for his work as a researcher, teacher, lecturer, novelist, critic and scholar of literature. He is a full professor and researcher at INTEC and a professor at the UASD in the chairs of Linguistics and Literature. He is an advisor to the Ministry of Education and coordinator of the Linguistics Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic.
He has been awarded important prizes, such as: National Novel Prize, for the work "En el atascadero" (1984); Pedro Henríquez Ureña Essay Award for "The Literary Discourse in Hispanic America" (1991); Annual Essay Award for his translinguistic studies (2005); National Didactic Award for "Keys to the analysis of a poem, There is a country in the world" (2005); Annual Essay Award for "Strategy to capture the popular will in 2004 elections (2006); In the 2009 is awarded the Caonabo Gold Award of Letters, the Dominican Association of Journalists and Writers -ADPE- in recognition of the literary work of his life.