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The lecture addressed the Brazilian experience within the Free Textbook Distribution Program for public schools, contextualizing its relevance for basic education in the country. In addition, the speakers discussed how the issue of “fake news” is treated in the textbooks of Applied Human and Social Sciences, distributed by the Brazilian government in the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, with a focus on the most widely used collections: Multiversos and Moderna Plus. The lecture presented the results of an exploratory, descriptive and infometric research, analyzing the contents of these works, highlighting trends, pedagogical approaches and possible gaps in the treatment of the subject.
How school textbooks deal with fake news
The Digital Library of Cuban School Textbooks displays a sample of books published for teaching purposes in Cuba from 1899 onwards, coinciding with the end of the Spanish colonial period on the Island. The library includes books on Reading, History, Geography, Moral and Civic Education, Natural Sciences and Pedagogy from the José Martí National Library in Havana.
The digitisation of the collection was carried out by the Instituto de Historia de Cuba (Havana), with the support of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (Braunschweig, Germany). This collaboration has been carried out in the framework of the international undertaking Global Textbook Resource Center (GLOTREC), in which the MANES Research Center participates. GLOTREC integrates bibliographic information on textbooks and educational media of collections worldwide into a multi-lingual catalogue with the aim of providing access to the data and existing digitised volumes (if licence-free) to researchers and the general public.
The creation of this Digital Library is the result of a collaboration agreement signed between the Instituto de Historia de Cuba and the MANES Research Centre. Its objective is to contribute to the preservation of an important part of the educational and cultural heritage of the Cuban nation and to make it accessible to researchers and scholars in the field of the History of Education.
Access to the Digital Library of Cuban School Textbooks