Question 7043 — secondary education

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Mrs. Christine Hennion questions the Minister of National Education on the reform of the general and technological baccalaureate, and more particularly on the place and future of the economic and social sciences (SES) discipline in it. The reform of the general and technological baccalaureate, unveiled on February 14, 2018, aims to modernize the baccalaureate and strengthen guidance in higher education, allowing high school students to gradually specialize from the second cycle. Concerning the general course, it eliminates the three sectors: literary (L), scientific (S) and economic and social (ES). Instead of these three traditional courses, a common core is preferred, around which the student will be free to attach three specializations. This common core is made up of basic and elementary lessons, the knowledge and practice of which is considered essential. : French, philosophy, history-geography, two modern languages ​​and finally sport. The SES discipline is, however, not included in this same base of fundamental teaching. SES teaching was introduced at the same time as the B sector and the former ES sector by the Fouchet plan of 1966. For more than fifty years, it has stimulated an understanding as well as a questioning of the contemporary world, through the study of three areas humanities: economic sciences, sociology as well as political sciences. Also, the introduction of this discipline went hand in hand with the massification of schooling in the second cycle and its democratization. Even today, a third of baccalaureate graduates pursuing the ES series have varied social origins and take on diverse paths with an undeniable success rate. In this context, she questions the place that should be given to the SES discipline in the proposed reform and questions its inclusion in the common core. She therefore questions him about the measures that the State is considering in order to promote the teaching of this essential discipline, a key to understanding today's world.

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