Il Corriere della Sera on January 25 carried an article Alfonso Berardinelli, literary critic and essayist. In a time when we are seriously questioning as a school on what are the essential subject content and how to assess their learning by the pupil, Berardinelli invites us to take a step back and investigate the mechanisms that govern the human mind to as teachers are able to match the emotional linked to different modes of learning with the physiological linked to different cognitive styles . So we can better help our children to acquire a method of personal study a view of learning content that we consider essential, but we will help them also, and above all, to build time in the "toolbox " will become a faithful companion on all occasions of knowledge throughout their lives.
Alfonso Berardinelli, At school there is no escape from mediocrity , Corriere della Sera, January 25, 2011, read the whole article
"In the West the past two centuries, we are very busy society, its improvement, improvement or radical renewal. Instead, we have recently employed the use, care and destiny of the human mind, how to treat it and what to do. Perhaps, before the subjects of study, teachers should deal with powers of mind and how to develop them optimally. The art of teaching is one of the most difficult. So a company aware decently should first focus on the training and selection of intellectuals for teaching: the more socially valuable, and therefore also the most dangerous.
Psyche or brain? The twentieth century, the century of depth psychology, is over. Two thousand seems to dominate in the study of brain and cognitive abilities. Some might say that the teacher should be noted that the psyche student is brought to the sweetness permissive safeguard the welfare of the subject, whereas if it enhances mental efficiency will become severely selective anaffective or worse. In the school as it is no solution to these problems. Or rather, the solution can be found only individual teachers (who apply themselves if they learn something while they teach) and individual students (who are saved from the misadventures school only if they are also self-taught ...)" read the whole article
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