AW: French government cuts teaching posts for minoritised languages
Steffen Obeling
sobeling at smail.uni-koeln.de
Wed Feb 18 11:37:38 UTC 2004
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
"Harold F. Schiffman" a *crit :
> French government cuts teaching posts for minoritised languages
> Brussel / Bruxelles 2/16/2004 , by Alexia Bos Sol & Davyth Hicks
>
> While Catalan has been under attack lately by Spanish politicians, the
> French state is reducing teaching posts for the minoritised languages
in
> its territories.
>
It should be added that the French government is reducing teaching posts
for
all the languages and even all the subjects (including French, arts,
maths,
sport, and so on), not only for the regional languages, which are not
particularly aimed at by these bad decisions.
Philippe Blanchet
--
[S.O.]
Furthermore, the teaching of Latin and Greek in French schools is about
to be cut completely. Please find below the short article by the
Académie Française (from
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/actualites/index.html). The Académie
points out that Latin and Greek, far from being an obstacle to the
learning of modern languages, were keys to the understanding of European
identity and foreign cultures.
12 février 2004 : communiqué
Il est à craindre quà la rentrée de 2004, lenseignement du grec et du
latin disparaisse de la quasi-totalité des lycées et bientôt des
collèges de France.
LAcadémie française exprime sa vive désapprobation dune telle
perspective, ouverte semble-t-il pour des raisons déconomie. Cette
perspective risque en effet de priver les élèves dun enseignement qui
reste essentiel car il facilite la maîtrise de la langue française, et,
loin de contrarier lenseignement des langues vivantes, permet au
contraire de mieux appréhender lidentité européenne et les cultures
étrangères et favorise louverture aux disciplines scientifiques.
LAcadémie française sassocie à la pétition de nombreux organismes et
associations qui ont déjà pris position en faveur du maintien de
lenseignement du grec et du latin en France.
Steffen Obeling
Universität zu Köln
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