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"Behind good intentions, a moral and civic education on the cheap"

6/28/2023, 6:28:30 PM

Highlights: Joachim Le Floch-Imad is director of the Res Publica Foundation. He is concerned about the overhaul of moral and civic education announced by Pap Ndiaye. This discipline could, according to him, be reduced to an "above-ground catechism" And he pleads for an authentic refoundation. The republican school being, in essence, a place where the child accepts a preliminary phase of heteronomy. The need for a more "playful" study of the functioning of institutions and a revision of programs "hand in hand with young people"


Joachim Le Floch-Imad, director of the Res Publica Foundation, is concerned about the overhaul of moral and civic education announced by Pap Ndiaye. This discipline could, according to him, be reduced to an "above-ground catechism". And he pleads for an authentic refoundation...

Joachim Le Floch-Imad is director of the Res Publica Foundation and professor of general culture in higher education. He has just published "Tolstoy. Une vie philosophique" (Éditions du Cerf, 2023)

Thursday, June 22 Pap Ndiaye announced a doubling, from 2024, of the hourly volume devoted to moral and civic education in middle school (one hour per week instead of thirty minutes) and a redesign of the programs around three poles: "transmission of the values of the Republic", "challenges of the ecological transition and eco-citizenship" and "media and information literacy". This roadmap is in line with the proposals of the National Council for Refoundation and recent statements by Elisabeth Borne.

Matignon highlights, for example, the need for a more "playful" study of the functioning of institutions and a revision of programs "hand in hand with young people". The republican school being, in essence, a place where the child accepts a preliminary phase of heteronomy...

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