The pedagogy of the out-of-home
Schools isolate young people behind walls and often turn in on themselves, around programs, learning situations and evaluation where children sometimes have difficulty finding meaning. This is the observation made by Guillaume Sabin in "La joie du dehors".
How can we build a pedagogy that is open to the outside world, where students can meet the actors of the economic, cultural and social life? Guillaume Sabin gives us some ideas.
Inquiry, dialogue and confrontation: the new levers of critical thinking in training
Adults are confronted with unprecedented information inflation, competing expert discourses and digital devices whose logic remains opaque. Critical thinking is essential if they are to cope with the errors of algorithms. What teaching methods are the most appropriate?
Successful public speaking is first and foremost about dominating a place.
Can you speak in different places and express yourself in the same way? How does a place shape our expression? How can we tame the places where we speak, and learn from them in the process?
Moving furniture in my classroom? I dream about it...
Except in experimental settings, the classroom hasn't changed much in over a century. It's made up of rows of chairs and tables (or bench-tables) arranged in onion rows facing a blackboard, and this is what distinguishes it from any other room dedicated to work.
Conversation to acquire a new language
Learning a language requires reading and listening to lexemes, but it may also require pronouncing them. Thus, teachers are invited to create moments of discussion in a foreign language. A formative approach that gives meaning to learning.