A film as a source for the history of adult education
Résumé
The film, a documentary entitled “Retour à l'école ?” (Return to school?), shot in France in 1966 is built on interviews of participants in evening classes. They were asked to express the way how they lived this experience as adult learners. Shot in different locations, this film lets people speak of their motivations, their plans, and also their difficulties in daily life. But what is very interesting is the place accorded to their wives. Actually, what is noticeable is that all adult learners interviewed are men. Three of them accepted to be filmed at home with their wives and they described their educational career as a family shared project. The core question will be then analysed as a problematic couple's relationship to knowledge as the result of a learning activity. This paper tends to demonstrate how this question, that may appear rather strange today, is historically significant and relevant to adult educator's training which rose and developed in the second part of the sixties.
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