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Progress and education: our first Zoom webinar.

We are delighted to announce that the session on Progress and education, which had been reported from March 2020 because of COVID-19 restrictions, was held with great success on Monday 12 October, (16.30 – 18.30) via videoconference. 

Sandrine Parageau (Université Paris-Nanterre, junior IUF member), « Avancement du savoir et réforme pédagogique en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle ».

Pierre Lurbe (Sorbonne Université),  « ‘Education […] is exceedingly incompetent to the great business of reforming mankind’: le pessimisme éducatif de William Godwin ».

Discutant : Jean Viviès

Our warmest thanks to our speakers for experimenting with this new format.  


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Laurence Lux-Sterritt (November 24, 2020). Progress and education: our first Zoom webinar. Britaix 17-18. Retrieved May 9, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/m57m


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