Publish at March 08 2023 Updated March 08 2023
Pedagogical innovation is the stuff of dreams for trainers and teachers. The regular reappearance of alternative pedagogy proposals such as "the inverted classroom" or "the ignorant teacher" always provokes the same craze followed, in many cases, by a certain disappointment. Even if the proposal of alternative pedagogy is interesting, it also has its limit, the one given by the field of application. The problem is not the method but the expectation that one has with regard to it.
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