Le Conseil supérieur de l’éducation pendant la deuxième ère de Robert Bourassa (1985-1994) une « table des sages » en quête d’action

Abstract

From 1985 to 1994, the Conseil supérieur de l’éducation experienced important changes under the presidencies of Pierre Lucier and Robert Bisaillon. Lucier (1984–1989) reoriented the CSE by strengthening its scientific credibility and formulating its opinions to make them more coherent and influential, thus consolidating the CSE’s role as a “table of the wise”. Under Bisaillon’s leadership (1989–1994), the CSE became involved in work that fuelled the major educational reforms of the 1990s, notably the “Renouveau pédagogique”, marking an unprecedented alliance between ministerial orientations and the work of the CSE. Together, these two men, and the teams they built up policy around them, played a decisive role in consolidating the CSE, and in developing and implementing the major reforms of the 1990s and early 2000s. Studying this period of the CSE’s existence thus enables us to renew our understanding of the reflections and debates that led to the 1995–96 Estates General on Education.