{"id":297,"date":"2026-02-03T17:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/?page_id=297"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:57:47","slug":"publications-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/en\/publications-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Education matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Lecture for Erasmus Medal 2005,<\/strong> Academia Europeae: Pierre L\u00e9na, From science to education: the need for a revolution<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Institut de France, formal Session on Education under the Coupole,<\/strong>\u00a028 Octobre 2008<\/strong>. Pierre L\u00e9na, La science pour tous : illusion ou n\u00e9cessit\u00e9.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

School children and science<\/strong>, in France (1995-2026)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Under the impetus of Georges Charpak, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (1992), together with Yves Qu\u00e9r\u00e9, myself, and with the support of the French Academy of Sciences, La main \u00e0 la p\u00e2te<\/em> was created in 1995 to revive\u2014albeit in a transformed way\u2014the traditional \u201clesson of things\u201d in all primary schools across France. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our goal was to respond to and stimulate children\u2019s curiosity about natural phenomena, guiding them through the first steps taken by any researcher in science: observing, questioning, experimenting, reflecting, sharing, and expressing themselves with precision. Tested in 344 classrooms, the initiative grew, bringing together primary school teachers who often discovered that science is not inaccessible\u2014neither for them nor for their students\u2014and who found enjoyment in exploring it through inquiry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011, the Foundation La main \u00e0 la p\u00e2te <\/em><\/a>was established through the \u201cInvestments for the Future\u201d public program with the backing of Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France. With such continuous effort until 2026, natural sciences\u2014closely linked with mathematics and the practice of the French language\u2014are present, at least in some classrooms, from kindergarten through to the final year of primary school (CM2, i.e. Grade 5).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work in progress for this page Lecture for Erasmus Medal 2005, Academia Europeae: Pierre L\u00e9na, From science to education: the need for a revolution. Institut de France, formal Session on Education under the Coupole,\u00a028 Octobre 2008. Pierre L\u00e9na, La science … Continuer la lecture →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-297","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}