This afternoon at the Sorbonne, advocates and detractors, as Pierre Nora, reform programs will join representatives of associations of history teachers to discuss the draft of the Minister of Education.
Organized by the Higher Council for Curriculum, independent body by law in 2013 to write the programs, this day is being held parallel to the ongoing consultation of teachers after which the CP programs will be at the third amended, as were those, more consensual, maternal. These will be finalized in September for entry into force in 2016 September.
“Given controversies”, the CSP is organizing this forum “to gather the opinions both more knowledgeable and more that are free . “, according to its President Michel Lussault
blunders and inaccuracies
The first version of the programs has triggered strong criticism of historians, intellectuals or political, sometimes very remote texts – d ‘where about Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is taking the “pseudo-intellectuals.” Some blunders in their writing, recognized by Michel Lussault, were also able to promote misinterpretations
Some blame the future program to replace the teaching of Christianity by Islam, which is wrong. L Islam will be taught in the fifth, as he was already, Judaism and Christianity will always be taught in sixth, as programs, contrary to what has sometimes been said, are chronological.
D ‘ Others criticize the distinction between compulsory and those periods at the discretion of the teacher, the Enlightenment, present also in the course of art history. This distinction “is to prevent the learning of history is limited to a short-lived memorizing facts and dates instead of introducing a reflection on the past,” explain Le Monde two PSC members, Denis Paget and Patrick Rayou.
Trend “repentance”
The President of the CSP has “admitted that the drafting of these history programs contained some flaws, which made them unclear, including the mandatory-optional history, on which I would like to go back, “said Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.
Some also criticize a tendency to” repentance “, saying too much emphasis to the dark pages of the history of France at the expense of glorious periods. “Everything that recalls both the Christian roots of France made the national (conflicts, annexations of provinces, treaties between States) is ignored,” lamented Le Figaro Patrice Gueniffey, Director studies at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS).
These programs are “a form of national guilt that gives pride to Islam, the slave trade, to the slavery and tends to reinterpret the entire development of the West and France through the prism of colonialism and its crimes, “added Pierre Nora with the Sunday newspaper .
National Narrative against national novel
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the program “has to tell a national story, not a national novel, that is to say, it s’ is not fiction. ” We must “make clear to young people the world in which they live, knowing the past of France” but also “France in the world.” “The glorious periods as the dark periods are used to understand how France became France. “
” Since the 1980s, every rewrite history curriculum is accompanied by a disaster of speech, “says Laurence De Cock in a blog, a history professor and member of the collective Aggiornamento.
Now, the school has welcomed children “immigration heirs, who gradually came to question clichés of the national narrative.” “More or less awkwardly,” programs “have opened to otherness’ have returned to a colonial past” ill digested yet, “she added. “The questions are now raised and historical objectivity can not return to these certainties, except to call for the state lie. “
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