This time I lose my common economical sense, or I am turning to be a complete fanatic. Yeap, what it happened is I had enter one of those places full of magazines, just that magazines. This one in specific was bigger than the bookstore in downtown Joensuu. And it is a pity I can’t download my pictures right now in order for me to show it (an image talks more than 100 words), but later I will do it. In any case, I got as a child in a toy store, specially in those sections in which I have a personal interest, as MAC stuff for example. In any case, on the games section, there were over 30 different types of magazines. Oh my!!! I think until now I got conscience of that fact.
On the other hand, I know I have been delaying my decision-request or an application of a wish list for new games for our group. In a way, something was stopping me to decided myself on this topic. Now I know why, and now I am really making this list based not only on theoretical fundaments of my internet search, and/or personal taste. Also from print press done by different ages groups, tastes, languages, etc. Then yes, the crazy thing I did, is ALL the magazines I bought. And I didn’t get all of them ‘cos I didn’t have the money, otherwise careful !!!, but you will see what I got. Crazy!!!! (but happy!)
Later on, while waiting for a train and reading a book, I got a new question. Aren’t educational magazines for teachers or for people which are interested in teaching-learning situations?! . Let me explain, as in books store, this magazines are organized by topics, you can find magazines of all kinds: TV, entertainment, sex, photography, sports, family, wedding, cloths, cartoons, parents, home, gardens, cars, programming, music, religion, health, knowledge, gossips, politic, business, etc. But there is nothing on the topic of teachers or education as a topic itself.
It might be that those topics are implicit, or merge into the other diversity of topics. As how to teach your kid to go potty training. But if I am someone with interest in education in general and read a magazine only on education, there is not a specific section of it. Then I though it would be such an exclusive activity that you can’t find it in a common daily life magazine that “common” people can read at any time? I know there exist journals, conferences, of each field but you also can buy daily life magazines to have an idea of what is going on in a diversity of fields from another perspective which is the opinion of people who are not involved in research itself, but they are informing in another way.. But I haven’t top myself with one of this type into this general teaching-learning, or does someone has seen one!?