Edmond Demolins
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Edmond Demolins was a French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 pedagogue.

Life and work

Demolins was a student of Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play , was a French engineer, sociologist, and economist.-Life:...

. He was the director of the journal La Science Sociale. Inspired by the experiences of the Abbotsholme School and the Bedales School
Bedales School
Bedales School is a co-educational independent school situated in Hampshire, in the south east of England. Founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventional Victorian schools, today the school is one of the most expensive in the UK, charging £9,985 per term for a...

, he founded the École des Roches (pioneer of Active learning
Active learning
Active learning is an umbrella term that refers to several models of instruction that focus the responsibility of learning, on learners. Bonwell and Eison popularized this approach to instruction . This "buzz word" of the 1980s became their 1990s report to the Association for the Study of Higher...

).

His most known works are L’Éducation nouvelle: L’École des Roches and À quoi tient la supériorité des Anglo-Saxons? (1897). In his work Les grandes routes des peuples, essai de géographie sociale : comment la route crée le type social, he defends racist theories
Racism
Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...

.

Publications

  • À quoi tient la supériorité des Anglo-Saxons? Paris, 1897 (University of Michigan Library
    University of Michigan Library
    The University of Michigan University Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of the largest university library systems in the United States. The system, consisting of 19 separate libraries in 11 buildings, altogether holds over 9.55 million volumes, with the collection growing at the rate of...

    , 1898 )
  • L’Éducation nouvelle: L’École des Roches. (University of Michigan Library, 1898 )
  • Les grandes routes des peuples, essai de géographie sociale: Comment la route crée le type social. Paris, Firmin Didot
    Firmin Didot
    Firmin Didot was a French printer, engraver, and type founder. He invented the word "stereotype", which in printing refers to the metal printing plate created for the actual printing of pages , and used the process extensively, revolutionizing the book trade by his cheap editions...

     & cie, 1901. (Volume 1 also at Nabu Press, 2010 ISBN 978-1173172398)

Weblinks


Further reading

  • Aires Antunes Diniz. A Escola Nova de Edmond Demolins segundo Sílvio Romero
    Sílvio Romero
    Sílvio Vasconcelos da Silveira Ramos Romero was a Brazilian "Condorist" poet, essayist, literary critic, professor and journalist....

    . pdf in Portuguese
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