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17 SES 11, Grammar of Schooling, Forme scolaire, Modèle scolaire. Concepts and Models Describing Mass Scolarization and the Teaching State (19th-20th Centuries)
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Contribution
The concept of “school form” (Vincent, 1980) aims at conceptualizing the institutionalization of education under the aegis of State, in a longue durée concurrence with the Church (Cabanel, 2007). Theoretically, the paper uses this concept in order to apply it to the French school model, in other words to the school “in the French way”. These latter words are of a different kind. The refer to the will of actors – politicians, ideologues, promoters of a “grand story” – to build not only, at least as ideal, the French school reality as international prototype but also to export it, sometimes brutally Through its origin, this model is linked to the philosophical option of universalism that give school the responsibility non only to build the French nation, but also almost all humankind enters into a crisis when colonialism is refused, and when colonialism is in a certain sense identified with universalism, which is not entirely wrong. Our paper discusses the possibility, with regard to the evolution of “school form”, to substitute a philosophical option of relativism to a non critical universalism and its consequences, and the conditions to “return” to a renewed universalism (Fourquin, 1991).
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