The Reality of Human Rights Education within the French School System. From paradoxical objectives to ways of implementation
Résumé
This paper examines and puts forward for discussion the French approach to Human Rights Education (HRE). The intellectual conception is based on a broad humanist philosophy and intends to respect the European fundamental guidelines. But beyond ambitious objectives, the reality is quite different and HRE is somewhat reduced to a theoretical and utilitarian Citizenship dimension. Its actual implementation seems rather to consist in a series of tools enabling a struggle against school violence.