Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738188168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738188168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Schools and Work
Author: Charles R. DayPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773521476
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
France is unique in the world in the degree to which is has tried to integrate technical and vocational training in its schools. Day (history, Simon Fraser U.) examines this reform in France since the late-nineteenth century, within the broader context of educational development and economic modernization. His analysis demonstrates ways in which government and industry have redefined skill requirements, reformed schools and programs, and established new forms of cooperation--work-study, continuing education, apprenticeship programs--to produce a well-educated and well-trained citizenry and workforce. c. Book News Inc.
The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory
Author: Nancy PartnerPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1848600429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory introduces the foundations of modern historical theory and the applications of theory to a full range of sub-fields of historical research, bringing the reader as up to date as possible with continuing debates and current developments. The book is divided into three key parts, covering: - Part I. Foundations: The Theoretical Grounds for Knowledge of the Past - Part II. Applications: Theory-Intensive Areas in History - Part III. Coda. Post-Postmodernism: Directions and Interrogations. This important handbook brings together, in one volume, discussions of modernity, empiricism, deconstruction, narrative and postmodernity in the continuing evolution of the historical discipline into our post-postmodern era. Chapters are written by leading academics from around the world and cover a wide array of specialized areas of the discipline, including social history, intellectual history, gender, memory, psychoanalysis and cultural history. The influence of major thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Hayden White is fully examined. This handbook is an essential resource for practising historians, and students of history, and will appeal to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities who seek a closer understanding of the theoretical foundations of history.
Education in France
Author: Anne CorbettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134831501
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
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 high quality, wide and up-to-date coverage of the area, this book will be a vital reference text for all those working in this field.
The Cultural Production of the Educated Person
Author: Bradley A. LevinsonPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791428597
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Examines the ways in which cultural practices and knowledges are produced in and out of schools around the world.
Contesting French West Africa
Author: Harry GamblePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149622597X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Harry Gamble examines the controversies of political and educational reform in French West Africa from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Francophone Perspectives of Learning Through Work
Author: Laurent FilliettazPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319186698
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This book generates a comprehensive account of ways in which practice-based learning has been conceptualized in the Francophone context. Learning for occupations, and the educational and practice-based experiences supporting it are the subject of increased interest and attention globally. Governments, professional bodies, workplaces and workers are now looking for experiences that support the initial and ongoing development of occupational capacities. Consequently, more attention is being given to workplaces as sites for this learning. This focus on learning through work has long been emphasised in the Francophone world, which has developed distinct traditions and conceptions of associations between work and learning. These include ergonomics and professional didactics. Yet, whilst being accepted and of long standing in the Francophone world, these conceptions and traditions, and the practices supporting them are little known about or understood in the Anglophone world, which is the dominant medium for scientific and educational discussion. This book addresses this problem through drawing on accounts from France, Switzerland and Canada that make accessible and elaborate these traditions, conceptions and practices through examples of their applications to occupationally related learning. These accounts offer variations and culturally-specific developments of these traditions, but collectively emphasize a preoccupation with how both work and learning need to be understood through situated considerations of persons enacting their work practice. In this way, they offer noteworthy and worthwhile contributions to contemporary global considerations of learning through work.
Gaston Bachelard
Author: Cristina ChimissoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136453814
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French Philosopher of Science, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the century. The book is introduced by a study - based on an analysis of portraits and literary representations - of how Bachelard's admirers transformed him into the mythical image of the Philosopher, the Patriarch and the 'Teacher of Happiness'. Such a projected image is contrasted with Bachelard's own conception of philosophy and his personal pedagogical and moral ideas. This pedagogical orientation is a major feature of Bachelard's texts, and one which deepens our understanding of the main philosophical arguments. The primary thesis of the book is based on the examination of the French educational system of the time and of French philosophy taught in schools and conceived by contemporary philosophers. This approach also helps to explain Bachelard's reception of psychoanalysis and his mastery of modern literature. Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination thus allows for a new reading of Bachelard's body of work, whilst at the same time providing an insight into twentieth century French culture.
A History of Private Life: Riddles of identity in modern times
Author: Philippe ArièsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674399792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
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Realms of Memory: Conflicts and divisions
Author: Pierre NoraPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231084048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
How do human societies leave their mark on the world so they are not forgotten? This is a collection of work by leading French intellectuals exploring the statutes, cathedrals, palaces, rituals, legends and events of history that form the architecture of the French collective consciousness.
