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The results of the study that analyzed the criteria used by teachers of Languages in the selection, production and evaluation of Teaching Materials (TM) in their classroom contexts, in different Institutes of Teacher Training of Argentina are presented. The objectives were to investigate assumptions and implicit conceptions when making the selection of teaching materials and analyze production / elaboration and evaluation strategies. A cross-sectional descriptive design was adopted based on a survey and interview study, where 83 teachers of Languages - maternal and foreign - from institutions of Higher Non-University Level, State Management responded. Some conclusions: a) The criteria used to select the TM were accessibility, update, authenticity, complexity, interactivity, relevance, transversality; b) The TM should promote a higher level of student participation; c) Before TM who do not meet the requirements, teachers prepare their TM; d) Intercultural dialogue in the TMs is not always present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the result of a classroom experience carried out in the subject Contemporary World at a Higher Education Institution for Teacher Training, in Mar del Plata, Argentina. he aim was to demonstrate the current importance of the space metaphor: "left and right" in politics and education. In this class, it arises as a primary need to teach students that reality is unavoidably crossed by ideologies which, in turn, influence their own ways of perception. his study retells part of that class experience as an attempt to overcome the political illiteracy sadly set up in our teacher training classrooms. The main interest was focused on raising student awareness that education and teaching practices are political and that they assume ideals of man and world that always have a tendency (left or right), which we should also be aware of to know --among other things- what for, whom and from what position we are educating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]