Mots scolaires et modèle éducatif

Abstract

Talk about the school words is really talk about school jargon, initials and acronyms. In french middle school and french high school, it seems that less noticed terms are more important. “School Life”, "administration", "authority" and "pedagogy" seem natural, so protected from questionings. Four notions, nevertheless, proceed from semantic constructions and from major ideological stakes. In spite of their polysemy, "school life", "administration" and "authority" assert the same school order, the same scale of values, the same statutory ranks and the same powers. In this view, the duality between teachers and non-teachers is the first education of the School. In this two-tier logic answers an other fact, confirmed by the semantic use. The "pedagogy" is located in the theoretical center of the school activity, but the "pedagogy" is rarely evoked in its practical aspects. Maybe to protect the closed door of the classroom and the difficulties of their implementation, the actors of french high schools and french middle schools speak about "pedagogy" in a reified sense and a motionless feeling. The true meaning of "teaching staff", "educational freedom" or pedagogical deed, is never debated.

Keywords

• organization and functioning of the establishments
• pedagogy: theories and history
• school life
• pedagogy: methods and tools
• educational inequalities
• learning difficulties and students in difficulty