A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #349 - Culture, Class questions: Teaching is a combat sport (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The Questions de Classe(s) collective is launching a new collection of 
books in addition to those published in the "N'Autre école" collection 
published by Libertalia. The first two works, From Montessori to 
neuroscience and Caporalize, exploit, mistreat are two pleas for a 
school of the common, of the collective, a collaborative and 
emancipatory school against attacks coming either from individualist 
pedagogies or from managerial logics.
In From Montessori to Neurosciences, Alain Chevarin and Grégory Chambat, 
both teachers and activists at Sud Éducation, take up an updated and 
expanded version of the journal N'Autre école, demonstrating how behind 
the discourse on educational innovation hides an individualist and 
liberal of the school. Blanquer himself having declared that he wanted 
to distill the "Montessori spirit"... he was undoubtedly referring to 
the mutual admiration that Benito Mussolini and Maria Montessori had for 
each other. The latter was elevated in 1924 to the rank of "honorary 
member of the Fascist Women's Organization" while for his part the Duce 
was made "honorary president of Opera Montessori, the Society of Friends 
of the Montessori Method."

Célestin Freinet was already protesting against these collusions with 
the Mussolini regime but also against the elitist dimension of the 
Montessori method and the lack of concern for the future of children 
from the working classes. Today, behind the label of new or alternative 
pedagogies hides a lucrative business into which an entire liberal 
movement is rushing, more concerned with distinction than with the 
collective.

For its part, the work of Jacqueline Triguel, also a teacher, unionized 
at Sud Éducation and activist at Icem-Pédagogie Freinet, takes a 
critical look at school management and its "effects on staff and work 
collectives" . But the work does not stop there, following the analysis 
of the ravages of management on schools, the author offers us avenues of 
resistance for collective emancipation.

Just as Bourdieu said about sociology, pedagogy is a combat sport and 
these two works are two weapons intended for those who do not give up 
and campaign unionically and pedagogically, the two being linked, for a 
school emancipatory and egalitarian public.

David (UCL Savoies)

Jacqueline Triguel, Caporalize, exploit, mistreat Understanding school 
management to better resist it, Éditions Questions de classe(s), March 
2024, 200 pages, 10 euros.
Grégory Chambat, Alain Chevarin, From Montessori to neuroscience. 
Offensives against the common school, Éditions Questions declass(s), 
March 2024, 150 pages, 10 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Questions-de-classe-s-La-pedagogie-est-un-sport-de-combat
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