COVID vs. REAL FLU — CADIX C’EST FINI

CULTURE IN TEACHING

WHAT’S MORE, FOREIGN LANGUAGES,

HAS LITTLE TO DO, AND YET A LOT TO DO,

WITH ERIN MEYER’S “CULTURE”

Since 2010 I have only taught professional adults within their professional orientation, and it was directly articulated in their work and careers. It is in private circumstances and institutions that I have found the highest level of available means for the students, and the desire to innovate in the foreign language I was teaching, an innovation that had to do with the way the particular subject was taught (objectives, competencies, topics, and subjects). But it also had to do with the general procedure targeted in the simple act of teaching which was evolving away from teaching = transmitting knowledge from the teacher to the students to get everyday day or year closer to self-learning = the students have to find the knowledge they need, extract it from where it is and assimilate it into their own knowledge, and this with all the means they have at their disposal, absolutely all, with no limitations. And what’s more, they wanted to have an important say in the topics and subjects they wanted to study.

This evolution is of course all the more visible and important within professional circumstances. All professionals today are expected to learn every day something new and useful by themselves with the tools they have or the companies they work for, provide them with.

COVID-19 revealed at all levels of education and life, that every individual had to have the initiative and control of their own actions and lives and that this initiative and control was not supposed to increase their individualistic and self-centered purely enjoyable freedom but had to make every individual think of the consequences of their own actions on all people around them. All that has been said, written, published, taught, and set on many other communicational means like radio, cinema, TV, Internet, about the absolute freedom of each individual who is the only one who is supposed to take and make all…