Najat VALLAUD-BELKACEM, Minister of National Education, recalls the mobilization and intentions of the government in the coming weeks on the content of the citizen journey, with the establishment of moral and civic education and actions to celebrate and enhance the Republic.
Moral and civic education (EMC) will be provided to students in primary school, middle school and high school from the beginning of 2015. Commentary alternates with a statement to the press by Vincent PEILLON, Minister of Education, of a micro-sidewalk made with parents, and interview with Sébastien SIHR, of the union of teachers of schools (SNUIPP).
In a fifth grade class in Carcassonne (Aude), every other week the students receive a secular moral lesson of an hour and a half. It is a time of reflection and discussion for these children. Presentation of this experiment. Comments alternately with testimonies of students and the interview of their teacher Colette MONFRAIX.
Visit of Michel ROCARD and Michel CHARASSE in a school of the 14th arrondissement of Paris where they gave a course of civic education to the children and answered their questions on taxation.
The statements of Nicolas Sarkozy who said during a trip to a primary school in Périgeux, wishing to restore civic and moral education in primary school has aroused many reactions among teachers and students. Illustration in a Parisian primary school. Commentary on factual images that alternates with interviews of CM2 students, and Catherine PATIN GALANOPOULOS, principal.
Interview Jean Pierre CHEVENEMENT, Minister of National Education, on the two measures he has just taken: the restoration of civic education and the renovation of colleges.
At a symposium at the Economic and Social Council in Paris, Prime Minister Laurent Fabius announced that "the restoration of civic education in education should contribute to the development of our democracy". Indeed, the Minister of Education Jean Pierre Chevènement decided to enroll this subject again in the school program next year at a rate of one hour per week in primary school to begin, then in colleges and vocational high schools. Presentation of some risks related to the return of this teaching withdrawn in 1975. Interviews with Philippe VIGIER, historian member of the committee on civic education, and Philippe CHEVENEMENT, Minister of Education, who responds to criticism of a measure considered reactionary.
Jeanne Humbert, libertaire, et Raoul Benesse, ancien instituteur, évoquent les leçons de morale durant leur enfance à l'école laïque de la Troisième République : "Les leçons de morale, de civisme, étaient données et étaient très suivies et écoutées...", "Nous rentrions dans la classe, en rang, bien sûr, et nous commencions tout de suite la première leçon, qui était une leçon de morale, d'instruction civique..." Lecture off d'une de ces leçons sur photos noir et blanc.