Returning to the Interest for Elite Formation at the Turn of XXth and XXIst Century: Recomposition of the Conceptions of Justice in Education
The article analyses the interest of the research in education regarding the education and training of the elites which has emerged since the end of the 20th century. Without ignoring the influence of Neoconservative thought in the Anglo-Saxon countries, it tries to situate the debate in a longer perspective, going back at least to the Enlightenment. The question of “How can schools ensure both the education of all and the promotion of the best”, constitutes a classic of the political philosophy of education. In order to reply to it, each period has devised compromises regarding the representation that society has of itself and dynamics that it wishes to promote. In particular, the text focuses on the manner in which tension is managed today in the perspective of “inclusive societies” and the decline of a definition of the elite linked to the cultural tradition in favour of a project management-based philosophy.