<b>Gustave Monod and the renewal of secondary education in france

Abstract

In this article, we aimed to understand the nouvelles classes, devised by the educator Gustave Monod and put intopractice in the French educational system in the immediate post-World War II. To this end, we initially explore the trajectory of Gustave Monod, highlighting his connection to the pedagogical perspective of the Movement of the New School and his participation in pacifist and anti-fascist political organizations. The focus of the analysis is placed on the decisive participation of Monot in creating the nouvelles classes in public schools in France, as well as in effecting the Centre International d'Etudes Pédagogiques (CIEP) in the city of Sèvres, a transnational space for the exchange of experiences of educational renewal. To guide the research, we used the notions of circulation and appropriation coined by Roger Chartier and an empirical corpus consisting of articles and books of French and Brazilian authors. The relevance of this study is due to the fact that several Brazilians had a professional training at the CIEP in the 1950s and employed the experience of nouvelles classes to produce the model of experimental secondary classes, which renewed the Brazilian secondary education.