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.
The right to school: rights go hand in hand with duties
We are immersed in the law on a daily basis, but many rules are acquired by reflex or imitation, without any knowledge of their social, legal or conventional basis. At school, we can take advantage of courses or discussions during which rights and duties are put into perspective.
Perseverance: avoiding school dropout
Dropping out of school is seen as a huge waste. It is sometimes perceived as a fatality. People are resigned to the idea that some children are not "made for school". Others see it as a guarantee of quality: a pathway where all succeed is suspect. But the actors of education are becoming aware of its economic and human cost. Studies, experiments and associative actions suggest some ways forward.
Influential algorithms or control over our brains?
What is an algorithm? How does it work? What are the associated issues? These are some of the questions we are facing, including in education.
Humans in continuity with their environment
A plea text that shows that knowledge passes through a human, its environment and transforms itself, and is not a cut-out of the living. On this condition, knowledge is alive and regenerating.