• Submitted by: manso
• Society
• 01 / 24 / 2011

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Havana, Jan 23 (Prensa Latina) The organizers of the "Pedagogy 2011" Congress in Havana are giving the final touches to its opening next Monday 24.  More than 3,600 delegates from 23 countries, including ALBA and African ministers, will be welcomed.

During the Congress, January 24-28, the Cuban Education Minister Ena Elsa Velazquez, the Cuban Minister of Higher Education Miguel Diaz-Canel and Roberto Aguilar, Minister of Education of Bolivia will give lectures.

Venezuelan Minister of Education, Jennifer Gil, will present the experiences of Canaima Plan, an educative program in Venezuela that will provide laptop computers for first and second-grade students.

The Congress will be held at the Convention Palace in this city. Among the presentation will be the experience of Cuban educational collaboration on literacy, as Cuba celebrates 50 years of the literacy campaign by which Cuba became the first country in Latin America declared free of illiteracy in 1961.

During the congress several teachers will present their experiences in the putting into practice of the â??Yes, I can" program, with which more than 5 million people have been made literate in more than 20 countries.

According to the records of the organizing committee more than 54,300 teachers around the world participated in the previous congresses, which began in 1986.

Its main objective is to seek solutions to educational problems.

This time 2,800 works will be presented, a figure that exceeds those reported in the previous congress in 2009.sus/as/yrc/jl/ro

Source: PL