French education : fifty years later

Editors' Preface I. Chronology II. Historical Perspectives Violaine Houdart-Merot Literary Education in the Lycee: Crises, Continuity, and Upheaval since 1880 Martine Jey The Literature of the Enlightenment: An Impossible Legacy for the Republican School Anne-Marie Chartier When French Schoolchildren were Introduced to Literature (1920-1940) Gilbert Chaitin Education and Political Identity: The Universalist Controversy III. Education Outside of the School, Outside of France Ralph Albanese Corneille as a Cultural Icon in France from the Third Republic to Today Sabine Loucif French in American Universities: Toward the Reshaping of Frenchness Brigitte Weltman-Aron The Pedagogy of Colonial Algeria: Djebar, Cixous, Derrida IV. The Persistent Controversy Pierre Albertini Why Kevin's Teacher Can't Teach Jean-Louis Chiss The Crisis in the Teaching of French and the Status of the Reference to Linguistics Dan Savatovsky The Founding and Refounding of French as a Discipline Tzvetan Todorov Reading and Living