La littérature dans l'enseignement secondaire (second cycle) en France de 1880 à 1925
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Abstract EN:
The teaching of french which evolved into an actual discipline by the turn of the last century was a teaching of literature. From the study of official school regulations, hand-books and baccalaureat exam topics, it appears that this new type of teaching, despite the obvious will to enlarge the scope of studies, mainly dealt with a corpus of authors and texts that had been priorily selected. The analysis of the exercises, which were spread as school exercises, in so far as they took up older exercises meant for a body of specialists, shows the issues met by the invention of the new discipline. The debates on pedagogy, which went with the elaboration of official regulations and with the different reforms, point to the aims and values at stake in the teaching of french, whose recognition was painstakingly legitimed and whose reference patterns evinced contradictory features. Concerning innovation or conservative factors in process, the debates within the high board of public instruction are more particularly telling and reveal the part played by the different actors of the institution.
Abstract FR:
L'enseignement du francais, qui se constitue en tant que discipline au tournant du siecle, est un enseignement litteraire. De l'etude des textes officiels, des manuels et des sujets de baccalaureat, il ressort que ce nouvel enseignement reprend, pour l'essentiel et malgre une volonte d'ouverture, un corpus d'auteurs et de textes anterieurement constitue. L'analyse des exercices qui s'imposent comme exercices scolaires, dans la mesure ou ils reprennent des exercices anciens destines a un public de specialistes, montre les difficultes liees a l'invention de la discipline. Les debats pedagogiques qui se tiennent lors de l'elaboration des textes officiels et a l'occasion des differentes reformes revelent les finalites et les enjeux de cet enseignement du francais, dont la legitimation est difficile et les modeles de reference contradictoires. Pour l'etude des facteurs d'innovation et d'immobilisme, les debats au sein du conseil superieur de l'instruction publique sont plus particulierement revelateurs du role joue par les differents acteurs de l'institution.