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Leon Sachs - The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film - 9780803245051 - V9780803245051
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The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film

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Description for The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film Hardback. French 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. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.

French 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. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful representations of classroom reality, The Pedagogical Imagination takes a different approach.
In this study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first-century French literature and film, Leon Sachs shifts our attention from “what” literature and film say about education to “how” they say it. He argues that the most important literary and filmic ... Read more

The Pedagogical Imagination shows how such techniques engage present-day readers and viewers in acts of interpretation that reproduce pedagogical principles of active, experiential learning—principles at the core of late nineteenth-century educational reform that became vehicles for the diffusion of republican ideology.


 

 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803245051
SKU
V9780803245051
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Leon Sachs
Leon Sachs is an associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Kentucky.

Reviews for The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film
"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

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