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Disintegrating National Education for want of reforming it

We are reproducing here the article published in L'Express at the following address: https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/idees-et-debats/a-defaut-de-pouvoir-reformer-l-education-nationale-on-la-desagrege_2170226.html [by Pierre Vermeren] The policy pursued for five years in National Education has benefited from favorable circumstances: a good connoisseur of his ministry, a thoughtful reform program approved

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Why we must save old French in universities

[Xavier-Laurent Salvador] We are reproducing here the text of an article published here: https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/idees-et-debats/pourquoi-il-faut-sauver-l-ancien-francais-dans-les-universites_2169366.html The French language is continually evolving and adapting, that's a fact. But how will students be able to realize this if they are deprived of the intelligence of the language, which

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Mikhail Kostylev

Anti-Gone, or the hero-victim

[by Mikhail Kostylev] In "The Magnificent Seven" (a wonderful film that all Russians of my generation know, the Soviet censors having miraculously let it pass in the East), two cowboys enter a tavern to hire men.

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Mikhail Kostylev

Activism in Schools: The Woke Art of Milking the Mammoth

[by Mikhaïl KOSTYLEV] Since Le Figaro devoted a file to woke ideology in schools, a torrent of angry tweets has been raining down on the newspaper… and on the Observatory, whose work it cites. It’s the big competition

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Observers Collective

Is intersectionality the gimmick of this Master PIF?

The National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education (INSPE) of the Reims Academy created in September 2021 a Master MEEF mention PIF IDT course, led by teacher-researchers in sociology specializing in… intersectionality. Master MEEF, like Teaching Professions,

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Observers Collective

Studying porn “through participant observation”

Thesis on GAY PORNOGRAPHIC WORK: ALIENATION AND ENJOYMENT. SITUATED SOCIOLOGY OF (HOMO-)SEXUAL BODY WORK Thesis supervised by Patrick Rozenblatt, defended on January 13, 2021 at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 before the jury composed of Sébastien Chauvin, Christine Detrez, Samuel Julhe, Patrick

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