El profesor emocionalmente competente

In recent months there has been pressure from the community that question the ways in which homework aggravates social inequalities due to the difference between students who rely on family support that is not always available. In some cases, an overabundance of homework leaves children without a childhood. This reflection on the usefulness of homework serves as an invitation to rethink what it means today to educate, both inside and outside the classroom.

The Pequeno Rey can't fall asleep, so he gathers a little orchestra of musical insects for intertainment until he gets tired.

"The Harvard Educational Review is a journal of opinion and research in the field of education. Articles are selected, edited, and published by an editorial board of graduate students at Harvard University. The editorial policy does not reflect an official position of the Faculty of Education or any other Harvard faculty."-- Volume 81, Number 2, Summer 2011

"Susanna" es la última novela de Gertrud Kolmar. Fue escrita en Berlín durante el invierno de 1939, siempre por las noches, únicos momentos de tranquilidad en el apartamento colectivo para judíos que se le asigna a la escritora como residencia obligada. "Susanna" es el recuerdo del inquietante encuentro entre dos mujeres. Una institutriz judía, que está esperando el permiso para poder salir de Alemania y huir de la amenaza del nazismo, rememora los días que pasó junto a su alumna, una bellísima joven mentalmente perturbada. La narradora, una mujer adulta, razonable, aparentemente...