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Parts of textbook sets for third and seventh grade are available on the “Alek Kavčić” Foundation website starting today.
Currently, parts of the textbook sets for the third and seventh grade of primary school, published by the Institute for Textbooks, are available free of charge on the website of the “Alek Kavčić” Foundation.
In that Foundation they say for Danas that this is only the beginning and that in the next few days the fourth and eighth grade sets will be published.
The Foundation’s website currently contains textbooks for Serbian language, mathematics, nature and society and English for the third grade, and books for Serbian, mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering and technology and English for the third and seventh years of studies for the seventh.
All of these textbooks in electronic form are downloadable and printed, but the site states that their use is permitted for personal purposes and their distribution and reproduction is prohibited.
There is also an option to order, and when “clicked” a notification appears that the Foundation is working to provide printed books to students who are interested in the printed form of the textbook at a price of two dinars. per page.
This price is very low and would only cover the costs of labor, materials, printing and distribution, without any benefit. We are in negotiations with potential partner printers that could bear this low price due to the size of their circulation. We hope that at least four months before the start of the school year, in May, we will have a printing and distribution system developed for just two dinars per page. In the meantime, we ask teachers, teachers, and principals, as well as parents who appeal to them, to opt for free textbooks posted on our website at their schools, “the notice reads.
Yesterday we could not find out how the cooperation with the Textbook Institute came about and if it approached other publishers with the idea of handing over its editions to students for free use yesterday, because Alek Kavčić was at the meeting.
Kavčić is an alumnus of the Mathematical Gymnasium and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. The aim of his foundation is, among other things, to provide free textbooks for primary school children in Serbia.
The Textbook Institute tells Danas that they signed a business cooperation agreement with the “Alek Kavčić” Foundation, within which the Foundation purchased 1,000 copies of certain textbooks and workbooks for third, fourth, seventh and eighth grades. .
“The purpose of this cooperation is for the Foundation to donate certain editions of the Institute to primary schools in Serbia, as well as its promotion on the Internet, exclusively on the Foundation’s website. During last year’s state of emergency, the Institute opened free access to all its educational content on its website, which led to cooperation with the “Alek Kavčić” Foundation. Therefore, electronic content will be available to potential users, but exclusively for personal needs and without the right to reproduce and distribute them, ”says the Textbook Institute.
Choice
This is the first school year in which the new third and seventh grade textbooks are valid as students study according to the reformed curriculum. The law provides that for the school year in which the new teaching and learning program is applied for the first time, textbooks are selected for a period of one school year. This means that teachers have the right to choose the editions of another publisher for the next school year or decide again on the books they are working on now. But whatever they choose, schools will have to use it for the next four years. The fourth and eighth grades will enter the reform in the fall, so new textbooks will be published for the subjects of those grades.
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