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Matilda, a shaky educational resource

by Roland Piochet Here is another fascinating site. Logoted Éducation Nationale, obviously: we will come back to it. This site presents itself as an educational documentation site. Childish presentation, font "white chalk on blackboard style" and division into

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Document. “Teaching sexual equality” in primary school

How we moved, in nursery and elementary school, from the "fight against discrimination" to the "deconstruction of heteronormativity" and the promotion of "non-heterosexual orientations" Here is the transcription of a conference given at the ESPE of the Paris Academy in 2019, as part of a

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The French language at the Sorbonne or the aesthetics of ruins

Fictitious interview The question of the positioning of the Sorbonne in the globalized context of higher education is essential. Today, the major training circuits "do not go abroad" and the Sorbonne, in order not to be outdated, must obviously align itself with its

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“Learning Nation”: Should Lumni be unplugged?

A lot of woke or questionable content is present on the platform https://www.lumni.fr/ which was recommended to all students, from kindergarten to high school, during the lockdown. An “educational platform” offering numerous educational resources, https://www.lumni.fr/ bears the “Nation” label

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When the school invites us to recall the happy times of the madrasas of the “pre-colonial Algerian school tradition”

In our CANOPE series (ex CNDP) is a goldmine: this file offered to teachers on Algeria by the same CNDP that can be found here: https://www.reseau-canope.fr/musee/fileadmin/user_upload/2019_dossier_pedagogique_algerie.pdf?fbclid=IwAR39ATfUSU4LkaUMlj54YWUBlUGRfkoxOW8d2CHKn80XVSkozqBmnKdmbf8 The documentary and the file can be viewed here: https://www.reseau-canope.fr/algerie/#0-Accueil We see the memory of Abd-el-Kader glorified there

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When school invites us to “deconstruct kinship”

Canopé, formerly the "National Center for Educational Documentation", is a public administrative institution that depends on the Ministry of National Education and publishes educational resources. In September 2020, Canopé published a History file for Terminale classes

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Posthumanism and education: sectarian drift at UNESCO?

In a document devoted to the "posthumanist approach" to education, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO does not hesitate to draw inspiration from Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf to deconstruct pedagogy and promote its replacement by "ancestral and indigenous holistic modes of knowledge."

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