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Observers Collective

When school invites us to “deconstruct kinship”

Canopé, formerly the "National Center for Educational Documentation", is a public administrative institution that depends on the Ministry of National Education and publishes educational resources. In September 2020, Canopé published a History file for Terminale classes

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Observers Collective

Posthumanism and education: sectarian drift at UNESCO?

In a document devoted to the "posthumanist approach" to education, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO does not hesitate to draw inspiration from Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf to deconstruct pedagogy and promote its replacement by "ancestral and indigenous holistic modes of knowledge."

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charles coutel

For diversity: the universalist message of the Enlightenment

[by Charles Coutel] Despite the interruptions due to the health crisis, our work has attempted to show, particularly within the Observatory of Decolonialism, the emancipatory role of universalism. This universalism has become for us, along the way, not only a

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Hubert Heckmann

Gender: circular reasoning

[by Hubert Heckmann] In a circular dated May 5, 2021 and published in the Official Bulletin of May 6, 2021, the Minister of National Education rejects the use of inclusive writing in schools: “it is appropriate to prohibit the use of writing

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Jean Szlamowicz

Invisibility, inclusivism and militant symbolism

[by Jean Szlamowicz] There are symbols and symbols. When we say that the lion is the symbol of strength, it is an idea accessible to everyone because it is a culturally shared representation. When we speak of "the invisibility of

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