Even if it is now scientifically proven that the human brain, when listening to music, activates (among other things) the brain areas that process language, does this mean that music is a language in its own? It is true that…
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In 2000, scientists Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer used the concept of the anthropocene to describe the epoch we have reached, denoting the ever increasing effect of humans on earth. There is no part of the world that is unaffected…
The world is changing. The human brain is challenged, for the first time since the birth of humanity, by technological tools that are re-programmed thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms. The resulting changes are occurring at a speed that is…
According to Tomlinson, today’s classroom is a ‘jigsaw of learners’ with different backgrounds, experiences, learning styles and, consequently, needs (2015). Every child in the classroom is unique and has reached a distinctive stage of development and of achievement. At Ecole…
What is it? Used by nearly 20,000 schools around the world, the sensory material developed by Maria Montessori allows the child to distinguish, specify and generalize, from the concrete to the concept and from the concept to the abstract. It…
Since 2014, coding was introduced in British schools for pupils from the age of five. Since that same year, Eden School has included the subject in the school curriculum. Coding or programming involves using languages to ask a computer to…
At Eden School, the Visual Arts are taught in the same way as Music or Maths. When teaching Visual Arts we must put in place a learning system that addresses the discipline as such as well as the interdisciplinary and…
Many scholars have stressed the impact of assessment on student progress and learning. It is a central part of the latter as it transparently attests that teaching standards and learning objectives are being met (Jarvis, 2007). As a deliberate school…
In education, pioneering ideas are as much about intuition as they are about pragmatism. They are the reflection of a necessity. Their authors are passionate teachers, often dissatisfied with their practice. At first, they may question these ideas when confronted…
«All children learn their mother tongue naturally through listening and imitating.» Shin’ichi Suzuki This simple observation inspires and guides the great Japanese teacher Shin’ichi Suzuki- in mid-XXth century- to develop a method to learn to play an instrument based on…
Helping children to grow and blossom, give them the desire to understand, to construct who they are, to visit themselves internally, to be connected with others and the world… the desire to thrive … then learn to become serious, without taking…
How much do you remember of what you learned at school? What happened with all those facts, dates, information and formulas you had to memorise for the test? And what can we say about the hours we spent doing homework?…
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” Abraham…
Gone are the days where students were seated in rows and listened, for what seemed like hours, to the teacher on a particular topic. Content was to be memorized and learned in a specific way. Teachers taught and students were…
A press review is a journalistic exercise centred mainly on radio journalism: news that can be regularly heard on the radio, both nationally and internationally. It brings to light the latest world news or a specific event that is commented…