Interview de Jean-François Vézina « Tout se joue avant 100 ans » | Daily Books Jean-François Vézina Jean-François Vézina, psychologue et auteur de « Les hasards nécessaires », « Danser avec le chaos », « L’aventure amoureuse » et « Se réaliser dans un monde d’images », de passage en Suisse pour présenter son dernier livre « Tout se joue avant 100 ans » a répondu aux questions de Daily Books : Tu as présenté ton livre au Québec, en France, en Suisse. Tu vois des différences ? Oui, c’est mystérieux. Est-ce que tu es surpris par l’accueil en Suisse ? Je suis très agréablement surpris. Mais là, on a l’impression qu’il y a un décollage avec « Tout se joue avant 100 ans » ? Tout à fait. Tu dis que tu écris de la psycho-philo-poésie, est-ce un nouveau genre littéraire ou une manière d’être ? C’est une très bonne question. Est-ce que tu retrouves cette façon de regarder le monde dans notre monde d’aujourd’hui ? Ma plus grande psycho-philo-poète, c’est ma fille. « Tout se joue avant 100 ans », est-ce que c’est un livre ou est-ce que c’est un jeu ? C’est les deux.
Online Classes Project-Based Homeschooling Master Class “The class can help move you from reading, thinking, and talking about PBH to actively doing it.” This class lasts six weeks and costs $125. We are currently enrolling the Fall session and it will run from September 8-October 17. In this six-week class, we drill down deeper into the core ideas of mentoring and self-directed learning and help you put those ideas into immediate practice. Class description: Each week you’ll receive new material I’ve written specifically for this course along with simple assignments. I will be giving reading assignments, so please purchase a copy of the book before class begins or borrow a copy from your library or a friend. This class is not only for homeschoolers — it is for any parent or teacher who is interested in supporting children’s interests and helping them become active thinkers, learners, makers, and doers. This is a community-based class. The six focus areas of this class will be: • Documenting & journaling
Is Psychology Missing the Play Revolution? What do gardening, spoken word, video games, engineering, running, making beer, talking to strangers, going to the theatre, fixing bikes, dealing with trauma, and drumming have in common? All were topics at TEDxNavesink-PLAY, a day-long event at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey on May 10 2014. Yes, play. In all, there were two dozen presentations organized to highlight four features of play: its possibility, pleasure, progress and paradox. For me—a developmental psychologist concerned with the power of play throughout the life span—this was a conference-goer’s dream. Peter Gray spoke on the decline of play and the rise of mental disorders. These and other presentations illustrated one of the themes of my own talk, “Play Helps Us Grow at Any Age.” When babies and their caregivers play, they 1. go beyond themselves by doing things without knowing how (for example, they carry on conversations even though the baby don’t yet know how to speak) Open yourself up to play.
Home School San Diego - UNITED SCHOLAR ACADEMY HOMESCHOOL COOPERATIVE Confravision | mapping the future through public discourse Delight Directed 7th Grade: End of Year Review It is with great sadness, and equal joy, that I have to announce that we are leaving Korea. I thought we had another year of exploring to do. However, Jay was selected for job at a schoolhouse in Oklahoma. So our time is cut short here, but we are thankful to be heading back close to family and friends again. As I sort through our stuff, which has grown since we arrived, I started organizing our notebooks and books. You may remember that I decided to create a sort-of transcript for Raven’s 7th grade year. I posted a mid-year update where I shared how our plans had changed, and what was working for her. And so now, before our life gets hectic, I want to share a year-end review. What do unschoolers learn in a year? A lot of people are curious as to what unschoolers do all year and what breadth and depth of knowledge they cover. Of course I’m going to give you a general answer – I can’t speak for any unschooling family or situation except our own. Language Arts Animal Science Mathematics
Jillian Pransky Mindplay to Expand Love in Your Life Friendship is as important to our health as getting enough sleep, eating well, and exercising. In this talk Jillian Pransky tells us that this is old news. 2,500-years ago Metta meditation was presented as a path to befriend our selves and develop a greater capacity to connect deeply with others – in the playground of our mind. Combining Metta with yoga practices will melt tension, release stagnant energy, and train the mind to be more spacious and present. In this open relaxed state, we can cultivate a transformative quality of friendliness towards ourselves. About Jillian Pransky I’ve lived that magic of when you truly are doing exactly as you should be…and doing it with your whole heart. Jillian Pransky is an international presenter, National Director of Restorative Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Works and co-founder of the Bright Spirit Yoga Teacher Training.
Delight Directed 7th Grade This year is a big one for Raven. She turns 13 here in just a couple of months, which means she “officially” gets to join the world of social media. The two she has been looking forward to the most are Facebook and DeviantArt. She also enters into Jr. We’ve been talking a lot lately about her goals and what she wants to get out of these next few years. And she does want to go to college – for certain things. This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. How unschoolers make plans So, I thought I would share how we made up a plan for Raven for her 7th grade year – using her own goals and interests. First let me make a couple of things clear. Yes – we are still unschooling. For planning and record-keeping, we are working with these main tools: Keeping track of topics using a unit study form Basically, we are going to use the “sticky note method” that Lee recommended to me. A unit study will include two things: input and output. Pretty ingenious – no? English/Literature – “Writing and Research”
Children are suffering a severe deficit of play – Peter Gray When I was a child in the 1950s, my friends and I had two educations. We had school (which was not the big deal it is today), and we also had what I call a hunter-gather education. We played in mixed-age neighbourhood groups almost every day after school, often until dark. For more than 50 years now, we in the United States have been gradually reducing children’s opportunities to play, and the same is true in many other countries. Over the same decades that children’s play has been declining, childhood mental disorders have been increasing. The decline in opportunity to play has also been accompanied by a decline in empathy and a rise in narcissism, both of which have been assessed since the late 1970s with standard questionnaires given to normative samples of college students. In my book, Free to Learn (2013), I document these changes, and argue that the rise in mental disorders among children is largely the result of the decline in children’s freedom. Learning versus playing.
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