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The ChorusLes Choristes
Dina Au, Cedric Cheng, Johnson Chu, Doris Chung, Edmond Kar, Ken Lau, Charisse Mok,
Ahmood Tsang
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Background
Financially
Psychologically
Post WWI
IFranceStr
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The School: Bottom of the PondFond de L’Etang
Underprivileged
Orphans
Juvenile Delinquencies
Aged ~8 - 16
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Students
Pierre Morhange/pi:'ɛʀ 'mɔ:ʀɔ:ʒ/
Pépinot/'peɪpɪnɒ/
Protagonist Single-parent Angel face;
Devil mind
Parents died in WWII
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Mondain /mɔ̃'dɑ̃/• Wrecker
Corbin /'kɔ:ʀbɑ̃/• Kind-hearted
score stand
Students
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Teachers & Staff
Mr Clément Mathieu
/'kleɪmɔ̃ mɑ'tjœ/
Principal Rachin/'ʀæʃɑ̃/
Protagonist Music teacher
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Uncle La Père Maxence/lɑ pɛʀ mæ'kʃɔ̃s/• Kind-hearted Janitor
Mr Chabert /'ʃɑbɛʀ/• Patriotic PE teacher
Mr Langlois /lɔ̃'glwɑ/
• Piano-playing mathsteacher
Teachers & Staff
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Principal Rachin
Principal @ Fond de L’Etang
“Action – Reaction”
A real educator?
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Activity 1
Ahmood Principal Rachin Doris Miss Teacher Nice Mathieu Johnson Mr Teacher Bad Cop Chabert
writes something bad about the headmaster Rachin on the white board
When Rachin comes into the classroom….
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How do you feel when Rachin asks Mathieu to pick someone as scapegoat and punish the whole class?
Activity 1
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Activity 1
Discuss with your groupmates, what philosophical perspectives are observed?
Hints :try to think of some Chinese philosophical perspectives
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Rachin – A Legalist?
Legalism
法家Han Fei Zi 韓非子
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Believes that human are inherently bad
Merely education is not adequate to rectify the bad nature of human
Clear rules/laws have to be set on people have to obey the rules/laws in order to maintain a stable society
People have to obey what the head says
Rachin & Legalism Legalism
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Legalism in the movie Rachin
Emphasize strict obedience the rules
Students must obey and follow the rules
Always requires students to keep silent
‘action-reaction’
punishment, rather than teaching or inspiring students, is a better way to make students obey the rules
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Rotten Idealist
Desperate Realist
Principal Rachin’s Educational Philosophy?
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Profit
Fame
Rachin’s Educational Philosophy?
Selfish
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~ A Realist
Reasoning
Corporal punishme
nt
Discipline
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Mr Clément Mathieu
Employed as school teacher
Was a composer, but didn’t went very successful
Inventory teacher? A teacher of love?
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Activity 2
Uncle Maxence was seriously hurt by Le Querrec
If you were Mathieu, what would you do? Would you punish Le Querrec and take him to the principal?
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Activity 2
Discuss with your groupmates, what philosophical perspective is evident?
Hints : try to think from the Chinese philosophical perspective
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Mathieu
great believer of student's potential promote personal expression thrive hard to arrange environment that
encourages them to find areas of interest
Example: setting up of a choir → stimulates children to
use their potentiality
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Idealists
Idealists’ Perspective:
believes developing perspective only be attained in :
a deliberate, slow, gradual, maturing process.
→ simply use humanistic, warm, sensitive approach as a wake-up call to their inner heart.
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Both Dewey & Mathieu believe : → music, voices as a tool can transcend
minds. the role of a teacher (Dewey) : → to orient learners toward experiences that
lead to growth → to provide continuity to those experiences.
Pragmatist
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Postmodernist
raise the kids that is underrepresented, marginalized.
this school seemed to be the last resort for 'hopeless kids'. And unlike his principal, he treated them with heart.
e.g. orphaned boys, or boys whose parents don't have means to support them (financially and/or socially)
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Why not Realist ?
X basic skills
X scientific
X prepare for world of work
X Realist usually feel conforming to the school order / administration would be wise.
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Confucianism
What is Confucianism in educational perspectives?
• Believes people are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavor.
• Emphasizes self-cultivation, emulation of moral exemplars, and the attainment of skilled judgement rather than knowledge of rules.
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ConfucianismWhat is Confucianism in educational perspectives?
Requires a teacher be one who has developed their own character.
Does not use structured classes but encourages the strengths of students and improves their weaknesses.
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Confucianism and MathieuTeaching methods from
ConfucianismApplication of Mathieu in the film
To develop students’ interests in learning
To observe students’ behaviors and to communicate with them in order to have a comprehensive understanding of them.
Mathieu asked their students what they wanted to do when they grew up.
Mathieu found that the students had a good voice for singing so he composed for them every day.
Mathieu has positively recognized the students’ incentives so as to maintain their self-esteem.
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Confucianism and MathieuTeaching methods from
ConfucianismApplication of Mathieu in the
film
Uses music as a tool for teaching and cultivating “li” (propriety ; 禮 ).
Believes people possessing the same potential, and that education is the corrective means to stray from ethical behaviors.
Establishes a harmonious relation between teachers and students.
Mathieu has tried to use music to cultivate his students.
Mathieu believes different students have the same potentials to be explored.
Before teaching the music• Students were naughty and
did not follow the rules. After teaching the music• Students became obedient
and established a sense of trust to Mathieu.
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Mencius and MathieuTeaching methods derived from
MenciusApplication of Mathieu in the film
Believes people at birth are naturally good (kind-hearted).
Recognizes the importance of human education and cultivation.
Le Querrec has hurt Maxence but Mathieu has not punished him or taken him to the principal.
On the other hand, Mathieu requires him to help look after Maxence every day after class by working at the infirmary.
Rather than punishment, Mathieu gives the opportunity for Le Querrec to compensate his fault.
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Music (choir) in the eyes of Rachin
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“Music has helped with discipline”
Music (choir) in the eyes of Mathieu
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Music in Confucianism :
a device for self-cultivation a vehicle of self-expression a force of social stability a political tool a medium of communion between man,
nature and supernatural powers
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Music in Confucianism :
“Personal cultivation begins with poetry, is made firm by rules of ceremonials, and is perfected by music.”
(Lunyu, in the chapter “Tai Po”
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capable of completing
the personal development
of the individual
one’s ethical values are cultivated and one
becomes the ideal
Confucian gentleman
an honourable person, a
paragon of moral
integrity.
Moral integrity = Confucian
idea of humaneness
(ren 仁 )
Music in Confucianism :
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Music in Confucianism :
the essence of music is humaneness
A man who is not virtuous cannot claim to be a musician nor have anything to do with music
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Conclusion
傳道To Preach the
Ethics
解惑To Solve the Confusion
授業To Teach the Knowledge
唐。韓愈《師說》HAN Yu, Tang
Dynasty, “What is a Teacher?”
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Reflection
Why do you think music is chosen as a vital subject
to change the kid’s life and not math or physics instead? What
does music mean to you?