'This book is a must-read for parents and educators who want to refocus children's attention to one of the greatest secrets to long-term happiness - discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary' - Jessica Joelle Alexander, co-author of The Danish Way of Parenting 
Children of the last twenty years have grown up in an increasingly frenzied and demanding environment so that, on one hand, education has been rendered more complicated, and on the other, the essentials have been lost to view. In order to ensure their future success, parents often feel that they must fill their children's schedules with endless activities that cause leisure, spontaneous activity, and the experience of nature, beauty and silence, to fade out of their lives. 
This veritable race toward adulthood distances children more and more from the natural laws of childhood. A constant stream of loud and flashy stimuli disturbs the only true and sustainable learning that exists in them: that of calmly and quietly discovering the world for themselves and at their own pace, with a sense of wonder that goes beyond mere curiosity for the unknown or interest in novelty. 
In a world such as this, it can be a daunting task for a parent or educator of young children to discern how to best raise their children. Catherine L'Ecuyer offers clarity, drawing attention to the findings of many studies of the last few decades on the effects of screen use, overstimulation and mechanistic approaches to education on young children, and suggests time exploring the real world, more silence and the 'Wonder Approach' as remedies. 
Learning should be a wondrous journey guided by a deep reflection on what the natural laws of childhood require: respect for children's pace and rhythms, innocence, sense of mystery and thirst for beauty.

The Wonder Approach: Rescuing Children's Innate Desire to Learn

Politics & Social Sciences

L'Écuyer, Catherine

Social Sciences

Robinson

Children of the last twenty years have grown up in an increasingly frenzied and demanding environment, so that on one hand education has been rendered more complicated and on the other, the essentials have been lost from view. In order to ensure their future success, we feel that we must fill our children's schedules with endless activities that cause leisure, spontaneous activity, and the experience of nature, beauty and silence, to fade out of their lives. Childhood has often become a veritable race toward adulthood, which distances children more and more from the natural laws of childhood. A constant stream of loud and flashy stimuli disturbs the only true and sustainable learning that exists in them: that of calmly and quietly discovering the world for themselves and at their own pace, with a sense of wonder that goes beyond mere curiosity for the unknown or interest in novelty.According to the Wonder Approach, learning is a wondrous journey guided by a deep reflection on what the natural laws of childhood require: respect for children's innocence, their pace and rhythms, their sense of mystery, and their thirst for beauty."The Wonder Approach to Learning is a most informed and intelligent article on learning." Psychology TodayAbout the author: Catherine L'Ecuyer, LL.B., MBA, MRes, is Canadian, now living in Barcelona with four children. She holds a law degree from Laval University, has an MBA from IESE Business School, and an Official European Master of Research. In Canada, she worked in commercial litigation at Fasken Martineau and as Senior Council for the telecommunication company Fido; in Spain she has taught university classes and worked as a consultant.The Swiss journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience published her article "The Wonder Approach to Learning," which converted her thesis into a new hypothesis / theory of learning. In 2015, she received the Pajarita Award from the Spanish Association of Toy Manufacturers for "promoting a culture of play in the media," and was invited to speak to the Education Commission of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. She has served as a consultant to the Spanish government regarding the use of digital technology by minors and to the government of the state of Puebla in Mexico concerning preschool reform. The Wonder Approach, initially published in Spain (23 ed.), has been published in eight languages and is available in more than fifteen countries. She has also published Educar en la realidad (7 ed.), on the use of digital media in childhood and adolescence. A recent video interview she did as part of Aprendemos Juntos (BBVA-El Pa s) received over 10 million views and has won the Google YouTube Ads Leaderboard award for being the third most creative advertising videos on YouTube. A sought-after international speaker, she currently collaborates with the Mind-Brain Group of the University of Navarra and is a columnist for El Pa s, one of the most-read newspapers in Spain.

Parenting & Relationships

Reference

Catherine L'Ecuyer

"Un libro que nos presenta el pensamiento de Montessori de una manera coherente y clara. Una obra que bien podría haber escrito la propia Montessori, pero que no hizo."Prólogo de Inger EnkvistMaria Montessori es una pedagoga controvertida. Los naturalistas le reprocharon la rigidez y la artificialidad de su método, así como su rechazo a la imaginación productiva y a la fantasía; los progresistas, la individualidad y el carácter coercitivo de su método; los modernistas, su religiosidad; algunos le criticaron por adelantar los aprendizajes o de no respetar la libertad del niño, otros por lo contrario; los cristianos la tildaron de laicista, positivista, naturalista y teósofa, mientras que los teósofos la definieron como ‘católica’. Mientras Mussolini cerraba todas sus escuelas, le trataban de fascista. ¿Qué hay de cierto en todo ello? ¿Comparte los planteamientos de la pedagogía romántica de Rousseau? ¿Y los movimiento de la Educación Nueva? Quizás ha llegado el momento de dar respuesta a une serie de mitos que circulan con impunidad sobre una de las pedagogas y de las propuestas educativas más fascinantes y controvertidas de la historia de la educación.Si Montessori vuelve hoy a estar en primera línea de la actualidad educativa, no es por casualidad. Su propuesta, rica en matices, no puede ser más actual en un contexto educativo de dialéctica infértil entre la instrucción directa y el aprendizaje por descubrimiento, entre el conductismo y el laissez-faire, entre la importancia de la razón y de la dimensión sensorial y, entre el aprendizaje pasivo y activo. Montessori nos puede ayudar a encontrar caminos nuevos que se salgan de las falsas retóricas que encierran esas dialécticas; abre una tercera vía que no solo trae matices, sino también y sobre todo claridad.

Montessori ante el legado pedagógico de Rousseau (Spanish Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

¿Cómo lograr que un niño, y luego un adolescente, sea capaz de estar quieto observando con calma a su alrededor, capaz de esperar antes de tener, capaz de pensar, con motivación para aprender sin miedo al esfuerzo? Los niños crecen en un entorno cada vez más frenético y exigente que, por un lado, ha hecho la tarea de educar más compleja, y, por otro, los ha alejado de lo esencial. Para su éxito futuro vemos necesario programarlos para un sinfín de actividades que los están apartando del ocio de siempre, del juego libre, de la naturaleza, del silencio, de la belleza. Su vida se ha convertido en una verdadera carrera para saltar etapas, lo que les aleja cada vez más de su propia naturaleza. Muchos niños se están perdiendo lo mejor de la vida: descubrir el mundo, adentrarse en la realidad. Un ruido ensordecedor acalla sus preguntas, las estridentes pantallas saturan sus sentidos e interrumpan el aprendizaje lento de todo lo maravilloso que hay que descubrir por primera vez. Educar en el asombro es replantear el aprendizaje como un viaje que nace desde el interior de la persona, una aventura maravillosa facilitada por una consideración profunda de lo que reclama la naturaleza del niño, como el respeto por su inocencia, sus ritmos, su sentido del misterio y su sed de belleza.

Educar en el asombro

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Educar en la realidad

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