The failure of the Bufnoir plan to group together state sciences: A manifestation of discipline-based curricula in French higher education (end of the nineteenth century)
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2019.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : In 1892–1893, the curriculum plan of Claude Bufnoir, a law professor, proposing courses on “sciences d’État” (state sciences) common to all students in the faculties of law and the arts, was a failure. Nevertheless, it allows us to appreciate the mix of institutional and scientific issues that determine choices on the organization of higher education programs. In the long term, the Bufnoir plan has been integrated within the framework of regional universities since the 1880s. In the shorter term, the controversy caused by the Bufnoir plan highlights the structure of the Parisian academic field and the specific role of the École libre des sciences politiques; it also unveils the dominant conception of higher education programs: that of strictly discipline-based curricula informally but steadily distributed among several schools and institutions.
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In 1892–1893, the curriculum plan of Claude Bufnoir, a law professor, proposing courses on “sciences d’État” (state sciences) common to all students in the faculties of law and the arts, was a failure. Nevertheless, it allows us to appreciate the mix of institutional and scientific issues that determine choices on the organization of higher education programs. In the long term, the Bufnoir plan has been integrated within the framework of regional universities since the 1880s. In the shorter term, the controversy caused by the Bufnoir plan highlights the structure of the Parisian academic field and the specific role of the École libre des sciences politiques; it also unveils the dominant conception of higher education programs: that of strictly discipline-based curricula informally but steadily distributed among several schools and institutions.
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