In North American elementary and high-schools, Black and Indigenous students are disciplined through suspension and expulsion more often than their peers. These same groups of students are also more often exposed to adversity and trauma such as community violence, racism and inequity. As a social worker for many years in the Greater Toronto Area and Vancouver, in children’s mental health, child […] … learn more→

About 9 million Australians, 35% of the population, live in neighbourhoods classified as childcare deserts – populated areas where there are more than three children per childcare place. In the first research of its kind in Australia, the Mitchell Institute has examined access to childcare in more than 50,000 neighbourhoods across the country. We found about 1.1 million Australians […] … learn more→

The term audit trail is shorthand. i use it to describe “evidential” material that you provide for a reader. I am a bit suspicious of the overuse of the word evidence, and I prefer “audit” because it describes what actually happens. “Audit” signals the work that your additional material has to do. Because readers want […] … learn more→

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are integrated into any area of ​​society. They should also be part of the educational field. They are presented as instruments capable of transforming the conception of the classroom as a unique training space, and the blackboard and the textbook as teaching resources par excellence. Digital competence is one of the key […] … learn more→

Boys fish with their mother and grandmother. A young woman trains as a mixed martial artist. Relay riders race horses around a track, leaping from horse to horse. A twelve-year-old navigates the Oka Crisis. A mother joins an underground freedom movement in order to get her daughter back. A young girl learns she can change the story. Each sentence above links to a film made by […] … learn more→

The practice of philosophy with children has been developing all over the world for more than 50 years. The stakes are multiple and go far beyond the need to democratize the teaching of philosophy upstream of the Terminale class. It is a question of developing critical thinking from an early age, of cultivating complex thinking and the […] … learn more→

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is about to get a lot bigger. Defence Minister Peter Dutton has announced plans to expand the ADF by 18,000 members by 2040. This nearly 30% increase, the largest since the Vietnam War, will require not only a renewed focus on recruitment, but also on retaining current sailors, soldiers and aviators. Families […] … learn more→

Society has undergone an important transformation process over the last few decades. A model of industrial society (which dates back to the 18th century) has been left behind and has given way to a model of information society , made possible by the technological advances that have occurred in the last 20 or 30 years. Currently, a knowledge society model […] … learn more→

Access to films in the original language has been widely democratized, as has access to subtitles in different languages. If their objective is to make it possible to understand the dialogues of a film whose language is not known, they are more and more envisaged under an educational angle. Clearly, watching a film in a foreign language […] … learn more→

When asked to estimate their own intelligence, most people will say they are above average, even though this is a statistical improbability. This is a normal, healthy cognitive bias and extends to any socially desirable trait such as honesty, driving ability and so on. This pattern is so common that it’s known as “the above-average effect”. In […] … learn more→