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En quête d'un citoyen moderne

En quête d'un citoyen moderne

L'enseignement moral et civique entre rénovation et précarisation

Edited by Camille Amilhat, Anne-Claire Husser

La croisée des chemins


In Search of a Modern Citizen
Moral and Civic Education between Renewal and Precariousness 

By studying the implementation of a renewed moral and civic education program in French schools from 2015 onwards, this book aims to shed light on the multiple conditions - political, institutional, organizational and intellectual - that shape citizenship education in schools. By reconstructing the different levels and logics of the actors involved in citizenship education as an educational policy, it draws inspiration from the sociology of public action, with the aim of bringing together sociology, philosophy, the history of education and subject didactics, through the analyses of researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
In the following chapters, these analyses attempt to understand the persistent precariousness of moral and civic education. Under what conditions, then, can school education in citizenship contribute to the effective formation of the citizen? What knowledge does the exercise of citizenship require in today's world? To what extent can political education be independent of moral education? Does civic education require specific teaching, or is it dependent on cross-disciplinary learning?
At a time when EMC curricula are once again being revised, the question is to explore in detail the possibilities, but also the obstacles and tensions underlying the project to educate for democratic citizenship at school.