Etiket: Baillargeons
Normand Baillargeon’s column: Is it the end of the world, sir?
By watching this short and heartbreaking video showing high school students in Ukraine preparing for a bombardment (bit.ly/3HHPNB6), I thought of Michael Shermer, the eminent skeptic. Indeed, this one recently…
Normand Baillargeon’s chronicle: Sensitive reading and school
A subject has caused a lot of talk this week: the appearance in our country of what is called “sensitive reading”. It consists in asking people specialized in this task…
Normand Baillargeon’s chronicle: Thinking secularism with Guy Rocher
The long-awaited second and last volume of the magnificent biography of Guy Rocher by Pierre Duchesne was published a few months ago. People working in education or interested in it—which…
Normand Baillargeon’s column: Preparing for what’s to come
We have just announced a deconfinement plan and, if a new variant (or something else…) does not come to confuse the issue, we will (perhaps…) soon see a (almost…) return…
Normand Baillargeon’s column: Extending Bill 101 to CEGEPs
We announced this week what seems to me to be great and important news in education: the government will finally not go ahead with the Dawson College expansion project. It…
Normand Baillargeon’s chronicle: Dangerous enemies of knowledge
The tragic times we are going through remind us of the crucial importance of science (where would we be without vaccines…), but also how fragile and constantly threatened this conquest…
Normand Baillargeon’s column: Citizenship in times of pandemic
We are September 4, 1999, in Alma, in a class of 5and secondary. — Welcome to this citizenship education course, given for the very first time this year. You will…