Of the 280 young people, many had never been abroad before. Some had never even crossed the borders of New Aquitaine before… Here they are, however, rather at ease, dazzled and flattered by the almost princely welcome reserved for them, for a week, in the Renaissance setting of the Villa Médicis, where the greatest artists […]
“That’s the emotion box”explains Emmy, pointing to a box containing piles of objects. “The red bottle is anger. Black is fear. The yellow the joy, the blue the sadness and the green the serenity., continues Maïwenn, at his side. Serenity ? “Well yes, it’s when you’re quiet”she replies surprised that we are wondering. → READ. […]
It is a common offensive: Tuesday, January 25, all learned societies and mathematical associations have stepped up to the plate in a press release denouncing “the worsening of inequalities between girls and boys in mathematics in high school”. In question, according to them, the reform of the high school, which entered into force in 2019. […]
That morning, due to the health crisis, there were only 7 in the class, compared to 18 in normal times. “We are not going to count the absentees because there are too many”, warns in a voice as soft as dynamic Gaëlle Hallier-Fourage, teacher of small and medium sections at the Grand Carcouët school, in […]
What is patience, presented by tradition as a virtue? Philippe Meirieu: It is the ability to live the expectation in a positive way and not as an insurmountable frustration, the ability to inhabit this expectation to make it fruitful. This is what makes it possible to transform an impulse – which demands immediate satisfaction, like […]
Last April, astronaut Thomas Pesquet flew to the International Space Station (ISS) with a strange creature: a Physarum polycephalum, better known as the blob, on which he would measure the effects of weightlessness. In October, the same experiment was conducted on Earth by nearly 300,000 students to compare the behavior of this single-celled organism. endowed […]
The cross : What is an emotion? Philippe Brun: This is an extremely difficult question, even though we have studied emotions for a long time. Today it is believed to be a dynamic and brief phenomenon triggered by a specific event that elicits an adaptive response, such as warning or reassurance. In emotion, there are […]
The cross : How does a child become bilingual? Ranka Bijeljac-Babic: A child becomes bilingual because he is imbued with two languages in his daily environment. There are several scenarios: parents can speak the same language or each speak a different language. The child can learn one language at home and another outside. However, not […]
“I want him to understand his mother’s roots” Jean-Baptiste, 39 years old “I knew my future partner in high school. Of Spanish origin, Cécilia arrived in France at the age of 9. When our first child was born, everything happened naturally. It made sense that we were going to speak to him in both languages. […]