On October 23, 2019, Professor Régis Malet from the School of Education, University of Bordeaux, France delivered a lecture entitled “The Educational System and Cultivation of Teachers in France: Collective Narratives, Citizen Identity and Contemporary Focus” for IICE’s International Education Podium. The lecture was chaired by IICE Lecturer Dr. ZHANG Mengqi and attended by faculty members and graduate students from the IICE.

Prof. Malet began his lecture by illustrating the backgrounds of primary education and secondary education in France as well as the backgrounds of teacher cultivation at different educational levels. Then Prof. Malet elaborated upon the process of secularization, the systematic centralism in the educational sector and the democratization of educational reform in France. Finally, Prof. Malet analyzed the challenges of educational reform and teacher cultivation France is facing.

After the lecture, IICE Prof. LIU Baocun and Prof. Malet discussed issues of collaboration between IICE and School of Education, University of Bordeaux.

Professor Régis Malet is a full professor of Comparative Education in the University of Bordeaux, Graduate School of Education. He has been nominated in 2018 at the Institut Universitaire de France. Previously, he was the director of the Faculty of Education in the University Charles de Gaulle of Lille. He has also been the President of the French-speaking Society of Comparative Education (AFEC) and the Editor of the international research journal "Éducation Comparée" for one decade. His fields of research include comparative education, education policy analysis, teachers’ education and youth identity & citizenship, domains in which he has an extensive publication record.