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"We are not animals!"

That was the core of a powerful new psychotherapy technique called systematic desensitization, in which people with phobias imagined gradually more and more anxiety-provoking images while staying relaxed through the use of methods of muscular relaxation.

Un tel intérêt porté à l’élève et à son cerveau, en termes d’attentes, de contraintes et de potentiel d’apprentissage, renoue avec l’esprit des pionniers des pédagogies nouvelles du XXe siècle tels Maria Montessori en Italie, Célestin Freinet en France et Ovide Decroly en Belgique. Il amène aussi à revisiter les contributions marquantes des grands

DISC was a life-saver for me when I was trying to explain to a five-year old why some people behaved in certain

One source of evidence is work by Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroscientist who has dissolved the brains of many creatures to determine how many neurons are present. She’s found a lot of interesting scaling laws. She has a paper discussing the human brain as a scaled-up primate brain.60 Across a wide variety of animals, mammals in particular, there

Compliments Improve Competence As a boy I saw it happen time after time. My mother loved all animals, but she especially loved cows. When she bought a cow she would name her, pet her, and treat her like a member of the family. I have seen her buy a three-gallon-a-day producer (average for the 1930s and ’40s) on many occasions and in a matter of