The Pre-Texts initiative in Paraguay focuses on Basic School Education for sixth-grade educators and students. It includes training pedagogical coordinators in the use and implementation of the Pre-Texts methodology in the classroom. The aim is to evaluate its impact on academic performance among sixth-grade students in schools across Asunción, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, and Mariano Roque Alonso.
In the video, sixth-grade teachers from Paraguay, alongside José Molinas, Director of Instituto Desarrollo which oversees this program for the Ministry of Education, create a song with the main point art inspired by their reading of The Ignorant Schoolmaster by Jacques Rancière: explanations don’t work, but desire drives learning…