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The Digitization of School Through the Prism of Citizenship Year of publication: 2021 Author: Lionel Alvarez | Mathieu Payn Corporate author: Éthique en éducation et en formation Digital devices have colonized many facets of our daily lives, and compulsory schools are now appropriating this evolution. The announced learning goals are often associated with the notion of digital citizenship. At the same time, educational institutions are defining the digital learning environments that teachers and students must adopt. Positioning themselves in the digital humanities, the authors question the posted definitions of digital citizenship, confront them with the sui generis nature of the digital and its industry, and finally question the connection between these and the public school. Issues of citizen empowerment, autonomy, and governance serve the analysis and allow us to conclude that it is necessary to debate the pedagogical-digital contradictions. 
Making Democracy an Ethic and a Pedagogy Year of publication: 2017 Author: Christophe Point Corporate author: Éthique en éducation et en formation This article presents the argument that an ethics of democracy in the school requires an appropriate pedagogy. This pedagogy cannot be limited to theoretical content or to an assortment of civic actions because democracy is not composed either of a particular set of facts, concepts or dates, or of an undetermined social behaviour. According to the approach of John Dewey, who places inquiry at the center of his definition of democracy, we wish to demonstrate a double benefit from pragmatist thinking. For ethics, in defining democracy as a habit of collective thinking, we wish to construct values that can be shared by all participants in the school environment. For pedagogy, this habit of inquiry can lend itself to all subjects taught at school without limiting itself to a particular discipline. Finally, we will propose a modeling of this democratic education for a step-by-step didactic progression. 
Moral and Civic Teaching in French Schools, a Consistant Transversality? Year of publication: 2017 Author: Anne-Claire Husser Corporate author: Éthique en éducation et en formation This paper will examine the issues of the French « moral and civic education » syllabus, enforced in September 2015, and analyse the difficulties that hinder its implementation in schools. Considering the cross-sectionnal dimension of the learning goals outlined in this program, we will give special consideration to the way French teachers may fit to teaching approaches and methods developed within the framework of Belgian and Quebec didactic researches in a context where moral education is considered as a teaching specialty unlike France. 
Anti-racist, Inclusive and Human Rights Education in the Development of Professional Competencies for School Personnel and Student Capabilities Year of publication: 2017 Author: Maryse Potvin Corporate author: Éthique en éducation et en formation This article examines the differences and convergences that emerge from the major theoretical trends in the area of education for ethnocultural (inter/multicultural, anti-racist/critical, civic, inclusive) diversity regarding the professional skills school personnel must acquire to achieve the major objectives of equity, effectiveness of rights, harmonious living and the development of students’ capabilities. The article is based on a review of the national and international literature, which aimed to identify the skills (knowledge, expertise, soft skills) that are essential for knowing how to act in the context of diversity and that, according to theoreticians, should be developed in all teacher training programs. These issues are discussed from a crosscutting perspective rather than from a disciplinary angle related to the Quebec curriculum (ethics and religious culture, history and education for citizenship). The article begins by providing some background on these trends in order to identify their common objectives and convergence toward an integrated and inclusive global approach. It then examines two objectives supported by all theoreticians in terms of the core professional skills needed by school personnel for developing students’ capabilities: 1) taking into account the realities, needs and rights of students, particularly those in minority or vulnerable groups, and 2) preparing students to live together in a pluralistic and democratic society. As well, it identifies the key challenges involved in the consideration and implementation of these two goals. 
The Ideology of the Rights of Children and the Reality in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Are the Mobilizing Paradigms? Year of publication: 2017 Author: Étienne Kola Corporate author: Éthique en éducation et en formation Human rights are a heritage of humanity. The ideology that underpins it is based on a humanist presupposition that makes a constant imprescriptible human dignity. The rights of the child which are a specific application of the human rights are often massive violations that offend the common sense. The situation in sub-saharian Africa is still disturbing that poverty, armed conflict and certain socio-cultural heaviness are stumbling blocks to the effective enjoyment of rights by children. The consequences of the violations all azimuths of these rights are so heavy to amount to a human and social tragedy in this continent. Strategies for eradication of this phenomenon require activation of the legal mechanisms and operational law enforcement but also the integration of the humanistic, personalistic and Existentialist rationalities in the African educational systems. Ethical and humanistic thoughts could influence even the most rigid minds.