Education in France (PDF)

The French like to think they are different and unique. But any education system has to meet broadly similar objectives. It also has to be managed. In this inside view of the French education system we hear ministers and their advisors analysing the issues and giving their opinions in their own words, and, for the first time, in English. We also hear the voices of academics and journalists: the political scientist and the philospher, the educationalist and the historian, the sociologist and the reporter. The topics are both familiar and specific to France, the products of general trends and the products of France's particular history.
This book is one of a series Routledge has launched to give English-speaking policy-makers and education specialists an insight into the context in which some of the world's major education systems operate.
The book brings together a selection of key texts in the French educational debate of the last 15 years. Most of the contributors are French and presented for the first time in translation. The contributors writing in English in the original have a professional involvement in France.
The editors have written widely on French education and comparative educational issues. Anne Corbett is a journalist. Bob Moon is professor of education at the Open University.
The readings are built around the context in which the system currently operates: its aim, its actors, its structures and its values.
Already available: Education in Japan, Education in Spain. Forthcoming: Education in Germany