Mathematics teaching in French écoles normales primaires, 1830-1848: social and cultural challenges to the training of primary school teachers

• Autor(a) principal: D'Enfert, Renaud
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Búrigo, Elisabete Zardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/faced/article/view/34111
• topic: Primary school. Teacher training. France. Nineteenth century.; Escola primária. Formação de professores. França. Século XIX.

In the nineteenth century, the French education system, and teaching itself, was organized according to the social class the pupils came from: primary education was for the working classes, and secondary education was for the wealthier classes. In relation to this ‘educational duality,’ this paper looks at the mathematics teaching provided in the écoles normales primaires (primary teacher training colleges), which developed in France in the 1830s to train future (male) primary school teachers. What, precisely, was the content of this teaching? How was it organized? In what spirit and for what purpose was it provided? The aim of the paper is to show how these schools participated in the construction of a specifically primary mathematics culture for the education of the children from the lower classes, as distinct from the scholarly culture of secondary education.