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Teaching? Piece of cake!

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This article proposes a pedagogical method, which educates children to freedom. It can be integrated with the previously proposed dialogic method . It bases the concept that children create their knowledge through play (Duckworth, 2006; Edwards et al., 1998) . Therefore, are proposed educational practices to promote children’s play. HUNDRED-PLAYS CHILDREN As Montessori (1949) and Malaguzzi (1998) , this method argues that children possess personality: a “hundred languages”, interests, and ways to express themselves. Their personality grows in the interaction with the community, space, and materials. If exposed to sufficient stimuli, children have the power to teach themselves: organize skills and knowledge with fluidity and efficacy (Edwards et al., 1998; Gandini, 2003; Heiland, 1993; Montessori, 1949; Westbrook, 1993) . “Play” is this spontaneous and enjoyed interaction that emerges from internal pretence and external features (Smith, 2010; Smith & Roopnarine, 2019; Sutton-Smith...

Futuristic hospitals

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Towards health, through education, the hospital of the future will be born. Reflecting on the meaning of health , we rediscovered the importance of the role of the individual and professional education as the main means to help him or her. This change of perspective, if applied in hospitals, would completely change the structure of the hospital, because from a medical approach, one would move towards an educational, dialogical approach ; one would move towards a focus on well-being and the second on healing. If a hospital were to be built in which all health professionals collaborate so that a patient does not heal, but makes the choices to feel good, the gains would be infinite. In the first place, people's satisfaction would be achieved and in the second place, respect for everyone's right to freedom of choice, because everything is oriented towards these two points. Then there would be great economic savings. Taking the European Union as an example, one can analyse the heal...