Operation neurons awakening. Until December 13, the 25th edition of Citéphilo philosophy festival settles in Lille and in several cities of Hauts-de-France to fight, again and again, against the idea that philosophy is boring.
At the heart of the hundred or so meetings offered by the organizers, the cinema is gaining a prominent place next weekend *, on the theme of alternative school pedagogies. A subject brought up to date with the confinements and closures of schools linked to the Covid-19 epidemic.
Google street view to the aid of teachers
“With the period that we have just lived, the question of education at school arises more than ever”, explains Jacques Lemière, lecturer at the University of Lille and programmer for this weekend. Thus, the three films on the program * each tackle an aspect of the subject.
Romani street view, filmed in Lille in 2014, evokes an educational approach, based on the Freinet method and on the images of Google street view, making it possible to make the Roma population adhere to school learning. School revolution 1918-39 looks at History and describes the different alternative pedagogies implemented in European countries on the way to a new school after the First World War. “It was a question of avoiding the domestication of citizens to make them good soldiers”, underlines Jacques Lemière.
Emancipate citizens
Finally, an Italian documentary in four episodes, Diary of a schoolmaster, looks at the daily life of a teacher who teaches in a difficult quarter of Rome. Or how we manage to convince, without coercion, parents to send their children to school. “This film opens a debate on the capacity or not of the school to emancipate its citizens”, adds Jacques Lemière.
Created in 1997, CitéPhilo is organized each year by an association of volunteers, including many professors of philosophy and human sciences. Several meetings will take place in high schools in the region to reach the students of the establishments.
* Saturday, from 4:45 p.m. and Sunday, from 10 a.m., at the auditorium of the Palais des Beaux-Arts, 18 bis rue de Valmy, in Lille. Free admission.