League teaching

Topicality

Today, the League of Teaching is the first French associative coordination with nearly 2.000.000 to indirect members, via its departmental structures, generally named Fédération of Laic (FOL), or specialized, in particular sporting Works (USEP, UFOLEP) or its network of vacation centres, Vacances for all.

The League of Teaching is organizing Living room of Education, and operations " About fifteen the School publique" , " Tomorrow in France" , it is partner of " To see and Make Lire" , the association of Alexandre Jardin which it animates.

It is member founder of the Cidem (Good citizenship and democracy), of Anacej (National association of the councils of children and young people), of the Domestic network of the Juniors Associations, association coed Animafac and is member of the CPCA (Permanent Coordination of associative Coordinations).

The League Teaching is characterized in particular by its positions engaged in the complementary civil dialog and Secularity, curricular areas.

Jean-Marc Roirant , born in 1952, is general secretary of the confederation since 1993, after having directed the Departmental federation of Charente-Maritime of 1983 to 1993. He is also president of the federation of Paris since 1998. In addition, it chairs Cidem, as well as the European platform " Education and training throughout the vie" (EUCIS-LLL) in the European Parliament. Moreover, it sits at the Economic and Social Council where it was elected into 2004 president of the group of associations.

Pierre Tournemire , born in 1948, assistant general secretary of the movement since 1992, is the author of several publications, in particular on the laic questions. In 2003, it had expressed the dissension of the League with a new law on secularity at the time of the polemic on the veil at the school.

History

The movement created in 1866 by Jean Macé inspired the laws on the school " free, obligatory and laïque" at the end of the XIXe century.

“What a professor of young ladies could do” With the revolution of 1848, the vote for all is instituted. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is elected President of the Republic. However, after the coup d'etat of the December 2nd, 1851, it is clear that the beautiful democratic projection made the play of the dictator. A republican journalist, Jean Macé, convinced of the need for informing the men so that they can be responsible citizens, estimates that “Before instituting the vote for all, it would have taken thirty years of obligatory education…”. He is constrained with the exile in Alsace where he creates in 1863 the Company of the popular libraries of Haut-Rhin, initiative which S `extends quickly to whole France. The following year, with Jules Verne, it founds a newspaper “the Store of education and recreation” to associate education and entertainment, before launching a call “to the gathering of all those which wish to contribute to the development of the instruction in their country”. November 15th, 1866, Jean Macé announces officially the birth of the French League of teaching.

“For a state education, obligatory, free and laic”

The idea of a petition for a state education, free, obligatory and laic is done day and with the assistance of the liberal press, she is a very great success. The “national movement of the penny against ignorance” launched in September 1871 makes it possible to collect in fifteen months more than 1.300.000 of signatures given to the National Assembly. In November 1872, a new campaign is launched near the town councilors on the question of the Laïcité, i.e. of “the neutrality of the public school subsidized by the State or the commune”.

“For the fatherland, by the book and the sword” Vis-a-vis “the moral order” imposed in 1873 by the government of the Duke Albert de Broglie, the League approaches the army by the means of the regimental libraries. “For the fatherland, by the book and the sword” is then its currency.

“The grateful Republic” The Republican parties are with the government. For the members of a league, the time of the victory came. Jules Ferry is Minister for the state education and the Art schools, and under the influence of other members of a league, Ferdinand Buisson, Paul Bert, Rene Goblet, the Parliament will vote the school laws: exemption from payment of primary school education on June 16th, 1881, obligation and secularity on March 28th, 1882. Dissolved under the mode of Mac-Mahon, the Circles of the League reappear in the form of republican Sociétés of instruction and the Parisian Circle is recognized of public utility the congress convened for this purpose is held the 18, April 19th, 20th and th 1881 in the buildings of the Great East of France in order to give to the League its federal form. April 21st, to Trocadéro, the League is devoted “republican organization” by Leon Gambetta.

“Laic works or “the Republic in action” So in 1886, more of the third of the deputies and the senators are members of the League, the school laws are not always respected.

“Against the monks members of a league and the monks of businesses”

Under the presidency of Middle-class Leon, the League invites with the development of works post and extra-curricular in order to establish in any man “the solids principles essential to the citizens of a democracy”. Supported by the public authorities, patronages, friendly former students, mutual insurance companies, co-operatives are born on all the territory and are a great success which inspires with the government the Loi of 1901 on associations.

A truce at the time of “the Great War” The League joined " the Union sacrée" , and Leon Robelin, his general secretary, invites all the adherent companies to help national defense.

“1925, Second birth. ” The shortly after the war, the League is very weakened. Many militants died in the trenches and its militancy is deteriorated by “the Sacred union”. Its congresses are deserted whereas, in certain departments, gathered local associations of federations want to create a National confederation of laic works. At the time of the congress which these federations hold in Saint-Etienne at the beginning of 1925, thanks to Joseph Brénier, the delegates of the League succeed in convincing the participants that this one with its glorious last has vocation to be this confederation. In December 1925, during a “constituent assembly of the regenerated League”, it modifies its structures, is decentralized and become the “General confederation of laic works school, continuation, of education and social solidarity” which will be recognized of public utility by the decree of May 31st, 1930. With the concern of putting art, the techniques, the sporting disciplines with the service of all, it creates specialized sections, the U.F.O. The first, in 1928, UFOLEP (French Union of laic works of physical education) and its subsidiary company, USEP, (Sporting union of primary school education), created in 1939, allows hundreds of thousands of children the practice of the sport. In 1933, it is the choral society, the dance, the theater, the music the photograph, painting, the sculpture, the folklore which thanks to the U.F.O.L.E.A (French Union of laic works of artistic education) become accessible to the great number, as well as the cinema, thanks to the U.F.O.C.E.L (become later the U.F.O.L.E.I.S: French union of laic works for education by the image and the sound). In 1934, within the framework of the U.F.O.V.A.L, it attempts to develop the summer camps and the centers of teenagers. With the C.L.A.P (laic Center of popular aviation), she also worries about popular aviation: models reduced for the young people, sporting aviation for the adults.

“The Popular front or the second breath” " The largest cultural organization française" is dissolved in April 1942 under the Vichy government.

“Honor with the League of Teaching” After the war, the League is reconstituted little by little. The Général de Gaulle takes part in her Congress of recasting and declares: " Honor with the League of Enseignement". Later, the confedaration approves the “Langevin-Walloon plan” for a democratic reform of the education system. It takes part with the SNI (National union of the Teachers) in the creation of the laic Trust of action, chaired by Albert Bayet.

Lost battles The League, helped by the National federation of the parental advices of pupils of the public schools (FCPE), becomes truly an arm militant prolonging the national action of the Minister of education in order to ensure the radiation of the public school.

A new course. Form then the idea of further education takes. The congresses of Lille in 1959 and Toulouse in 1961 will set up the reforms of structures necessary to this change of orientation. In its general meeting of July 11th, 1967, just after the year of its centenary, a reform of the statutes is adopted. The League takes the name of “French League of teaching and further education, General confederation of laic works”.

Out of the school “ghetto” With the Laic National committee of Action, it endeavors to think a great public service of State education and recommends setting-up, on all the territory, of only one public school managed democratically by the representatives of the State, the teachers and the users.

For popular education.

The League seizes the city. In 1972, its activities are numerous and its publications contribute to its radiation. But it becomes aware of a primarily rural establishment per hour of a which gallops urbanization. In same time, the League which “in 1880 took part in the construction of the national unit by the eradication of the minority cultures is essential one century later a reflection on the place of the minorities… the management of pluralism in the contemporary companies, and conditions of a multiculturalism compatible with the Republic”. The militants of the League wonder about the direction of their interventions: don't they have for first effect to return the intolerable bearable one? After animated debates, at the time of its congress of Nimes in 1975, she declares herself interdependent of all those which fight for the construction of company of a socialist type.

