Edmond Demolins (1852-1907) was a French pedagogue .
Life and work
Edmond Demolins was born in 1852 in Marseille . He became a disciple of Pierre Guillaume Frederic le Play . He formed a small group of students Paul de Rousiers that puts in the Play ‘s salon every Monday in the 1870s. [1] The Program of Government and Social Organization Based on Comparative Observation of the Various Peoples (1881) was a collective work by members of the group with a preface by Le Play. [2] Demolines edited the bi-monthly Social Reform . [2] In 1885, three years after the death of Le Play, Henri de Tourville and Demolins split from the movement and founded a new journal,Social science . They brought with them a few members of Rousiers and Robert Pinot (1862-1926), future director of the Social Museum and Secretary-General of the Forges Committee . This small group is a true research team. [3]
Inspired by the experiences of the Abbotsholme School and the Bedales School , he founded the School of the Rocks ( fr ) (pioneer of Active learning ).
Edmond Demolins died in 1907 in Caen .
His most known works are The New Education: The School of Rocks and What is the Superiority of the Anglo-Saxons? (1897). In his work The great roads of peoples, social geography essay: how the road creates the social type , he defends racist theories . [4]
Publications
- History of France, from the earliest times to the present day according to sources and recent works T. 1 , Origins, Paris: Bookstore of Bibliographical Society, 1879
- History of France, from the earliest times to the present day, according to sources and recent works T. 2, The feudal monarchy , Paris: Bibliographical library, 1879
- History of France, from the earliest times to the present day according to sources and recent works T. 3, The modern monarchy , Paris: Bibliographical Library Bookshop, 1880
- History of France, from the earliest times to the present day according to sources and recent works T. 4, The Revolution and contemporary monarchies , 3rd ed., Paris: Bookstore of Bibliographical Society, 1880
- Play and its work of social reform , 2nd ed., Paris: offices of social reform, 1884
- How to raise and establish my children? , Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1893
- What is the superiority of the Anglo-Saxons? , 1897 ( available at Gallica ).
- New Education: The School of Rocks , 1998 ( available at Gallica ).
- The great roads of the peoples, social geography essay: How the road creates the social type. Paris, Firmin Didot & Co., 1901. (Volume 1 also at Nabu Press , 2010 ISBN 978-1-173-17239-8 )
- Is there an interest in seizing power? , Firmin-Didot, 1905, 338 p.
- The French of today – The social types of the Midi and the Center , Librairie de Paris / Firmin-Didot, nd
References
- Jump up^ Savoye 1988, p. 54.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Savoye 1988 , p. 55.
- Jump up^ Savoye 1988, p. 56.
- Jump up^ Taguieff 2001, pp. 76-77.