by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 27, 2017 | Uncategorised
Once we have been labelled as ‘cool’ or ‘a nerd’ or even a ‘psycho’ or ‘mental’, does it define us forever after regardless of the changes we make later? The belief that personality is fixed Have you ever heard a joke...
by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 23, 2017 | Uncategorised
Today, I told one of my students that ‘feedback is information’ and ‘that there is no such thing as failure’. They responded by saying: ‘yes, there is and it’s not a pleasant experience’. Is failure having an impact on our...
by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 22, 2017 | Uncategorised
Watching my two children speak French and English fluently at the age of 9 and 6, I marvel at the fact that we didn’t really have to teach them anything to learn to speak both languages, it just happened because they were exposed to both at home. Children are...
by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 19, 2017 | mental health in education, Uncategorised
I received a question to one of my previous blogs on the 4 mental health states based on Dr Kutcher’s pyramid model and although I replied briefly, I promised that I would use the topic as a blog post. So, here it is… The language we use matters In our...
by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 15, 2017 | mental health in education, Uncategorised
Mental health… problems… issues… disorders… ill health? What does it all mean? Is this creating a semantic confusion around the topic of mental health? Time for change? As a linguist, I love words and definitions. This is particularly true about English words I had to...
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