Education in France: Continuity and Change in the Mitterand Years, 1981-1995 (International Developments in School Reform)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 10
Series introduction......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Sources......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Introduction......Page 22
Secular, free and compulsory: republican values in French education Anne Corbett......Page 24
Education and training in Europe for the year 2010 Rene Mabit......Page 41
Introduction......Page 64
The \'loi Jospin\': The Education Framework Act 1989......Page 68
Work, worth, talent Jean-Pierre Chevnement......Page 75
Now or never Lionel Jospin......Page 80
Avoiding the break-up of the French education system Francois Bayrou......Page 100
Introduction......Page 108
Constraints on policy innovation in education: Thatcher\'s Britain and Mitterrand\'s France John S.Ambler......Page 112
Policy implementation in the French public bureaucracy: the case of education Roger Duclaud-Williams......Page 138
Challenging the idea of centralized control: the reform of the French curriculum in a European context Bob Moon......Page 161
Decentralizing the education system: A test for the regionsHelne Hatzfeld......Page 183
The regions in the educational race Christine Garin......Page 202
A changing focus of power: from the all-powerful state to the user-customer Robert Ballion......Page 208
Introduction......Page 218
Nursery education for the two-year-old: social and educational effects Jean-Pierre Jarousse, Alain Mingat and Marc Richard......Page 222
Educational homogeneity in French primary education: a double case study Keith Sharpe......Page 235
A lesson in progress? Primary classrooms observed in England and France Marilyn Osborn and Patricia Broadfoot......Page 257
Lower secondary education in France: from uniformity to institutional autonomy Jean-Louis Derouet......Page 272
The educational renovation of the lycee: continuity or change? Andre Legrand and Georges Solaux......Page 289
A sociology of the lycee student Francois Dubet, Olivier Cousin and Jean-Philippe Guillemet......Page 304
Special education in France Felicity Armstrong......Page 319
From the schoolteacher to the expert: the IUFM and the evolution of training institutions Raymond Bourdoncle......Page 328
Introduction......Page 342
Principles for reflecting on the curriculum Pierre Bourdieu......Page 346
A pair of boots is as good as Shakespeare Alain Finkielkraut......Page 354
The educational maelstrom Antoine Prost......Page 368
Is differentiated teaching out of date? Philippe Meirieu......Page 378
Academic failure, social failure: teaching in the lost suburbs Maurice Lemoine......Page 388
Scarves, schools and segregation: the foulard affair David Beriss......Page 396
The child, a citizen at school Jacqueline Costa-Lascoux......Page 407
The French education system......Page 418
Glossary......Page 419
Index......Page 421