Cognitive flexibility. The corstone of learning

International audienceCornerstone of learning, cognitive flexibility allows us to cope with a constantly changing environment. By adapting our knowledge and habits in order to respond to new situations, cognitive flexibility plays a fundamental role in learning.This book proposes a study of the fundamental notions of cognitive flexibility: its measurement and development, its links with metacognition and critical thinking, the role of context in its expression, as well as its involvement in solution discovery, transfer of knowledge and analogy. Convergent perspectives are also presented in order to draw a picture of cognitive flexibility and discuss the issues at stake.Thanks to the combined views of specialists in cognitive and developmental psychology, Cognitive Flexibility suggests new educational tracks based on the results of empirical work on the subject.Coordinated byEvelyne Clément is a full professor at CY Cergy Paris Université, France. She is deputy director of the Paragraphe laboratory. Her research focuses on the cognitive and conative processes involved in learning and problem solving. Her interests especially include the study of cognitive flexibility and the more prone conditions of its expression

Cognitive flexibility. The corstone of learning

International audienceCornerstone of learning, cognitive flexibility allows us to cope with a constantly changing environment. By adapting our knowledge and habits in order to respond to new situations, cognitive flexibility plays a fundamental role in learning.This book proposes a study of the fundamental notions of cognitive flexibility: its measurement and development, its links with metacognition and critical thinking, the role of context in its expression, as well as its involvement in solution discovery, transfer of knowledge and analogy. Convergent perspectives are also presented in order to draw a picture of cognitive flexibility and discuss the issues at stake.Thanks to the combined views of specialists in cognitive and developmental psychology, Cognitive Flexibility suggests new educational tracks based on the results of empirical work on the subject.Coordinated byEvelyne Clément is a full professor at CY Cergy Paris Université, France. She is deputy director of the Paragraphe laboratory. Her research focuses on the cognitive and conative processes involved in learning and problem solving. Her interests especially include the study of cognitive flexibility and the more prone conditions of its expression

Cognitive flexibility. The corstone of learning

International audienceCornerstone of learning, cognitive flexibility allows us to cope with a constantly changing environment. By adapting our knowledge and habits in order to respond to new situations, cognitive flexibility plays a fundamental role in learning.This book proposes a study of the fundamental notions of cognitive flexibility: its measurement and development, its links with metacognition and critical thinking, the role of context in its expression, as well as its involvement in solution discovery, transfer of knowledge and analogy. Convergent perspectives are also presented in order to draw a picture of cognitive flexibility and discuss the issues at stake.Thanks to the combined views of specialists in cognitive and developmental psychology, Cognitive Flexibility suggests new educational tracks based on the results of empirical work on the subject.Coordinated byEvelyne Clément is a full professor at CY Cergy Paris Université, France. She is deputy director of the Paragraphe laboratory. Her research focuses on the cognitive and conative processes involved in learning and problem solving. Her interests especially include the study of cognitive flexibility and the more prone conditions of its expression

Stripers, bailarinas exóticas, eróticas: identidad e inmigración en la construcción del Estado canadiense Stripers, erotic and exotic dancers: immigration and identity in the construction of the canadian nation-State

Este artículo presenta una discusión sobre la migración de mujeres Latinoamericanas para trabajar en la industria del sexo en Canadá, como bailarinas exóticas, a través de visas temporales de trabajo. El objetivo es demostrar que esa migración se encuentra determinada en un contexto de relaciones desiguales de poder enmarcadas por las políticas migratorias canadienses, relaciones de explotación económica de Norte América hacia Latinoamérica, construcciones raciales y racistas, y relaciones patriarcales de género, en el que el trabajo sexual es una de las pocas opciones laborales que tienen las mujeres.<br>This article discusses how the migration of Latin American women to work in the sex trade, specifically as exotic dancers, as temporary workers is framed within a specific context of Canadian immigration policies, uneven economic relationships between North America and Latin America, racial and racist constructions and sexist gender relations where sex work is one of the few working possibilities that women have