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Book SynopsisFrench school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic's identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. This book shows how such techniques engage present-day readers and viewers in acts of interpretation.
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The Pedagogical Imagination showcases Sachs' own fine pedagogical skills."—Lisa Connell,
French Forum“Sachs weaves together disciplines that have traditionally been distinct (literature, literary theory, reading pedagogy, film studies, history), and he does so in a way that is strikingly original and provocative.”—Mortimer Martin Guiney, author of Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading the Republican Legacy 1. A New Language of Learning: Object Lesson Pedagogy and the Modern Reader 2. Visualizing Literacy: From Pierre Larousse to Agnès Varda’s Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 3. Teaching Suspicion: Erik Orsenna’s La grammaire est une chanson douceas a Modern Tour de la France par deux enfants 4. A Classic Dodge: Republican Conflict and Islamic Solutions in Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’esquive 5. Writing on Walls: Laïcité and Literary Form in François Bégaudeau’s Entre les murs Conclusion: The Strangeness of Republican Culture Notes Bibliography Index
