Recognition of diplomas: can they really be "equivalent"?
Context becomes an important element to take into account when recognizing skills from one country and system to another.
Valuing a course means recognizing the teacher
A good course is a good teacher. It's a professional who knows the requirements of a school program or certification course, the pedagogical techniques to be favored and who knows how to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and flawless communication. There are plenty of good teachers out there, but the current lack of international recognition of the profession is a cause for concern. What does the OECD's TALIS survey tell us?
The place of the collective in motivation to learn. Important, but informal [Thesis].
We do better with others than alone. Research supported by 7 studies conducted with over 700 students.
Language stays or the benefits of immersion
The point of an immersion is to foster the learner's linguistic context as much as possible, but there is no need to be sitting in classrooms full time...
Bullshit - How to fight it?
Bullshit.. There's no shortage of translations to evoke the "bullshit" analyzed by sociologist Harry Frankfurt and more recently by Sebastian Dieguez. Indifferent to the categories of "true" and "false", and more sensitive to emotion, sincerity and commitment, this form of communication represents a problem. But how can we fight back when rebuttal barely scratches the surface of this "rubbish"?