Laïcité
- French Connection, explaining what laïcité really means, and how it plays into education and life in France.
https://www.yout
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v=D0TZYUilj_U - NPR, “French Law Laïcité Restricts Muslim Religious Expression”
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/04/390757722/french-law-laicite-restricts-muslim-religious-expression - The Independent, wrote this article, “Why France thinks the burkini is an attack on secularism,” during the protests last year about the burkini ban. There is a problem in France with secularity and racism becoming intertwined.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/burkini-ban-france-cannes-nice-muslim-islam-beach-french-secularism-a7206971.html
Education
- Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong, “Élite Education”
- A breakdown of the of the French educational system.
http://www.expatica.com/fr/education/Education-in-France_101147.html - A blog post of an American woman’s experience in French education.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexandra-chevalier/what-france-can-learn-fro_b_1029279.html - The Guardian, “France to overhaul secularism teaching to help stop radicalism”: laïcité affects every sector of public life in France, and recently there have been problems with laicism in schools.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/france-overhaul-secularism-teaching-anti-radicalisation-paris-attacks- In the article, Vallaud-Belkacem says, “Laïcité is about saying we’re in a country where individuals can have whatever beliefs, or lack of beliefs, they choose and the public powers must be neutral towards them. That’s why in schools, we ask pupils not to wear distinctive religious symbols, because schools should be indifferent to beliefs and everyone must be treated equally.” How is religion addressed differently in American schools, or other countries’ education systems?