The Pedagogical Imagination by Leon Sachs - 9780803245051

The Pedagogical ImaginationThe Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film\nAuthor(s): Leon Sachs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803245051, 978-0803245051\nSynopsis\nFrench 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. \nIn 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 treatments of French educatio.