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La réforme scolaire française des années 1880 jugée par la social-démocratie contemporaine de langue allemande

Authors :
Neumann, Frank
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2021.

Abstract

This paper reviews the results of educational reform in Prussia up to 1880 with reference to the failure of Social Democracy to apply the basic ideas of Marx in terms of an educational programme. The central points of the debate conducted in the theoretical journal Neue Zeit, in response to the French reform, were : i) Should religious instruction be replaced by a newly devised form of moral instruction ? (Bearing in mind that Marx deprecated action by the State as « educator of the people »), ii) The adoption of manual labour as an integral part of learning (Arbeitsunterricht) in the form advocated by the Swiss Robert Seidel, which was substituted for the Marxist conception of a synthesis of production and learning. Finally there is a consideration of some of the factors conditioning the failure of social democratic educational policy, i) in terms of the social and economic, political and cultural background and ii) shortcomings in theoretical terms which implied looking to bourgeois democratic programmes such as that in France rather than the demands advanced by Marx (Gegenwartsforderungen).

Details

Language :
French
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.openedition...819461d42269875b23b6f16c896bac19