New directions for study tours in Switzerland
Switzerland is known for its study abroad and sports trips, but the COVID era has changed things a lot and the notion of sustainable trips with the participation of classes in the organization is starting to take hold.
Humans in continuity with their environment
A plea text that shows that knowledge passes through a human, its environment and transforms itself, and is not a cut-out of the living. On this condition, knowledge is alive and regenerating.
When researchers encounter or confront other ways of thinking
When they leave their labs, scientists meet people for whom the universe is not made up of equations. Paranormal enthusiasts talk of obscure forces and chains of causality riddled with contradictions. Others, on the contrary, see the results of their research used to demonstrate anything and everything...
Philosophy, humanities and pop culture: the unexpected alliance
There are countless magazines and publications that take a tour through pop culture to deal with themes usually considered serious. If we can't explain this success, we can happily discover what pedagogical use to make of these stories, films, comics, serials or songs shared by the greatest number.
Motivation: we've got it all wrong!
Bonuses or good grades... We reward actions that we want to encourage and foster. What if these rewards were the poison that gradually kills motivation? This is what researchers have been demonstrating regularly since the late 1940s, without managing to completely change our management practices. Daniel Fink, an American political writer and journalist, explains to us in a lively and erudite way "what really motivates us."