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Distance learning prohibits any fruitful dialogue between the professor and his students

2020-11-21T23:40:21.723Z


TRIBUNE - Teaching through screens dramatically impoverishes this art and undermines the in-depth acquisition of knowledge by students, worries the professor of antiquity, who recounts with rare freedom the effects concrete aspects of distance education at the University.


Stéphane Ratti, associate professor of classical literature, is a professor at the University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

He renewed our vision of relations between Christians and followers of traditional religions in the 4th and 5th centuries.

He has published many notable works, such as "

Le Premier Saint Augustin

" (Les Belles Lettres, 2016) and "

Les Aveux de la chair sans masque

" (Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2018), analysis of the questionable interpretation, by Michel Foucault, from texts of the Fathers of the Church on sexuality.

This essay was crowned with the 2020 Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

Since the beginning of November the entire French University has been in distance education, that is to say, it no longer sees, with rare exceptions, a single student.

The silence on the subject could make one believe that all is well.

Here are some thoughts on situations that might suggest otherwise.

University hierarchies have left

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Source: lefigaro

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