The pedagogical imagination : the republican legacy in twenty-first-century French literature and film / Leon Sachs.

By:

Sachs, Leon, 1967-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780803255111
080325511X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pedagogical imaginationDDC classification:

840.9/0092 23

LOC classification:

PQ317 .S25 2014eb

Other classification:

PER004030 | EDU011000 | LIT004150

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. New Language of Learning: Object Lesson Pedagogy and the Modern Reader -- 2. Visualizing Literacy: From Pierre Larousse to Agnes Varda's Les glaneurs et la glaneuse -- 3. Teaching Suspicion: Erik Orsenna's La grammaire est une chanson douce as a Modern Tour de la France par deux enfants -- 4. Classic Dodge: Republican Conflict and Islamic Solutions in Abdellatif Kechiches Lesquive -- 5. Writing on Walls: Laicite and Literary Form in Francois Begaudeau's Entre les murs.

Summary: "French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic's identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful representations of classroom reality, The Pedagogical Imagination takes a different approach. In this study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first-century French literature and film, Leon Sachs shifts our attention from "what" literature and film say about education to "how" they say it. He argues that the most important literary and filmic treatments of French education in recent years--the works of Agnes Varda, Érik Orsenna, Abdellatif Kechiche, Francois Bégaudeau--do more than merely depict the present-day school crisis. They explore questions of education through experiments with form. The Pedagogical Imagination shows how such techniques engage present-day readers and viewers in acts of interpretation that reproduce pedagogical principles of active, experiential learning--principles at the core of late nineteenth-century educational reform that became vehicles for the diffusion of republican ideology."-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "Study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first century French literature and film"-- Provided by publisher

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"French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic's identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful representations of classroom reality, The Pedagogical Imagination takes a different approach. In this study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first-century French literature and film, Leon Sachs shifts our attention from "what" literature and film say about education to "how" they say it. He argues that the most important literary and filmic treatments of French education in recent years--the works of Agnes Varda, Érik Orsenna, Abdellatif Kechiche, Francois Bégaudeau--do more than merely depict the present-day school crisis. They explore questions of education through experiments with form. The Pedagogical Imagination shows how such techniques engage present-day readers and viewers in acts of interpretation that reproduce pedagogical principles of active, experiential learning--principles at the core of late nineteenth-century educational reform that became vehicles for the diffusion of republican ideology."-- Provided by publisher.

"Study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first century French literature and film"-- Provided by publisher