Convivience Pluricultural: Paraguay
Convivience Pluricultural is one of the programmes in the World Links for Development, an initiative that provides internet connectivity and training for teachers in developing countries. The Paraguayan project is aimed at helping teachers and their pupils understand how different cultures can co-exist with and accommodate different cultures sharing their territory. Evaluations carried out by staff of Stanford in the USA give very positive feedback. Nearly 600 teachers are currently participating.
There is no set curriculum or course. Teachers, together with their pupils, build their links and exchanges of ideas across the world in their own way.
Ownership, therefore, is an issue but also we think here, a sense of teachers responding to the notion of enquiry: the technologies give them access to new forms of enquiry and research previously impossible to contemplate.
