{"id":6530,"date":"2025-04-29T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/event\/philo-aux-bains-school-adrift-with-philippe-favre\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T17:31:14","slug":"philo-aux-bains-school-adrift-with-philippe-favre","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/event\/philo-aux-bains-school-adrift-with-philippe-favre\/","title":{"rendered":"Philo aux Bains: School adrift? with Philippe Favre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"240\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">Schools in French-speaking Switzerland are going through a period of profound change:<\/span> <span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">a growing number of pupils are completing their schooling without mastering fundamental knowledge,<\/span> <span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">At the same time, more and more children are dropping out of school.<\/span> <span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">At the same time, more and more children in Switzerland are dropping out of school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"240\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">Why do so many students struggle to acquire basic skills? <\/span><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">Why are teachers increasingly demotivated? <\/span><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">Are educational decision-makers too far removed from the realities on the ground? <\/span><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">What concrete solutions can be envisaged to rectify the situation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"587\" data-end=\"792\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">Philippe Favre, a historian and teacher since 1981, addresses these issues in his essay  <em>School adrift? Focus on solutions <\/em>.<\/span> <span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">Drawing on his 42 years of experience in public education and his role as a trainer for the introduction of information and communication technologies in Valais classrooms,<\/span> <span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">he proposes some twenty concrete solutions to reconnect with excellence by reappropriating pedagogical engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"919\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">We invite you to a meeting with Philippe Favre to discuss the current challenges facing our education system and his suggestions for improvement.<\/span> <span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">Parents, teachers, decision-makers and committed citizens are invited to take part in this constructive dialogue aimed at giving schools the means to fulfill their educational mission, which is essential to the proper functioning of our democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"921\" data-end=\"1046\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">The caf\u00e9-philo will take place at the Bains des P\u00e2quis, on the pier, and will be broadcast live on Facebook and streamed on YouTube.<\/span> <span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem]\">Free admission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools in French-speaking Switzerland are going through a period of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6381,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[82],"class_list":["post-6530","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-culture-en","cat_culture-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6754,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6530\/revisions\/6754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}