Abstract
The present article proposes a reflection on the ways in which the international circulation of pedagogical ideas structured the elaboration of the French school system at the end of the 19th Century. Although often associated with the process of nationalizing society, the school of the Third Republic was actually constructed according to foreign models and examples. The article starts by looking at the different vectors that, in France, enabled producing specific knowledge based on the European educational systems. Next the role of the French reformers is analyzed, within the international movement of public education reform, especially in the context of congresses of education, in the school sections of universal exhibitions and of the first worldwide networks created at the turn of the century. Finally, it discusses the different reappropriations of the foreign models in France, especially when the primary and secondary education reforms began. Showing the different strategies of scales that operate between the national and international dimensions, it is intended to supply clues about the research to rethink the history of the republican school.
Key-words:
France; republican school; internationalization; circulation of discourses