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Charles-Jacques Defodon (14 May 1832 – 18 February 1891) was a French educationist who had great influence on primary education in France in the later part of the 19th century. He helped initiate many reforms, including improvements to the education of girls. His pedagogical books shed light on what a committed republican thought children should and should not be taught. ==Life== Charles-Jacques Defodon was born in Rouen on 14 May 1832. He was a brilliant pupil at secondary school in Rouen, then went on to the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He was an independent teacher in Paris from 1853 to 1863. During this period he was the secretary of Victor Cousin for some time. In 1864 the publisher Louis Hachette gave him the position as assistant to M. Barrau in drafting the General Manual of Primary Education. Defodon would devote the rest of his career to primary education, and became a highly respected leader in this field. After Barrau died in 1865 he became responsible for the General Manual. At the time primary education was in poor shape in France, and many reforms were needed to rejuvenate it. Defodon combined prudence with vision. Thus he wanted to create two schools to train the senior teaching and administrative staff of the primary education system. He also arranged for an exhibition on schools at the International Exposition of 1867, which was a great success. Defodon was professor at the teacher training school of Auteuil (1872–79), Librarian of the Educational Museum (1879–85) and primary inspector in Paris (1885–91). Defodon was associated with the ''Ami de l'enfance'', the organ of the French maternal educational system, which he co-edited with Pauline Kergomard. In 1884 the French Chamber's budget commission considered eliminating all inspectresses general of nursery schools. The ''L'Ami de l'enfance'' raised the alarm. Defodon praised the inspectorate as a French tradition that made use of women's distinctive maternal talents. Caroline de Barrau noted that nursery schools had been founded as an initiative of women which the state then chose to support. She disparaged the regime by comparison to its predecessors, who had introduced inspectresses general. The unsatisfactory compromise was to dismiss or retire four of the inspectresses and retain the other four. Charles-Jacques Defodon was a member of the Higher Education Council from 1888 until his death in Paris on 18 February 1891. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Defodon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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