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Secularism: the urgency of teacher training

2021-01-11T21:07:52.224Z


Training courses set up by the Conseil des Sages de la laïcité in Poitiers allow future heads of establishments and future inspectors to learn about secularism and the prevention of radicalization at school.


Teacher training is shifting into high gear.

For two years now, the Council of the Sages of Secularism, installed by Jean-Michel Blanquer, has been designing secularism training sessions for the Institute for the Training of National Education Executives (IH2EF), in Poitiers.

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Each year, around 2,000 future school heads and future inspectors follow these mandatory one-day training courses.

On the program: case studies from real situations.

Like these three students refusing to visit a cathedral on the grounds that they are not Catholics, therefore not concerned;

these parents asking for exemptions from sex education classes;

this student informing his education advisor of his absence on Vesak day, a Buddhist religious festival, or this teacher of Greek origin explaining that he will be absent because he celebrates Orthodox Christmas.

These scenarios aim to provide avenues for reflection, by returning to the legal framework and the law of 1905, far from

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Source: lefigaro

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