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| Type | Broadcasttelevision network |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Availability | National |
| Founded | June 2, 1995 byMinistry of Education |
| Headquarters | Brasília |
| Owner | Roquette Pinto Foundation |
Launch date | March 4, 1996 |
| Dissolved | April 26, 2022 |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Official website | tvescola.mec.gov.br |
| Replaced by | Canal Educação Canal Libras |
TV Escola (literally in English: School TV) is a Brazilianpublic broadcastingtelevision network created byMinistry of Education of Brazil in 1995. First broadcast in 1996 in a nationwide transmission, it airs exclusively educational programs.
The project "TV Escola" was legally approved on June 2, 1995 as part of Strategic Planning ofMinistry of Education of Brazil. It was launched by ministerPaulo Renato Souza through the Secretariat for Development, Innovation and Educational Evaluation (SEDIAE) on an experimental basis on September 4, 1995 in two schools ofTeresina,Piauí. Its first nationwide broadcast occurred on March 4, 1996. On May 27, 1996, the Ministry of Education of Brazil extinguished SEDIAE and created the Secretariat for Distance Education (SEED) to assign TV Escola.[1] Aimed to teachers, it was created to support them as an educational tool, and both to supplement their own training, and for use in their teaching practices.[2] The oldest of two Federal programs created to support technological innovation in Brazil, TV Escola also distributes television sets,videocassette recorders, andsatellite dishes to schools.[3][4]
On December 15, 2003, the then-Minister of Education,Cristovam Buarque, launched the project "TV Escola Interativa" in a partnership withUniversidade Mackenzie.[5] The project initially occurred in sevenstates of Brazil—Acre,Ceará,Espírito Santo,Goiás,Maranhão,Mato Grosso do Sul, andRio Grande do Sul, distributing in three schools of each state a multimedia kit.[6] The kit allowed to record seven days of programing inCD-ROMs, and to contact TV Escola through telephone ande-mail, allowing the viewer to send suggestions and participate indistance education courses.[5][6]
TV Escola's programming is available throughsatellite television—which includesanalog anddigital television—,cable television, its official website, andapplications for devices withiOS andAndroid system.[7] It consists of twenty-four hours of educational TV series, cartoons and documentaries divided into five streams; three of them are aimed to teachers of children education, elementary education, and high school, respectively. The other two are "Salto para o Futuro" (lit. "Leap to the Future")—programs used as a support for teacher training courses and college courses—and "Escola Aberta" ("Open School"), which broadcast programs linking school and community. There is also schedules for teaching English, Spanish and French.[8]
