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10.4000/histoire-education.837

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10.4000/histoire-education.837

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Autonomy and personality of high schools: the 1902 administrative reform and its origins

Abstract

The 1902 Reform includes an administrative and financial section which aims at granting lycées more autonomy and specificity. These measures were a response to the diagnosis of the 1898-1899 parliamentary committee according to which headteachers were given insufficient power and teachers were poorly involved in the school -environment. This article is an attempt to assess if such a judgement corresponded to the real situation of the lycées in the 19th century : a contradiction between the necessary mobility of staff and the wish to settle locally, the progression of teacher representation, the evolution of the headteachers’room for manoeuver as regards recruitment, teaching organisation and budget control. It also reveals how important the decline of boarding-schools was in the crisis of secondary public schools and aims to show that the solutions opted for in 1902 did not mark a complete break with the past but rather derived from local boys secondary schools and girls secondary schools created in 1880.

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