El papel que desempeña el texto escolar del Ministerio de Educación de preparatoria, en el diseño y desarrollo del currículo en el primer año de educación general básica de la Unidad Educativa Municipal del Milenio Bicentenario de la ciudad de Quito.

Abstract

“The role of the school textbook of Ministry of Education in the Elementary school in regard to the curriculum desing and development in the first grade of the general basic education program of the Bicentenario School”, is to know the use, structure and correlation of the textbook with the school environment. For these reasons is necessary to have an analysis and investigation of the resource in the Elementary level. As a result of the research, the Ministry of Education distributes four textbooks, for it , this analysis was focused on the textbook “Relaciones Lógico Matemáticas”. The goal of this research is to discover the role of textbook in this clasroom due to the fact that there is evidence that there are not researches about this issue; therefore, It is important to perform this research. The design of the present work is base don two chapters. The first one states what a textbook is due to its structure, de sing characteristics, purpose, quality, content progression, and criteria to select a textbook. The school textbook of Relaciones Lógico Matemáticas comprises its curriculum, functions, characteristics, and traits of the Elementary students, the second chapter is supported by the analysis of the methodology that addresses this research by showing evidence of the results. This study applies a qualitative methodology through a diary and sheets of analysis of the structure of the textbook and the interview.