Book by Thomas Douniès, Vanille Laborde and Guillaume Silhol (ed.): «Fabrique politique de l'École, fabrique scolaire du politique».»

Thomas Douniès, Vanille Laborde, Guillaume Silhol (ed.), Fabrique politique de l'École, fabrique scolaire du politique, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, collection Paradoxa, 2026, 404p. (ISSN 25528203 - EAN 9782757445860) Summary: An invitation to think of the school as a space of political power, legitimisation and uprising. Read more Who governs schools today? What role...

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Guillaume Silhol, article: «Politisation et requalification de la «culture religieuse»: une sociologie des controverses pédagogiques sur l'instruction religieuse en Italie (1974-1984)» (Educational Research)

Guillaume Silhol, « Politisation et requalification de la « culture religieuse » : une sociologie des controverses pédagogiques sur l'instruction religieuse en Italie (1974-1984) », Recherches en éducation, n°61, 2026, pp.8-22, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ree/13983 Résumé de l'article : Analysing educational controversies as social processes requires considering both their direct effects and unrealized alternatives, as well as their institutional and political contexts. The case of...

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Scientific home - Welcome to Estelle Fossey!

MESOPOLHIS is delighted to welcome Estelle Fossey from 20 to 29 October 2025. Estelle Fossey holds a doctorate in sociology and is a researcher with the Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Cultures et les Identités (GIRCI), the social sciences and humanities laboratory at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar. She is also a senior lecturer in...

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Ariane Richard-Bossez, "L'entrée dans les apprentissages scolaires et ses inégalités, Lecture sociologique de la construction des savoirs à l'école maternelle", Ed. PUR, 2023

L'entrée dans les apprentissages scolaires et ses inégalités Lecture sociologique de la construction des savoirs à l'école maternelle Richard-Bossez Ariane (aut.)Vitale Philippe (préface) Since the start of the 2019 school year, the age of compulsory education has been raised from 6 to 3 in order to promote academic success for all children and combat inequalities in learning. However, since...

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Nathalie CHAPON, "Assistant familial : évolution des profils et enjeux professionnels" in Familles à l'épreuve de la menace, Dialogue Familles & Couples 2022/3 (n° 237)

Summary Family assistants are childcare professionals who choose to work within their own families, taking in children entrusted to them by the Children's Social Welfare Agency. Initially practised by women, this profession is gradually opening up to men, but is still surrounded by prejudice. What is the...

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Mohamed Dendani, Fabienne Soldini (eds.) - Digital reading and writing.

Despite its widespread use in most areas of activity, digital technology still raises questions for specialists and researchers. So, while digital practices are supposed to be democratised, why is it that digital reading and writing skills often remain the prerogative of the well-to-do and educated classes, as well as young people, whose literacy skills vary considerably?

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Nathalie Chapon - "The difficult battle against the segregation of professions: family assistants are also men".

ASH, n° 3200, 12 March 2021 - Interview Abou El Khair C.en ligne "Despite calls for 'gender diversity', the social and medico-social professions remain extremely feminised. From a lack of guidance to the devaluation of jobs, there are many reasons why men are absent from these professions. But certain practices, or the lack of them, also contribute to segregation...

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Nathalie Chapon - "Foster families: holding on, but for how long?

"The restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 crisis have left the foster families in the child welfare system exhausted. This fatigue, combined with a lack of structural consideration, is leading to fears of an even greater decline in foster care provision". ... To find out more

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