The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film

In Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Mortimer Martin Guiney argued that despite its apparent hostility to Catholic influence in schools, the Republican education system had its own pious morality and will for social order. Leon Sachs m...

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Published in:French studies 2015, Vol.69 (1), p.130-130
Main Author: McKeane, J.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
21st century
Catholic schools
Cinema
Critical thinking
France
French literature
French studies
Influence
Literature
Motion pictures
Pedagogy
Religious education
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Summary:In Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Mortimer Martin Guiney argued that despite its apparent hostility to Catholic influence in schools, the Republican education system had its own pious morality and will for social order. Leon Sachs makes a contrasting argument, being, as he is, largely favourable towards the Republic and seeing its educational system as a proponent of free, critical thinking.
ISSN:0016-1128
1468-2931
DOI:10.1093/fs/knu258