Education in France : continuity and change in the Mitterrand years, 1981-1995 / / edited by Anne Corbett and Bob Moon

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 p.)
• Disciplina: 379.1/54/0944
• Soggetto topico: Education and state - France; Educational change - France
• Soggetto geografico: France Politics and government 1981-1995
• Altri autori: CorbettAnne MoonBob <1945->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Series introduction; Preface; Sources; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Secular, free and compulsory: republican values in French education Anne Corbett; Education and training in Europe for the year 2010 Rene Mabit; Introduction; The 'loi Jospin': The Education Framework Act 1989; Work, worth, talent Jean-Pierre Chevnement; Now or never Lionel Jospin; Avoiding the break-up of the French education system Francois Bayrou; Introduction; Constraints on policy innovation in education: Thatcher's Britain and Mitterrand's France John S.Ambler ; Policy implementation in the French public bureaucracy: the case of education Roger Duclaud-WilliamsChallenging the idea of centralized control: the reform of the French curriculum in a European context Bob Moon; Decentralizing the education system: A test for the regionsHelne Hatzfeld; The regions in the educational race Christine Garin; A changing focus of power: from the all-powerful state to the user-customer Robert Ballion; Introduction; Nursery education for the two-year-old: social and educational effects Jean-Pierre Jarousse, Alain Mingat and Marc Richard ; Educational homogeneity in French primary education: a double case study Keith SharpeA lesson in progress? Primary classrooms observed in England and France Marilyn Osborn and Patricia Broadfoot; Lower secondary education in France: from uniformity to institutional autonomy Jean-Louis Derouet; The educational renovation of the lycee: continuity or change? Andre Legrand and Georges Solaux; A sociology of the lycee student Francois Dubet, Olivier Cousin and Jean-Philippe Guillemet; Special education in France Felicity Armstrong ; From the schoolteacher to the expert: the IUFM and the evolution of training institutions Raymond BourdoncleIntroduction; Principles for reflecting on the curriculum Pierre Bourdieu; A pair of boots is as good as Shakespeare Alain Finkielkraut; The educational maelstrom Antoine Prost; Is differentiated teaching out of date? Philippe Meirieu; Academic failure, social failure: teaching in the lost suburbs Maurice Lemoine; Scarves, schools and segregation: the foulard affair David Beriss; The child, a citizen at school Jacqueline Costa-Lascoux; The French education system; Glossary; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In common with most industrialised countries, France has undertaken an ambitious programme of education reform over the last fifteen years. This book uses key extracts from contemporary writing to examine exactly how and why that process has happened, focusing on all stages of the education system. Sections cover the main characteristics of school reform in France, its aims and objectives, a discussion of the desirability of and politics surrounding the reform process, and explorations of classroom practice, the changing role of parents, standards in schools, and the curriculum. Because of its
• Titolo autorizzato: Education in France
• ISBN: 1-134-83150-1; 1-134-83149-8; 1-280-33135-6; 0-203-29675-3; 0-203-03568-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783608103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International developments in school reform.