• On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was beheaded after a hostile campaign on social networks accusing him of having presented caricatures of Muhammad.

  • To help teachers and "that there is a before and an after", teachers mainly from the Aix-Marseille academy have designed a practical manual made up of cards that can guide the discussions.

  • This book was presented on Monday, when a Samuel-Paty room was inaugurated at the Aix-Marseille rectorate.

"Since I have been rector, I have not counted the minutes of silence in this garden", regrets Bernard Beigner, who arrived in 2014 at the head of the Aix-Marseille academy.

This Monday morning, he has just inaugurated the Samuel Paty room, a room that overlooks this garden.

Charlie, November 13, assassination of Samuel Paty… So many bloody events where "barbarism" arose, testing the "principles of National Education which is the reign of humanity and civilization", stated the rector in his speech.

Forty-eight practical sheets produced by 26 authors

But the inauguration of a room in memory of the history and geography teacher, beheaded on October 16, 2020, was not the only news of this morning. Teachers came to present a collective practical manual, "homage to Samuel Paty", intended for teachers, "to teach through respect and freedom of expression", explained Rodrigue Coutouly, editorial coordinator of this book, entitled

Living Free !

, published by

Hors Pistes

, based in Aix-en-Provence. Composed of 48 practical sheets produced by 26 authors, mainly teachers from the Aix-Marseille academy, this manual "comes from experience in the field, in this so diverse academy", greeted Bernard Beigner. The department has already ordered 1,500 copies for its 190 colleges. Other academies and a hundred municipalities have already shown interest and the book will also be accessible to individuals.

The purpose of this manual is to provide teachers with keys and food for thought in order to address in class subjects such as "can we represent the divine?"

"" Distinguish between beliefs and knowledge "," react to homophobia "or" communicate after an attack ".

Subjects on which teachers are poorly trained, although a working group made up of teachers was recently created and will meet in Paris soon.

"We can talk about anything, but not just any old way"

To accompany this ceremony, eight students, who came equally from public and private religious education (Catholic, Jewish and Muslim), read various texts.

"The approach of this book is first of all to make the student grow," said Eric Rusterholtz, the academy's secular referent.

With the certainty that "we can talk about everything, but not just any old way" and that for that you need guides.

This book is one of them.

So that there really is "a before and an after Samuel Paty", as Bernard Baigner, the rector of the academy, called it.

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