Perverse effects of success The social evolutions in a country which returns in a durable crisis deeply will modify associative operation. Because of importance of waitings which they caused, associations will replace the voluntary ones by professionals, privileging the quality of the proposed service to militant dimension. With the favor of the municipal elections in 1977, many associate managers took elective functions but, far from supporting the autonomy of community life, they will develop the “municipalization” of many activities of leisures. The rationalization manager of the sector of sociocultural animation became the dominant concern, even if the League maintains in its speeches of congress a style protestor.

The great vain hope of 1981. The law Debré of December 31st, 1959 had set up a contractual system ensuring private establishments a public finance while recognizing their own character. In October 1977, the Loi Guermeur came to supplement it by soliciting the communes to finance the private school whose teachers will enjoy the same advantages of career as those of the public. The protests of the laic National committee of action are remained vain and the school dualism seems acquired, which very clearly expresses in 1984 the failure to integrate the private one in “a great unified and laic public service”. since 1982, in its general meeting of Montpellier, two “innovating” proposals very had been formulated. With the name “of a school of more opened further education”, it was a question of setting up a teaching of the history of the religions at the school. “To leave the critical spirit its numbness”. At the end of the years 1980, it endeavors to think its articulation of new reality resulting from the rush of the migratory currents and the advent in France in a multicultural company, carrying possible ghettos. Consequently, for it, “the will to live its differences together is at the base of any project inspired by secularity”. In January 1987 are created the Cercles Condorcet in order to “not undergo passively, but quite to the contrary to anticipate, include/understand and accompany the sometimes brutal changes which shake the company.”

The 87e congress (Toulouse 2 - July 8th, 1989) or effects of self-analysis. “After a secularity for the year 2000, let us build the League for the year 2000” In a double fidelity with Condorcet and Jean Jaurès, 85% of 600 delegated departmental federations of laic Works which represent them, ratify the resolutions which open the way of an new approach of secularity. Because “the Lent sermons are less dangerous than the Stock exchange prices”, because “new enemies seized the power in the company with in the forefront, the money and the image whose alliance replaced that of the Church and the Crown”, the League had to take a new way to safeguard the freedom of the citizen to be able to organize a pluriculturelle company. The resolution “secularity 2000” is essential with this advance towards what in 1990 will be named, not without making scandal, “secularity plural”.

“Effort of war of the League”

“The League must exceed the League…” To put the company moving for an interdependent future was the ambition posted as of the congress of Nantes in 1992. Three years later, to Clermont-Ferrand, the League aims at “taking again the first republican combat, that of justice”. “Neither political party, nor trade union, it intends to mobilize on the three building sites of solidarity, civic engagement and education, not only its members, but also all the actors of the local life engaged in a project of social transformation”. The League also maintains the partnerships with associations abroad, organizes exchanges of young people, supports development projects in Africa. Within SOLIDAR, European Federation of which it is member, it works with the inscription of a social dimension and civic in the construction of Europe. It courageously opens a building site of reflection on the school, by being made the engine “of the third educational space”,

“To bind narrowly thought and action”. the summer school of the UFOLEP/USEP, the university of the communication of Hourtin, the forum of the associative citizenship, the educational meetings of Rennes or the conferences on the citizenship, the access to the holidays, professional training…

The large building site of the means of a new ambition. “To federate differently” becomes the watchword. “Associated for what to make? ” is the question of congress for 2001. It is with the congress of Bordeaux in May 2001, year of the commemoration of the law allowing freedom essential to join,

During this time… the 92e congress which is held in Lyon from May 20th to 23rd 2004 made of “Europe that we want” his question of congress.

Let us imagine… “Let us imagine a world… imagine Europe… Imaginons a company… Let us imagine…” They are the words selected to call with the adhesion of all those which “would take the man like the single end” and which know like said it Castoriadis which it is of human world only by “imaginary institution of the company”.

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