Human endurance: techniques for building resilience in teachers and students
"My students cry in class after a negative comment online, and I lose patience with the constant interruptions."
Social networks are eroding teachers' and students' resilience to stress. This article explores the technological challenges and proposes concrete solutions.
Are some remedies worse than the disease, in ecology as in economics?
We're facing a lot of challenges, and we need to put dogma aside. The most important thing is to convince rather than coerce, in order to rally as many people as possible to the causes that concern us all.
Voluntary submission
Understanding voluntary submission today requires a shift in perspective: the issue is no longer merely visible obedience, but the invisible conditions that make certain orientations seem desirable, natural, or obvious.
Influencing one's own future: individual or collective agentivity for learning
The role of human agentivity, whether individual or collective, is essential to guarantee a commitment to learning, especially in distance learning. Psychological, bodily, affective and cognitive fluidity is one of the key conditions for increasing the feeling of control over one's learning goals and maintaining motivation.
The most powerful policy for improving education is poverty reduction.
A small reduction in family poverty leads to significant increases in positive school behaviour and better academic performance. With supporting data and statistics.