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Guy Avanzini

French pedagogist and university professor (1929-2022)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3121528 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guy Avanzini (7 July 1929 – 18 October 2022) was a French academic, historian, and philosopher. A professor of social sciences at Lumière University Lyon 2, he was a specialist in the history of pedagogical ideas and a historian of educational theories.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Guy Avanzini” is french pedagogist and university professor (1929-2022). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Avanzini, French and pedagogist, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Avanzini, French and pedagogist is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3121528. The first chronological checks are 1929 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guy Avanzini” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.