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February 05, 2023

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Tales for “SAY, READ, WRITE”. Tales for counting “SOLVING MATHEMATICS PROBLEMS”. But also, stories to overcome your fears of learning!

Today, and for this we give thanks to French legislation, all children between the ages of 6 and 16 go to school. Dunces, happy or unhappy, they are forced to wear out their trouser bottoms on the beautiful chrome chairs that the municipalities make available to them. Things have therefore not really changed and the famous 10 to 15% of young people who leave the school system each year, without having acquired the rudimentary bases of knowledge, have not suddenly arisen. They have always been there, with the difference that in the past the school sent them back to their homes unceremoniously!

Today, by law, we keep them and what do we do with them? Finally, this is the subject of our article: “Learning differently”.

Well, many teachers and especially specialized teachers exhaust, alongside them, treasures of imagination. They all try reading methods and mathematics in vogue and still come up against the plague of school failure.

One day, tired of this vile and insidious feeling that some call “professional wear and tear”, I asked the National Education to go on training leave to refresh my knowledge in educational psychology.

It was during my research on the intelligent child who did not learn that I discovered “cultural mediation”

By telling children, told modestly in difficulty, tales, myths, stories with a “hot theme”, we allow them to take into account the concerns and anxieties that agitate them and hinder them in their learning.

It’s simply a story that talks about death, sibling rivalry, sex, good and bad mothers, and other such essential themes.A very simple story that we find in our traditional tales by Perrault, Grimm, or Andersen.

With Snow White, the child finds his preoccupations around the death of the mother. With Monsieur Seguin’s goat, he sublimates his desires and his fears of freedom. With the Rich and the poor, he tackles the theme of unemployment which parasitizes so many of our little pupils and thus with all the stories… Tales for the youngest, novels and mythology for the older ones.

When the child or the young person leaves this personal which parasitizes it to go towards the universal which opens the doors of knowledge to him and well it is very simple, he learns.

He first learns to listen, then to be interested, then to say, then to argue, then to write, then to copy, then to read, and finally to produce syntactically correct texts without spelling errors. This concerns the “Say, Read and Write”.

Now let’s talk about math. Who is the adult who has not, hidden in the meanders of his memory, a problem that he did not manage to solve because the word “problem” gave him cold sweats!

What is the adult, today installed in his life, who has not had one day to face the anxieties of the mythical division? Admittedly, some students had flawless runs, but the others?

Well, for the others, for these children with curious and lost looks, for those entrusted to me every day, in the “network of assistance for pupils in difficulty” where I work, we have invented mathematics which has make their eyes shine. With “Jorinde and Joringel” by the Brothers Grimm, we tackled subtraction. With the pretty fairies of the “Sleeping Beauty” we counted the gold plates and the silver goblets intended for the guests. With Snow White, a little girl named Orlane found out at what age the Queen became a mother….

Without ever letting the students tell us too personal confidences that do not concern us. Without ever distorting the pedagogical framework, we overcame, together with the children, the fear of “problems”.

So, the professional that I am, has seen the children, count, reason, master the operating techniques… But if we could tell you everything in a few hundred characters, why would we have taken the trouble to tell our story in “On Failure school to the joy of learning”!!! Good reading.

Chronic: Madeleine KHALIFA

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