We live in a time when cognitive skills alone are less relevant than how people can manage their skills and knowledge in challenging contexts. In fact, we are no longer in the Age of Enlightenment when the target of making knowledge available to everyone was a great progressive aim, but in a stage of civilisation […]
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A research -carried out in 2016 and funded by the University of Edinburgh (see credit)- demonstrated a significant improvement in an attentional switching task just after one week of intensive learning for at least five hours per week…
One week is already beneficial Read More »
The mental health crisis Between 2010 and 2015 an unexpected wave of mental health issues stormed children, teenagers and young people as it was never seen before. In his recent book “The Anxious Generation”, released in March 2024, Jonathan Haidt analyses what happened in those years when teenagers began to say that they felt “sad,
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