OECD, the skills record, 1984 If you are a teacher, what is more to college, you hardly escaped the slide from the CNRBE (National Committee Removing the Base Students):
Speech denounced at least two facts in the implementation of the common core of skills:
1. a generalized FILING students through the booklet staff skills (LPC) which will monitor the students for life, as indelible a mark of success or failure in school.
2. will provide masses of workers helpful to employers.
Who is behind this monstrous project? Europe, OECD, and used their valet, the "French state" (reference Petain), which Parliament adopted the law
policy and program for the future of the school in 2005 , with LPC (Booklet Staff Skills) is the tool of evaluation, including the tier 2 occurs at the end of primary level and 3 at the end of college.
How not to be outraged by the facts raised by the CNRBE? The arguments and demonstrations are relentless ... but misleading.
The return of the booklet worker!
That alone with reference to the authoritarian regimes of Napoleon who introduced the book in France (remember the ersatz Soviet and Chinese ...). May be objected that their targets (working class monitor, assess skills), their contents and their uses are as dissimilar as their respective eras?
One might also question elsewhere on the weight of the working class today in a post-industrial society. On the one hand neo-liberalism deindustrialized France, the other prepares the future working classes docile and helpful ... for what jobs?
The skills issue
designers of skills record, "worse than the manual worker," are named: The OECD with the European Commission. In slide 4, we read:
"The European Commission has made a list of eight key competences, supposed to ensure adaptability, flexibility and
mobility future workers." Yet
on Commission website, here is what we read: "The European framework of key competencies for education and lifelong Life, published at the end of 2006, identifies and defines the key competences that every person needs to obtain employment and achieve personal satisfaction, social inclusion and active citizenship in today's world based on knowledge. "Slideshow speaks of" knowledge economy "when the European Commission refers to" knowledge society ". The presentation skills by CNRBE is an interpretation of the base. Here is the ack of c
Reference targeting key skills enacted by the Commission. pdf This is a rather long, but the introduction gives immediately to dispel any misunderstanding on a utilitarian view of the base only as personal fulfillment and the ability to integrate into society are placed on the same plane as access to the world of work.
In the anti-base arguments, we systematically find these assertions OECD Anti-and anti-Commission. I refer relate to the use of thought made by the OECD polemicists, reading a blog entry
Luke Cédelle .
Threat to civil liberties
FILING Faced with the great general who is preparing, "the CNIL has not protected citizens. "Moreover," Is not exceeded? "We remember the indignation raised by the introduction of" high base ", originally the creation of CNRBE. The battle continues today with the LPC. We understand better why they believe the CNIL is exceeded by visiting the website of the CNIL
, which clarified its position in September 2010 on "Base students' . What do we read?
" We often hear the" Base student "would be a national register of students in schools and kindergartens. This is not the case: "Base student" is a computer architecture developed by the Ministry of Education organized at three levels:
- a first file at school,
- a second level of the Education Inspectorate, the
- third, only statistical, then anonymously at the Ministry of Education.
Each school principal is managing a file whose characteristics were defined by the department. The director of the school that collects information during the registration of the child. "
But still:
" List of data stored in the application is limited to identification data students, their guardians and other persons to contact in an emergency or authorized to take charge of the student leaving the school. It also includes information relating to the education of students (registration dates, Admission and radiation, class, level cycle) and extracurricular activities (childcare, supervised study, restaurant and school transport).
Contrary to what is sometimes asserted, the "Base student" no longer has any information on nationality, date of arrival in France of the student and the language spoken at home.
Similarly, it contains no medical information type (such as psychological or psychiatric) or on the origin ethnic pupils.
Finally, the student's grades are not recorded. "
It is also clear that parents have a right of access to information and a right of opposition which has been granted by the State Council, an organ, as its name indicates, in the State. Contradictory? The protection of individual freedoms would also threatened that?
If it is necessary to clarify risks of current computer use and the threats they pose to civil liberties, why not simply ask the question and to state a question? "We are concerned in the implementation of the libretto of skills, the threat to individual liberties and the potential use of information collected on the school career of students, and we ask for solid guarantees the ministry, in reference with the CNIL and the Conseil d'Etat. "
No, here is an ideological project shadow (the manual worker) who is targeted by a libertarian ideology. The battle is broader, more global, it is as much political and ideological denounced neoliberalism.
Implemented fight against school failure, the extent (almost 150,000 young people every year out of school without qualifications) should be the real scandal, and his book stand are an important tool of change. This change is questionable: in the current framework for drastic reductions in posts, calmly consider how a paradigm shift in teaching, while the tasks of teachers continue to pile up? For many politicians and education for many teachers, this change is necessary and even urgent to college (for reasons and with the ideas developed on this blog and elsewhere).
Prime contradiction: the ambition of the base . It is not to differentiate levels of achievement among students, and thus create the sort (it, the notes are already doing very well) that ensure a minimum level of achievement for all the students. Unlike the current report cards that collect averages, assessments, and serve to guide the students. The common core will have little value in distinguishing students, his ambition was to "raise the floor".
Second contradiction: the behavioral dimension . "The booklet contains information skills of academic, social and behavioral." Skills are used to train workers flexible and docile, to condition students to the world of work. This idea holds only in the speeches of the opponents base. Pedagogy competency is not a renunciation of knowledge, on the contrary, neither a machine to manufacture consent. Teachers who use the competency-based approach has a constant: to train students to develop independence and critical thinking. It should be here strongly distinguish the assessment skills to fashion the base (a booklet of certification) in effect binary irrelevant in fine work by expertise, which raises the fundamental question: how to ensure that students master Such skill and knowledge, how to advance?
skills 6 and 7 indeed include some items based on the student's behavior, very few when compared to the whole, and far less dangerous than the grade school life or that the assessments of behavior newsletters, matching the various grades of punishment. In any case, they say much less than current school records on their failures.
Third contradiction: the question of orientation . Page 8: "every child and young person will control oriented, automatically sorted according to criteria opaque and uncontrollable"
Taken out of context, only the prospective employee in this sentence allows us to distinguish the current situation ! Let us look at what emerges from the class council, where such students could not pass on second with less than 8 average in maths or French where such student is good because he is 14, middle because he was 10 (the average it will be understood) and without discussion of teachers' lounge to see if "standards" is more or less than "correct level" in a general appreciation!
Regarding the training of students, a little digging on the site OECD, and in the spirit of a competitive Europe in a globalized economy, it soon becomes apparent that there is indeed a great need of manpower ... strong and skilled!
Moreover, if the state collects data on the skills, she will sell to companies to learn more about his future employee? Is everything already written? In a digital society it is more likely that employers will find more personal information on social networks like Facebook or Linked-In (where users control their curriculum, the CV is not dead, it is enriched with digital) that in a database managed by a state, and although it may be read on this show, subject to the law. If this is the light "Base students," we measure the difference between fictional discourse and the status of the slide show presented by the CNIL.
The CNRBE anticipates an Orwellian world, scary indeed using its vocabulary of words and images to the world of the concentration (bar code, traceability, regimental ...), stirring fears means of fallacious arguments, denying the problems of today's schools, using Amalgam repeated, where digital is the instrument of evil, attacking a enemy who were told that it does not say, reducing the scope of relevant issues yet on the use of personal data to a caricature of libertarian discourse.
