The science of education in Lyon: Initiative between state and local history teaching, the registry of scientific positivity on a spiritualist tradition (1884-1945)

Abstract

The paper aims to articulate the political and administrative cadre who chairs the university system of science education in the city of Lyon, and the performance of the leading intellectuals actors involved in its construction: Thamin, Chabot, Bourjade. We analyze here the conditions of the continuing education of science education in Lyon after 1920, while it disappeared in most of French universities. Why science education, Lyon, it not affected by the disenchantment of the political project that, in times of reform Ferry, had chaired its institutionalization? The paths of these three professors, its roots in an explicit spiritualism, his interest in child psychology, the depoliticization of his views have led them to develop intellectual and institutional strategies to promote a favorable pedagogical culture capable of responding to both the university theoretical requirements, and worry anchored in professional fields.

Keywords

• institución
• pedagogía
• psicología experimental
• ciencia de la educación