Michel Fabre

• Polytech Nantes

Bien qu’institutionnellement moins représentée que jadis en sciences de l’éducation, la philosophie de l’éducation, ce « luxe inutile », existe néanmoins. Elle est active, comme en témoignent deux revues spécialisées (Penser l’éducation, Le Télémaque) ainsi qu’un certain nombre de colloques et d’ouvrages depuis les années 1990. En 2006 est créée la...

In french curriculum, the PSHE (Personal Social and Health Education) seem to import values’ considerations beyond traditional knowledge. That is controversial. But this weberian dualism (facts versus values) must be critiqued. From Habermas, every knowledge is linked to human interests and, in the other hand, you can discuss about values and criti...

This article will analyze imposture as a kind of values’ confusion. It will take as an example the neoliberal claim to make the entrepreneur the teacher of the 21th century. Such a rhetoric makes a common sense based on two schemes well identified by Foucault, the schema of “compensation of values” from German ordoliberalism and that of “convertibi...

In France, there is no consensus between traditional political parties, on the left wing as well as the right about secularism. It takes different kinds of words: "open", "positive", "intransigent", "intelligent", etc. The aim of this paper is to describe the uses of this polysemic notion and to understand the origin of the conflicts between secula...

This paper tries to show that by crossing the fundamental theses of Dewey’s philosophy of education and its specific attention on school training, it is possible to develop criteria able to equip educational vigilance: the opening of the training, its character of praxis, renouncing of theory and practice‘s dualisme, meaning of enquiry. Any process...

Le livre Freinet, 70 ans après. Une pédagogie du travail et de la dédicace, publié en 1998, était épuisé trois ans après sa première édition. Compte tenu du bon accueil que cet ouvrage a reçu parmi les chercheurs universitaires, ainsi que parmi les praticiens, il nous a semblé utile de le rééditer. En effet, c’est précisément d’une journée de trava...