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Mikhail Kostylev

Anti-Gone, or the hero-victim

[by Mikhail Kostylev] In "The Magnificent Seven" (a wonderful film that all Russians of my generation know, the Soviet censors having miraculously let it pass in the East), two cowboys enter a tavern to hire men.

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Observers Collective

Is intersectionality the gimmick of this Master PIF?

The National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education (INSPE) of the Reims Academy created in September 2021 a Master MEEF mention PIF IDT course, led by teacher-researchers in sociology specializing in… intersectionality. Master MEEF, like Teaching Professions,

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Observers Collective

Studying porn “through participant observation”

Thesis on GAY PORNOGRAPHIC WORK: ALIENATION AND ENJOYMENT. SITUATED SOCIOLOGY OF (HOMO-)SEXUAL BODY WORK Thesis supervised by Patrick Rozenblatt, defended on January 13, 2021 at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 before the jury composed of Sébastien Chauvin, Christine Detrez, Samuel Julhe, Patrick

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Collective

Matilda, a shaky educational resource

by Roland Piochet Here is another fascinating site. Logoted Éducation Nationale, obviously: we will come back to it. This site presents itself as an educational documentation site. Childish presentation, font "white chalk on blackboard style" and division into

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Observers Collective

Document. “Teaching sexual equality” in primary school

How we moved, in nursery and elementary school, from the "fight against discrimination" to the "deconstruction of heteronormativity" and the promotion of "non-heterosexual orientations" Here is the transcription of a conference given at the ESPE of the Paris Academy in 2019, as part of a

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Collective

The French language at the Sorbonne or the aesthetics of ruins

Fictitious interview The question of the positioning of the Sorbonne in the globalized context of higher education is essential. Today, the major training circuits "do not go abroad" and the Sorbonne, in order not to be outdated, must obviously align itself with its

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Observers Collective

“Learning Nation”: Should Lumni be unplugged?

A lot of woke or questionable content is present on the platform https://www.lumni.fr/ which was recommended to all students, from kindergarten to high school, during the lockdown. An “educational platform” offering numerous educational resources, https://www.lumni.fr/ bears the “Nation” label

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Collective

When the school invites us to recall the happy times of the madrasas of the “pre-colonial Algerian school tradition”

In our CANOPE series (ex CNDP) is a goldmine: this file offered to teachers on Algeria by the same CNDP that can be found here: https://www.reseau-canope.fr/musee/fileadmin/user_upload/2019_dossier_pedagogique_algerie.pdf?fbclid=IwAR39ATfUSU4LkaUMlj54YWUBlUGRfkoxOW8d2CHKn80XVSkozqBmnKdmbf8 The documentary and the file can be viewed here: https://www.reseau-canope.fr/algerie/#0-Accueil We see the memory of Abd-el-Kader glorified there

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