Reconceptualizing language teaching: an in-service teacher education course in uzbekistan

Courses in ethics, religion
Country’s 
schools also get bad marks when it comes to social concerns 
- with serious consequences. The country has the highest suicide rate 
among young people. “The role of the teacher has been completely deval-
ued in the last 20 years, and this development begins to emerge as early 
as pre-school. Everything is oriented around the computer and not around 
the teacher,” said Person’s name.
New courses, new exams, but the same problems?
An international study showed that Finland’s elementary teachers earn 
much higher salaries than teachers in grades with older students. The ratio-
nale is that elementary school teachers do not primarily convey knowledge, 
but rather promote the ability to think critically, which demands a high 
degree of pedagogical skill. However, the opposite holds true in Country’s 
name
. Elementary teachers earn too little and are not sufficiently trained, 
Person’s name
says. As is often the case, Country’s response to the situation 
is to issue an official decree. In a few schools, a new subject has been intro-
duced: foundations of religious cultures and secular ethics.
Parents can decide what their children should learn: the basics of Is-
lam, Buddhism, Judaism or more general topics like worldwide religious 
cultures or secular ethics. But a number of experts think little of the new 
courses.” Research has shown that parents do not approve of the curricu-
lum, and the teachers are not really prepared to give instruction in these 
areas,” said Person’s name of the Organization’s name.
Person’s name
believes that education in questions of faith and ethics 
should be integrated into other subjects rather than being treated in a 

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single course, handed down from the government. Schools and parents 
should also have more room to decide what their children learn, she said.
After all, the Country’s population is gradually coming to assert more 
autonomy when it comes to education, although there have not yet been 
official and pointed protests against the problems in the school system.
Author: Person’s name 
Editor: Person’s name
2. The teacher asks students to answer the following questions: 
a) Within the text:
i) What is the meaning of “centralized university entrance exams” in the 
text? Why was it introduced in Country Name in the 2000s, and not in the 
United States, for example?
ii) What is the meaning of “…actual learning and knowledge fades 
more and more into the background…”? The quote is in the Deeper prob-