Juan Carlos González Faraco

La libertad posible : ideas para una educación para la ciudadanía activa a partir de la obra de Michel Foucault

In this article we examine some fundamental aspects of the thought of Michel Foucault, those that, in our judgment, can represent an important contribution to education, specifically in the area of citizenship education. In order to develop these arguments, we apply hermeneutical rules to the study of the diverse texts of the French philosopher, in which are reflected, although normally in an implicit manner, his thinking about education. It is certain that Foucault did not pretend to develop an educational theory, nor did he manifest any interest in pedagogy, at least in the strict sense, and his never took education as an overriding question. However, his analysis of the function of knowledge in relation to power, his concept of reason, the double dimension of his method and other categories of his thought,

École primaire, école de base

La Revue internationale d’education de Sevres editee par le Centre international d’etudes pedagogiques consacre sa derniere livraison a l’ecole primaire dans plusieurs pays : Allemagne, Cameroun, Espagne, Finlande, France, Pays-Bas. Partout, des missions identiques d’alphabetisation et d’identification nationale lui sont devolues. Partout, elle constitue le pilier de la scolarisation obligatoire. >> Lire la suite