the title of the Book is ”Liber’s Social studies for secondary schools”. It is available in three variants, designed for three different upper secondary: 1B, 1A1 and 123.
the Contents are partially overlapping. For example, can be found all the material from 1B-variation in the 123-variant. All of the books year of publication is 2018. The first book in the series was published in 2012. Scholastic today has a turnover of 353 million.
course 1B-variant are the following factual errors:
”the body which has The task to coordinate the labour market policies is the national labour market board, AMS [sic].” It stands to read under the heading ”Labour market measures”.
On the same page it says also, under the heading of ”Open and hidden unemployment”, ”Education through AMS” and ”AMS”.
the Board ended on 31 december 2007. Since January 2008 the employment services the state government agency in Sweden that has the overall responsibility for labour market measures.
is the president of Liber. She confirms to DN that there have been errors in their issuance.
– We edit and faktagranskar all our texts, but unfortunately it happens still that ambiguity, and felformuleringar slip through the cracks. It depends entirely on the human factor and we are constantly working to improve our procedures, ” she says.
She believes that Was previously already familiar with the error relating to the Ams.
” That is true, here it should be the public employment service instead. We have previously drawn attention to this and will of course correct in the next print of the book.
Weronika Duvmo, head of Liber Photo: Pressphoto.
it says: ”the Fact is that a lot of the disposable income is also paid as tax. In the price of most goods and services is a value added tax, or vat. In most cases, vat is 25% of the product price.”
the rate is 20% of the price. Momspålägget must be 25% of the product price, excluding vat, in order that it will correspond to 20% of the price including vat.
– We agree that the sentence needs to be reworded. We will correct this also in the next print, ” says Weronika Duvmo.
describes it to read: ”Fiscal policy means that the state and municipalities are trying to control the flow of money to and from the inner part of the natural cycle by increasing and reducing its revenue and expenditure.”
the Municipalities has no fiscal policy. Fiscal policy is something that only the government, through the parliamentary budgetary decisions, may engage in.
This sentence is not incorrect, according to Weronika Duvmo.
– We would be able to clarify in the next print. The government and the riksdag sets the fiscal policy and the municipalities are implementing fiscal policy in practice. In the fiscal use of the whole of the public sector, ” she says.
the World today has a turnover of 353 million. But the publisher would not comment on how big the edition is for ”Liber’s Social studies for secondary schools”.
insists that it is serious about the study materials used in teaching contains incorrect information.
” We teachers do not have time to review the study materials. I don’t understand why we completely rely on the market to solve quality nonconformities. Everything was not better before, but the one thing that worked better was that the state was responsible to make sure that the teaching material was in line with the curriculum and that they were factually correct, ” he says.
Isak Skogstad is a secondary school teacher and skoldebattör. ”We teachers do not have time to review the study materials. I can’t understand why we completely rely on the market to solve quality nonconformities,” he says. Photo: Ernst Henry
He believes that teachers should be able to a little on the materials that reach the market, especially when the books come from well-established publishers.
– Unfortunately it is not so, and it has become worse in recent years. During the greater part of the 1900s, we had a state quality control of study material, but it was unfortunately with the kommunaliseringen, ” says Isak Skogstad and continues:
– Läromedelsutbudet has increased exponentially in the last few years. Many actors competing in the market, but it seems not to have contributed to the improvement of quality, only more carelessly designed study materials. They are maybe cheaper, but in principle all the worse.
the DN has been in contact with the author of the book of Daniel West. He announces that he and Was chosen to give a common answer in the question. The publisher’s response is also his.
