Youth and social movements: becoming an active citizen
High school and university students seem to be able to move mountains to get their ideas across. Politicians are finding that youth are likely to turn their backs on them if they are betrayed or misunderstood. Now trained in citizenship from the earliest grades, young people are speaking out and taking responsibility for opposing bills that they consider counterproductive or dangerous to freedom and equality.
Social engineering and intent on others
The confrontation of social engineering and intention on and for others. Sometimes citizens grumble at technocrats who use different forms of engineering, techniques and methods; the question is not so much the existence of this engineering as the sharing of intentions and goals to be pursued.
Hard time for the book
The book does not spend its best hours. The current enemy is not its digitization, but rather the sensitivity of others. On the left, people who would like to try to erase the offensive words of the past. On the right, censorship against all books that speak of alternative sexualities, feminism or racial inequalities.
What will education be like in twenty years?
What will the school of 2040 look like? Will there be any schools left? Teachers? The OECD and many others have tried to see the possible futures in pedagogy. So states will really have to choose between an improved but similar model and a total transformation that would come with other questions.
The most powerful policy for improving education is poverty reduction.
A small reduction in family poverty leads to significant increases in positive school behaviour and better academic performance. With supporting data and statistics.