Les langues d'enseignement, un enjeu politique - Revue internationale d'éducation Sèvres 70 - Ebook


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Pourquoi l’enseignement en basque progresse-t-il au Pays basque espagnol ? Parle-t-on encore malais à Singapour ? Qui étudie en français aujourd’hui en Algérie ? L’estonien est-il menacé en Estonie ? Pourquoi la France n’a-t-elle pas ratifié la Charte des langues régionales ou minoritaires ? Et en Inde, pourquoi des parents choisissent-ils de scolariser leurs enfants en anglais ? Ces interrogations, parmi d’autres, émergent de la lecture du numéro 70 de la Revue internationale d’éducation de Sèvres consacré au choix des langues d’enseignement. Elles montrent qu’à l’évidence, ce choix est une question éminemment politique, qui dépasse largement le cadre des politiques éducatives. Les dix études qui composent ce dossier portent sur des contextes aussi différents que l’Algérie, le Burkina Faso, les Comores, l’Es- tonie, la France, l’Inde, le Paraguay, le Pays basque espagnol, Singapour, et la politique du Conseil de l’Europe. Elles font apparaître le constat suivant : aujourd’hui, le choix de la langue d’instruction n’est plus seulement le fait des pouvoirs publics ou des politiques officielles. Il subit désormais l’influence de facteurs et d’acteurs multiples, qui manifestent plus ou moins, selon les contextes, leur adhésion à une politique commune ou au contraire cherchent à la contourner. Des stratégies de différenciation sociale sont mises en place par des groupes aux intérêts divers, pour répondre aux enjeux du monde contemporain : employabilité et circulation professionnelle, obligation de résultats, privatisation et diversification de l’offre de formation, ou encore affirmation identitaire et reconnaissance de langues minoritaires dans la scolarisation. Partout l’arrivée en force d’acteurs nouveaux dans les débats, qu’il s’agisse des pouvoirs politiques régionaux, des parents, mais aussi des organisations internationales, change la donne, y compris au niveau des systèmes éducatifs.




Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought


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This work covers not only philosophy, but also all the other major disciplines, including literary theory, sociology, linguistics, political thought, theology, and more. The 240 analytical entries examine individuals such as Bergson, Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Kristeva, and Derrida; specific disciplines such as the arts, anthropology, historiography, psychology, and sociology; key beliefs and methodologies such as Catholicism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, and phenomenology; themes and concepts such as freedom, language, media, and sexuality; and istorical, political, social, and intellectual context. --From publisher's decription.







Satanism: A Social History


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A 17th-century French haberdasher invented the Black Mass. An 18th-century English Cabinet Minister administered the Eucharist to a baboon. High-ranking Catholic authorities in the 19th century believed that Satan appeared in Masonic lodges in the shape of a crocodile and played the piano there. A well-known scientist from the 20th century established a cult of the Antichrist and exploded in a laboratory experiment. Three Italian girls in 2000 sacrificed a nun to the Devil. A Black Metal band honored Satan in Krakow, Poland, in 2004 by exhibiting on stage 120 decapitated sheep heads. Some of these stories, as absurd as they might sound, were real. Others, which might appear to be equally well reported, are false. But even false stories have generated real societal reactions. For the first time, Massimo Introvigne proposes a general social history of Satanism and anti-Satanism, from the French Court of Louis XIV to the Satanic scares of the late 20th century, satanic themes in Black Metal music, the Church of Satan, and beyond.




Teacher Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship


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This book examines how educators internationally can better understand the role of education as a public good designed to nurture peace, tolerance, sustainable livelihoods and human fulfilment. Bringing together empirical and theoretical perspectives, this insightful text develops new understandings of education for sustainable development and global citizenship (ESD/GC) and illustrates how these might impact on educational research, policy and practice. The text recognizes the ESD/GC as pivotal to the universal ambitions of UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goals, and focuses on the role of teachers and teacher educators in delivering the appropriate educational response to promote equity and sustainability. Chapters explore factors including curriculum design, values and assessment in teacher education, and consider how each and every learner can be guaranteed an understanding of their role in promoting a just and sustainable global society. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, school leaders, practitioners, policy makers and students in the fields of education, teacher education and sustainability.




Overview of Information Literacy Resources Worldwide


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"A bibliography of print and online materials available in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Shona, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, and Vietnamese concerning information literacy."--Résumé de la notice dérivée.




Issues in Teaching and Learning of Education for Sustainability


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In a fast-changing, globalising world, the teaching and implementation of a curriculum for Education for Sustainability (EfS) has been a challenge for many teachers. Issues in Teaching and Learning of Education for Sustainability highlights the issues and challenges educators and academics face in implementing EfS and gives examples of what an EfS curriculum may look like and how some institutions translate the theory into practice. Organised into three parts, the volume looks at: the who (EfS for whom), the what (EfS curriculum) and the how (translating from theory to practice). The concluding chapter provides ideas and directions on where the world can proceed regarding sustainability education and how it can help in the teaching and learning of sustainability. Considering social issues such as poverty, education, health, culture and the use of natural resources, this book proposes a different path towards Education for Sustainability. Providing concrete data on the realisation of sustainable development, Issues in Teaching and Learning of Education for Sustainability will be of interest to geographers, geography educators and professionals concerned with Education for Sustainability.




The Seduction of the Mediterranean


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Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity, the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.




France and the South Pacific since 1940


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For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear-testing. This book looks at the realities of the French territories in Oceania, and the former Franco-British condominium of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), as well as changing French policy in the region. This study is based on published sources as well as archival material and interviews, and is a sequel to the highly praised The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940.




The Romanian Extreme Right


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This fascinating study of the intellectual origins and ideological and political evolution of the extreme right of interwar Romania offers a sensitive explanation of the part played by the Iron Guard in the history of Romanianism-anti-Semitism with university-based ideologies in the late 1920s and the 1930s. The work is largely based on analyses of printed literary and political tracts as well as on the nature of propaganda and the evolution of the doctrines of the Guardist movement.