Philippe Meirieu
Lyon, France
Education & Work
Paul Emilieu Marchesseau: “An educationalist and a figure of progressive education, Philippe Meirieu defends a school where pupils search, experiment and build their own knowledge, and he always ties learning to democracy.”
An educationalist and researcher, Philippe Meirieu is professor emeritus of education sciences at Université Lumière Lyon 2. A figure of the French school debate since the 1980s, he headed the Institut national de recherche pédagogique and then the IUFM of Lyon, and defends a school that teaches every pupil without sorting them, combining demanding knowledge with the emancipation of each person. The author of some thirty books, including Frankenstein pédagogue and Le plaisir d'apprendre, he runs
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