School and continuing education share at least one common objective: that of wanting to promote the emancipation of their audiences. But what emancipation are we talking about? How do we see it, on both sides? Courses of action for a school that liberates!
Description
This work was born from collective questioning, that of a working group which, for several months, has been questioning the links between continuing education (PE) and the world of school. These two important places of education often seem to evolve side by side, but without crossing paths, or even really knowing each other. However, if their approaches and methodologies are very different, they share at least one common objective: that of wanting to promote the emancipation of their audiences. But what emancipation are we talking about? How do we see it, on both sides?
The school, for its part, is currently facing many challenges. Without wanting to enter into the debate of "which school for the 21st century", which many actors have been tackling for years in different circles, the heart of our questioning is here: what does it mean, today, to be an emancipated and emancipator, an agent of change? We wish to initiate the debate on this specific mission of teaching, for which teachers very often feel helpless, lacking tools and analysis.
We see, generation after generation, that our school education system reproduces and fuels the inequalities, among other socio-economic ones, in our society. Our initial intuition is that the reflection carried out within the continuing education movement since its origins to achieve the emancipation of its audiences could serve as inspiration for teachers (as for other types of audiences elsewhere) to meet this challenge, both political and socio-economic.
