Lesson

The Leçon is a term which revêt various significances in the field of the Enseignement.

Origins of the word

The term lesson is borrowed about 1135 from Latin lectionem : the concept of reading and the fact of reading are concomitant mot. Indeed, lesson then has the direction of “crowned text”: lectionem being the accusative of lectio , Lecture, it is logical that lesson means “text read” as of its origin. This original direction will perdurera until our days: the lesson of a text is, in Philologie, one of the versions of this text (in general to speak about the old texts: it will be said, for example, that the Song of Roland has several lessons ).

However, parallel to this direction, as of the 12th century the direction of “develops what a pupil must learn”, and, by Métonymie, “the teaching which exemption the main ”. Such a shift in meaning is not astonishing when it is considered that at that time the instruction of the children or young people were in general ensured by people of the Église.

Use of the word in the lesson primary education and secondary

The direction of lesson as “what the Master gives to learn” is largely spread in teaching as from the 19th century: essential and central term in the state education and obligatory, keystone of the State education, the lesson represented a long time for the schoolboys and their family this piece of knowing given each day by the schoolmaster, hope of a progress of the family in the social Hiérarchie. But metonymy of the lesson as “teaching of the Master” at that time makes it possible to federate under this same term the text studied (in French for example), the exercises on this text and all that relates to the activities which are bound to him, even activities of writing.

In fact, such an authority of the black Hussard a long time allowed a teaching divided into lessons, teaching partitioned, teaching which was based on a logic which was clean for him and not on the logic of training of the pupils. A Leçon of things was then exempted without relationship with the lesson of mathematics or French, although in the facts some Décloisonnement more or less were always practiced (but never in a really reflected and pushed way).

The lesson is thus one of the symbols of the authority of the schoolmaster of the middle of the 19th century until the years 1980, date where the logic of the decompartmentalization started to replace that of the lesson.

The term however in the direction of “text or synthesis to be learned”, on the one hand in more or less fixed expressions ( you remained learned your lessons? requires of their child who returns from the school the attentive parents), and in addition in the reality of the taught contents. Indeed, if the lesson were replaced by the meeting of decompartmentalized teaching, the purpose of the latter is often a unit of elements to know synthesized in a text: this synthesis will be the lesson to be learned for the following day, for example. The field Sémantique of this word was thus restricted and the term lost most of its Symbolique.

The lesson , a test of aggregation

The lesson is also the name of an oral test of the aggregations of modern and traditional Letters, Mathématiques, Philosophie, Physics-Chemistry,…

History of the word

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Current tests

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Illustrated direction (morality or profit)

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See also:

Simple: Lesson

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