Defenders of both lac and of confessional education have marked there differences with regard to child moralization by means of the effects they attribute to educational contents. Device of laic moralization - a symptom of which is to be found in the Durkheimian discourse - allows for the hypothesis that the two pedagogical devices may stend in a relation of complementarity rather than in one of opposition.
laic pedagogy; confessional pedagogy; Durkheim; morality; pedagogical device; social symptom; domination