Argentinian universities expand classroom outreach with Quechua lessons and pedagogical workshop

Students from the Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (UNSE) organized an intercultural classroom activity at the Horacio Germinal Rava School (No 1049) in El Puestito. The initiative, part of the Lectoescritura en Lengua Materna extension project, involved future teachers of the Tecnicatura Superior en Educación Intercultural Bilingüe. They led a session called “Pinto y nombro,” where primary‑school pupils identified local fauna, colored illustrations and wrote the animal names in Quechua, culminating in an acrostic and mimed presentations. The program aimed to bring the Quechua language into daily school life and strengthen ties between the university and regional schools.

Separately, the Facultad de Ingeniería of the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Cuyo (UNCUYO) held the first in‑person meeting of the Ateneo Didáctico “Laboratorio de Prácticas Pedagógicas.” Organized by the university’s Service of Pedagogical Support to Teachers and the Directorate of Modalities and Educational Technologies, the hybrid event gathered engineering faculty to reflect on teaching practices, analyse real classroom cases and co‑design new pedagogical interventions. The meeting concluded with plans to publish the workshop’s results in July 2026.