Creativity techniques don't develop creativity
Techniques don't create creativity. They can at best provide a framework, but never guarantee it. Innovation is born of the encounter between a mental posture, reflection and the welcoming of the unexpected.
Speak with your mouth full, but in a foreign language
Because it evokes conviviality, hospitality, and exchange, but also because it requires coordination and following instructions, cooking is a particularly rich space for communication. Language teachers have understood this. It is a useful recipe for working on grammar and vocabulary. But cooking also provides an opportunity to address a whole cultural component: lifestyles, geography, agriculture, family organizations,...
The contribution of the deaf to education
Taking a cross-language look at sign language and French, at the power of gesture and the contribution of the deaf to a more sensitive and inclusive pedagogy.
Review evaluation grids with learners
The evaluation grid, often perceived as a simple table, nevertheless concentrates technical, symbolic and political stakes. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, Foucault, Vygotski, Honneth and Sen, this article shows how the co-construction of criteria with learners redefines the pedagogical contract: it exposes power relationships, nurtures intrinsic motivation and paves the way for evaluative justice based on capabilities.
The Iced School of Perseverance
Perseverance in the face of difficulties seems to be largely due to the impression of progressing thanks to one's own value, hence the importance for facilitators of knowing how to withdraw and let this value express itself, or at least give the impression of it. On what else can we build our confidence?