Abstract

ROBERT, André. Gaullism and human capital: a new school paradigm. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2008, n.12, pp.19-40. ISSN 1645-7250.

Reformer of institutions, founder of the 5th Republic (1958), the general de Gaulle was also the reformer of the French educational system, at a moment when all the previous attempts of reforms since 1945 had failed. He tried to impose new one paradigm centred on principles of ‘massification’ / selection, and mainly articulated -although in a rather implicit way -in the economic theory of Human Capital, widely spread at the international level. The article examines the school policy organized on this base (with various ministers and several influential advisers) during ten years (1958-1968). If this policy succeeds in the democratization of the selection, what constitutes an unmistakable progress in terms of justice and initial equality, it fails largely in the democratization of the success at school (chances of access of the most discriminated pupils to the most prestigious sectors).

Keywords : de Gaulle; educational system; Human Capital; democratization; the selection.

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