(24 Dec 2014) A group of professors from Venezuela's most prestigious university say they've found rampant political propaganda in school textbooks praising the socialist government that came to power during Hugo Chavez's rule.
Fifteen-years after Chavez's so-called Bolivarian revolution, professors from the Central University of Venezuela say government-issued books are ideologically-driven.
Students learn math by calculating the benefits of the government's land nationalization program and study English by repeating conversations praising socialist programs.
Mathematics professor Tomas Guardia is one of 11 academics who undertook a nine-month study of 70 textbooks the government rolled out in 2011.
"It is abundant in all the books. The new edition, of this year, which I have already reviewed, has significantly reduced the political propaganda, but it's not entirely absent," Guardia said.
The study follows two other academic reviews that have questioned the pedagogy of the government-issued books.
In 2008, Chavez was forced to backtrack on a school textbook overhaul after teachers and parents accused him of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas.
But in 2011, the state released new textbooks under the banner of the "Bicentennial Collection," named in honour of Venezuela's two centuries of independence.
The government said the books corrected the errors of past education models, correctly denouncing colonial heroes as murderers, and tweaking math and science lessons to connect to the real world.
It is estimated that the collection is in use at 80 percent of schools.


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