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Educational Consultant & Author of The Wonder Approach

Catherine L’Ecuyer, a Canadian lawyer with an MBA,currently works as researcher, writer and speaker on The Wonder Approach, a new learning theory that she recently published in the prestigious academic journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Her book, The Wonder Approach, has been published in Italy, Corea and Spain (2012), where it is considered as a bestseller (10th edition)

“In education, more is not necessarily better”

[expand title=”In detail”] For the last 20 years, our children have lived in an environment that is more and more frenetic, competitive and demanding. During these years parents have met with a new challenge in education. They have come to believe that “more and earlier is better”. As a result, children are encouraged to play with educational toys, are pressured to excel in one activity after another and are exposed to hours of fast paced screen viewing. Do children need so much input? It is time to unveil a series of educational myths. Updates in neuroscience tell us that more and earlier is not the better. On the contrary, constant noise and stimulus consume our children’s attention, and interrupt their natural learning process, making it increasingly difficult for them to observe, to question and to wonder[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]According to Aristotle, all men by nature desire to learn, or “wonder”. The wonder approach consists in creating a favorable environment, so that the natural desire to learn can flourish in our children and later teenagers. The wonder approach is about respecting our children’s own pace, their need for silence, nature and mystery, giving them opportunities for beauty and giving them back the love of learning they were born with.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Catherine has a unique talent of understanding, energising and motivating her audience through a blend of storytelling, humour and knowledge. Her warmth and empathy connects her to audiences and her understanding and experience of children’s education is unique. [/expand]

Topics

Wonder and Beauty in Education

Publications

2014
The Wonder Approach to Learning (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)

2012
Educar en el Asombro (10th ed.)

2010
Como Conseguir una Empleada del Hogar Comprometida sin Morir en el Intento

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