The Ministry of Education conducted presentation of “Improvement of reading culture and motivation to reading” project on december 16.
Mikayil Jabbarov, minister of education, members of Milli Majlis, Anar Rzayev, chairman of Azerbaijan Union of Writers, leaders of non-governmental organizations, directors of the secondary schools of Baku and Sumgait, took part in the presentation held in the secondary school no.23 named after Tahir Hasanov Baku city. Welcoming visitors, Yuliya Karimova director of the secondary school no. 23, conducted project’s presentation. Importance of increase of reading culture and interest to reading in the pupils, has been stressed in the presentation.
Then, club’s members organized from the pupils who study at different age groups, discussed the books red by them. Discussion has been followed by event’s participants with a great interest. Visitors joined in discussion with minister’s offer and told their opinions related to the books red by the pupils.
Expressing his gratitude to creative persons for joining in the discussions of reading clubs, minister pointed that, project will increase reading motivation of secondary schools’ pupils and affect to development of their’s artistic aesthetic taste, moral education. According to the minister, publicity of reading will positively affect to formation of wide outlook in the pupils. Correctly organized and planned reading gives pleassure senses to human alongside with enlargement of knowdledge.
Addressing to the writers, Mikayil Jabbarov invited them actively to take part in compilation of new stories that belong to child literature, composition that are appropriate to modern period, generally creation of new content: “We are ready to settle organizational issues related to this issue, deliver new compositions in all learners, place them in the new libraries. We intend to use this content in the teaching programs, textbooks or extracurricular reading activity appropriately.”
Minister also pointed great responsibility of parents in improvement of reading culture in the pupils. Parents who take all care of their children, also should pay attention to creation of reading habit in them. In this regard, Mikayil Jabbarov announced interesting statistics. 60 % of under school age children of United States of America daily read tens of books.
Anar, chairman of Azerbaijan Union of Writers (AUW) and Cingiz Abdullayev, secretary of union appreciated importance of project. Appreciating the issues performed by The Mnistry of Education on the direction of improvement of pupils’ reading culture, Azerbaijan Union of Writers’s officials stated their further support in this process.
It should be pointed that, main goal of project is to increase reading interest in the pupils, agitate acquaintance of the pupils with fiction, documental composition and other text type.
Valuation, exchange of literature red among the pupils and teachers, different text types via discussion, creation of reflective reading habits in the pupils, are envisaged within framework of project.
08.07.2015 - 16:52
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