The Chorus (Les Choristes)
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The Chorus
Les Choristes
Dina Au, Cedric Cheng, Johnson Chu, Doris Chung,
Edmond Kar, Ken Lau, Charisse Mok, Ahmood Tsang
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Plot Summary
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Background
Post
WWII
Financially
Psychologically
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The School: Bottom of the Pond
Fond de L’Etang
Aged
~8 - 16
Underprivileged
Orphans
Juvenile Delinquencies
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Students
Protagonist
Single-parent
Angel face; Devil
mind
Pierre Morhange
/pi:'ɛʀ 'mɔ:ʀɔ:ʒ/
Parents died
in WWII
Pépinot
/'peɪpɪnɒ/
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Students
Mondain /mɔ'̃ dɑ/̃
•Wrecker
Corbin /'kɔ:ʀbɑ/̃
•Kind-hearted score
stand
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Teachers & Staff
Protagonist
Music teacher
Mr Clément Mathieu
/'kleɪmɔ ̃ mɑ'tjœ/
Principal Rachin
/'ʀæʃɑ/̃
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Teachers & Staff
Uncle La Père Maxence
/lɑ pɛʀ mæ'kʃɔs̃ /
•Kind-hearted Janitor
Mr Chabert /'ʃɑbɛʀ/
•Patriotic PE teacher
Mr Langlois /lɔ'̃ glwɑ/
• Piano-playing mathsteacher
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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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Activity 1
How do you feel when Rachin asks Mathieu to pick
someone as scapegoat and punish the whole class?
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Activity 1 (video)
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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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Rachin & Legalism
Legalism
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
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Rachin
Legalism
in the movie
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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Principal Rachin’s Educational
Philosophy?
Desperate
Realist
Rotten
Idealist
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Rachin’s Educational Philosophy?
Selfish
Fortune
Fame
Profit
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Rachin’s Educational Philosophy?
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~ A Realist
Reasoning
Corporal
punishment
Discipline
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~ A Realist
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Mondain: A victim of Realistic
Principal
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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
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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 : Any alternative way?
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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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Pragmatist
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.
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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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Confucianism
What 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 Mathieu
Teaching methods from Confucianism
Application of Mathieu in the film
To develop students’ interests in Mathieu asked their students what
learning
they wanted to do when they grew up.
To observe students’ behaviors and Mathieu found that the students had a
to communicate with them in order
good voice for singing so he composed
to
have
a
comprehensive
for them every day.
understanding of them.
Mathieu has positively recognized the
students’ incentives so as to maintain
their self-esteem.
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Confucianism and Mathieu
Teaching methods from Confucianism
Application 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 Mathieu
Teaching methods derived from Mencius
Application of Mathieu in the film
Believes people at birth are naturally Le Querrec has hurt Maxence but
good (kind-hearted).
Mathieu has not punished him or taken
Recognizes the importance of human
him to the principal.
education and cultivation.
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 (choir) in the eyes of Mathieu
“Music has helped with discipline”
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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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Music in Confucianism :
one’s ethical
values are
cultivated and
one becomes the
ideal Confucian
gentleman
capable of
completing the
personal
development of
the individual
Moral integrity =
Confucian idea of
humaneness (ren
仁)
an honourable
person, a
paragon of moral
integrity.
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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
唐。韓愈《師說》
HAN Yu, Tang
Dynasty, “What is a
Teacher?”
傳道
To Preach the Ethics
授業
To Teach the
Knowledge
解惑
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To Solve the
Confusion
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?
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