Integration of ESD in French Primary Schools: For What Purpose, with What Form of Integration and with What Content?

Autor/in	Charif, Smail
Titel	Integration of ESD in French Primary Schools: For What Purpose, with What Form of Integration and with What Content?
Quelle	In: Environmental Education Research, 29 (2023) 8, S.1072-1087 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Charif, Smail)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-4622
DOI	10.1080/13504622.2022.2104813
Schlagwörter	Elementary School Students; Sustainable Development; Environmental Education; Case Studies; Educational Policy; Discourse Analysis; Interdisciplinary Approach; Foreign Countries; Administrator Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Policy Analysis; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Diskursanalyse; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Ausland; Lehrerverhalten; Politikfeldanalyse; Frankreich
Abstract	This article examines the integration of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the French educational system and more especially in primary schooling. The research question concerns the purposes, the form of integration and the definition of the content of ESD. To answer these questions, I present and analyse the main features of these three questions as presented in the official texts of the Ministry of Education. I also draw on a case study focusing on the integration of ESD at primary level. Thirty-four semi-directive interviews were carried out with local ESD actors working in two communes in southern France. In this study, the interviews were subjected to thematic analysis using NVivo 12 software. The results show that, both in the official texts and in the discourse of the interviewees, the purposes of ESD tend to be civic and emancipatory. Furthermore, while the choice of content is left to the actors on the ground, the incoherence and lack of clarity of the official texts complicates their task. They thus have difficulty in setting ESD projects within an interdisciplinary approach. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01