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Lelievre, Claude – Journal of Education Policy, 2000
The 19th-century emergence of a centralized, state-controlled school system helped stabilize government and legitimize a state model during a revolutionary period in French history. The centralized model assisted national integration goals by fabricating a symbolic public space. This ambitious political construction may be coming apart. (Contains…
Descriptors: Centralization, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries