In order to improve the quality of textbooks, the Ministry of Education, this school year, for the first time, has offered teachers the opportunity to choose alternative textbooks. Teachers have chosen between basic and alternative textbooks of various publishing houses, and the ministry has been distributing textbooks in schools since Thursday.
Although alternative textbooks are allowed under the Law on the publication of textbooks, teaching aids, textbooks and pedagogical documentation, there are doubts about the management of the selection of alternative textbooks and the possibility for publishing houses to influence the selection of their textbooks…
