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Emeline Roy; Matt McLain – Curriculum Journal, 2025
Applied arts and artistic cultures are taught in vocational high schools, in France, with the aim of developing civic and social skills in students, which are cross-cutting or generic. To achieve this, this design education revolves around the creation and conception of artefacts. This article explores epistemological issues relating to the role…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education Schools, High Schools, Intellectual Disciplines
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Brion, Katherine – History of Education, 2022
The "Belle Époque" quest for a modern beauty (an 'art nouveau') extended into France's system of free primary schooling, established in the 1880s by the Third Republic to educate the popular masses. Design reformers' belief in the underlying unity of the fine and applied arts, and their growing emphasis on the importance of individual…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, Design, Fine Arts