« Histoires de Bahuts » : un projet participatif d’inventaire des lycées en Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Abstract

In the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, since 2016, a collaborative inventory plan of the high schools’ heritage was deployed, in collaboration with the students. Thus, each year, in some volunteer schools, students studied the heritage history of their ‘bahut’ (French slang for “high school”) and shared their findings by becoming guides during the European Heritage Days. This article looks back over to the construction of this project named “Histoires de Bahuts”, “Schools’ Stories” and presents the experiences carried out in Aquitaine, in Poitou-Charentes and in Limousin regions. After several years of operation, the author suggests renewing this plan, mainly by building it on the current concepts and practices going on in the participatory science and in the field of cultural rights.

Keywords

• school heritage
• cultural rights
• artistic and cultural education
• high schools
• grammar schools
• participatory science