Diflexive didactic: The challenge of nesting and situating learning in the student’s experience

In a context of rapid change and constant transformation, the processes of learning, unlearning, and relearning present ongoing challenges in professional training across all disciplines. In this regard, diflexive didactics offers a unique teaching approach that integrates exploring (curiosity to question), proposing (contributing to improvement), and applying (practicing to learn). This method fosters psychologically safe spaces where students can critically examine their prior knowledge. Guided by the professor’s deliberate agenda and aligned with students’ interests, these spaces serve as hubs for collective learning and the creation of new distinctions. The implementation of this approach in graduate courses on security and control topics during 2023 and the first semester of 2024 highlights opportunities, challenges, and outcomes, offering actionable insights for both students and educators.