Educating to wonder
Friday 24 January from 13:00 to 14:30
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Bruno Humbeeck
Psychopédagogue, Docteur en Sciences de l’Éducation, Chargé d’enseignement à l’université de Mons et Responsable du Centre de Ressource Éducative pour l’Action Sociale (CREAS), il travaille sur des projets de recherche portant sur relations école-famille et société au sein du Centre de Recherche en Inclusion Sociale.
« How to cultivate a child’s sense of wonder and restore it in adults!»
Bruno Humbeeck
‘It’s through a sense of wonder that adults come to terms with their own childhood’.
More than ever, people need to discover imaginary sanctuaries that protect them from the darkness and brutality of the world.
This ability to perceive the miraculous is part of the heritage with which every child is born, but it is then abused by excessive realism, a need for invasive control or abusive disenchantment.
In this context, there is an urgent need to educate children and young people to wonder.
The wonder lies not in what we are given to see, but in the quality of the way we look at what surrounds us.
In this conference, Bruno Humbeeck will outline the basic principles of a pedagogy of wonder: take your time, don’t force yourself, go at your own pace and choose the path that suits you best.
In this way we can rediscover a sense of wonder that is experienced in childhood, cultivated in adolescence and still present in some ageing adults.