Developing a learning region beyond its borders
Rethinking development support with Bruno Latour.
Resonance as a theory of learning
Resonance, whether emotional, cognitive, behavioral or bodily, amplifies our relationship to the world. We would be less the exclusive plaything of easily traceable interpersonal interactions, than caught in a skein of resonances encompassing all the dimensions of the being and of the environment in which it bathes.
Empathy, sympathy and compathy
Empathy is invited in the reflections on the professions of the relationship. The manager and the teacher must "be empathetic". But empathy is not sympathy. These two postures imply the existence of another posture that we will call compathy
Emotion incarnate
What are the conditions for the emergence of embodied emotion and its potential for learning?
Genetics, the best predictor of academic success?
Are we genetically predisposed to succeed or fail at school? The idea is in itself highly controversial. However, with the advances in genetics over the last few decades, some people have been proposing this avenue for some years now.