Tag: secularism
Sarah El Haïry: “Reading this report on secularism, I felt a certain dread”
“To analyze how the worlds of popular education are crossed by the questions associated today with secularism and religion”: this was the objective of a survey* carried out by three…
Council of Elders of Secularism: How Pap Ndiaye Twisted the Arm of the “Blanquerists”
A hushed battle had been going on for several months behind the scenes of the Ministry of National Education around questions of secularism. A daily article The world unveiled on…
Dominique Schnapper: “At school, many attacks on secularism are not reported”
The Council of Elders of Secularism, created in 2018 by Jean-Michel Blanquer to “specify the position of the educational institution in terms of secularism and secular teaching of religious facts”,…
Secularism at school: a threatened treasure… to be cherished
Planting a “tree of secularism”, poster or poetry competition, writing a charter drawn up by the students themselves… Every December 9, teachers compete with ideas to celebrate in their classrooms…
Secularism, nuclear, social… And if the French model was the solution rather than the problem!
According to some, we would not have understood anything. A little sad music has settled in our country – and unfortunately, too often among the elite – that France is…
Secularism: the government still caught up in its ambiguities
“As usual, Emmanuel Macron puts his secular eggs in all the baskets”, worries an attentive observer of the file. Because a gesture goes badly, including in the government. On December…
Boualem Sansal: “State management of secularism continues to be disastrous”
Since his tour in Germany where he presented his latest book, the Algerian writer and intellectual Boualem Sansal has answered our questions on French secularism. Where we are ? What…
Gilles Clavreul: Secularism, an idea for tomorrow
The surveys confirm to us what we have sensed for a long time: secularism is no longer popular, especially among young people. This century-long consensus continues to crumble: why? Should…
Secularism at school: why it is more necessary than ever to defend the law of 2004
“But in the end, why not leave young girls free to dress as they wish?”, we regularly hear in public opinion when it comes to enforcing the 2004 law, which…
Attacks on secularism in schools: the government unveils its action plan
In October, attacks on secularism in schools exploded. 720 reports were recorded. Faced with this growing phenomenon, the government has decided to respond by unveiling a new action plan. But…