Education to democracy

The Japanese-French program POLITICAL EDUCATION FOR HUMAN TRANSFORMATION (2019-2021), supported by the JSPS and CNRS, aims at an interdisciplinary research on moral and political education, and at a collective inquiry into democracy as a form of life.

This workshop shall explore the question whether there can be education for democracy and by what new means: the need for a transmission of democratic values seems urgent, in the face of terrorist threats, the pandemic, political crises, and various restrictions on liberties.

Program

Friday, December 18th, 9:00 am- 5 pm

• 9:00 Welcome and opening: Sandra Laugier and Naoko Saito

Panel 1 Political Education in times of crisis
Chair: Vanessa Nurock (Paris 8 Vincennes St Denis, EVA)

• 9:15 Crossing gender divides: Transcendentalist political education
• Naoko Saito (Kyoto University)
• 10:00 Ethical and political education(s): rethinking pedagogy through the lens of feminism and antiracism
• Mickaelle Provost (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• 10:45 Break

Chair: Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS, Fondation France-Japon)

• 11:00 Forms of disaster and forms of care
• Anne Gonon (Doshisha University)
• 11:45 Learning from Covid
• Sandra Laugier (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Panel 2 Democracy in/on Film
Chair: Pauline Blistène (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• 1:30 The very idea of a "nuclear education" in Japanese cinema
  Elise Domenach (ENS Lyon)
• 2:15: Some virtues of philosophical and cinematographic education to democracy
  Hugo Clémot (Tours)
• 3:00 Break
• 3:15 How a security series can be a way to educate to democracy: the case of Homeland
  Thibaut de Saint Maurice (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• 4.00 Politically devastating passions”: romance and realism in cinema's aesthetics of democracy
  Alexis Gibbs (Winchester University)

Saturday, December 19th, 9:00 am- 5 pm

Panel 3 Perfectionism and Culture
Chair: Pierre Fasula (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• 9:15 Bildung, Unimportance, and the Education to Democracy: a Rortian Proposal
  Sarin Marchetti (Roma La Sapienza)
• 10:00 Democracy at Work. On Vocational Education.
  Baptiste Cornardeau (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• 10:45 Break
• 11:00 Self-Reliance and Self-Education : from Emerson’s moral perspective to the current Democratic Issues of Self-Education
  Léa Boman (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• 11:45 Is education to French Republicanism an education to democracy?
  Albert Ogien (CNRS-EHESS

Panel 4 New perspectives on political education
Chair: Paola Marrati (Johns Hopkins University)

• 1: 30 On asking the question: "Why is my curriculum white?"
  Paul Standish (UCL School of Education)
• 2:15 Psychoanalysis as education
  Emma Williams (University of Warwick)
• 3:00 Break
• 3:15 Not looking for answers: philosophy with children as transformation and education to democracy
  Layla Raïd (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
• 4:00 Rethinking education
  Piergiorgio Donatelli (Roma La Sapienza)
• 4:45 Conclusions

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