TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferhat,Ismail
AU  -  Poucet,Bruno
TI  - Political thought critical of education?
PY  - 2016///.
							
N1  - 36
N2  - The education system is an important issue for those on the left in the French government. That knowledge is a condition of emancipation is a common feature of these political forces. However, there has been no consensus on the perception of school and on the education policies to be implemented. The communists have had their own agenda on this issue. The “radicals” (moderate and bourgeois left) and socialists have also issued specific platforms on schools. The interactions between education and revolutionary leftist movements in the recent decades have been less studied. This is a paradox considering that school was traditionally afforded important (and critical) attention by these political forces. Since 1968, the education system has also been a key field of reflection and action for them. The revolutionary left is studied here through the cases of the Trotskyist parties LCR and OCI, the alternative left-wing party PSU, far left currents within teachers’ unions, students’ unions, pedagogical movements, and left-wing Christian structures. First, on the whole, these movements on the revolutionary left seem to differ from leftist parties in government on the issue of school. Second, they have been deeply divided on this subject. The most radical oppose the very idea of school as a separate institution, while others denounce the inequalities in education that ensue from capitalism according to Baudelot and Establet (1971). By contrast, some firmly believe in the virtues of education, diplomas, and culture for all. Third, school was a field in which the revolutionary left enjoyed disproportionate influence compared to the rest of the French society, especially among teachers, students, and professionals. The period studied here starts with the social and student movement of 1968, a moment of intense activity and influence for revolutionary leftist organizations. It ends with the primary school teachers’ strikes of 1987, the last major mobilization explained in part by the political sensibility of the issue of education
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-les-etudes-sociales-2016-1-page-97?lang=en
ER  -