Une culture "contre" l'autre: les idées de l'éducation nouvelle solubles dans l'institution scolaire d'Etat? Autour de la démocratisation de l'accès au savoir

• Autores: André D. Robert
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 42, Nº. 1-2, 2006 (Ejemplar dedicado a: New Education: Genesis and Metamorphoses / coord. por Rita Hofstetter, Charles Magnin, Marc Depaepe), págs. 249-261
• Idioma: francés
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  • This article reconsiders the opposition traditionally drawn between the state school institution and the new currents in education, which are said to be more concerned with the overall personality of the learner rather than with the intellectual value of the contents of the curriculum. In spite of some references to other countries, the article concentrates mainly on France during the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the democratic accessibility to the different types of knowledge available. Interest in particular is placed on the grey areas, the possible points of overlap where the two cultures could meet, even graft onto one another. Another point of interest is the case of certain personalities quoted as upholders of the new currents but nevertheless occupying official positions in state education (for example, R. Gal, G. Monod, P. Meirieu). Consequently, through a study of one of two significant events and these mediators, it is possible to assess the extent to which the new ideas in education are capable of criticizing and helping the state school institution to progress. At the same time we can query the extent to which these new ideas risk losing their own identity on contact with the institution, and whether in the long run they are being used simply as an alibi by the institution.