CHAPON Nathalie

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nathalie.chapon@univ-amu.fr

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A sociologist, she has been working since 2003 on the issue of childhood, emotional bonds and relationships, atypical families and parenthood within child protection care systems. Her work focuses on child protection systems, the relationships between the various players - children, parents and child welfare professionals - and the issues of history, identity and biographical transmission, as well as the analysis of child protection systems in the Mediterranean and Europe. She is a member of LAMES and of Axis 4, directed by Laurent Mucchielli. She is continuing her work on issues relating to the analysis of kinship, parenthood within specific systems, the history of abandonment, and biographical writings in child protection.

Director of the DAEU, Diplôme d'Accès aux Etudes Universitaires, 2008-2014

Areas of research

Family, childhood, life history, child protection in France and Europe, links and filiation
Regular teaching
Master's degree in Education Sciences "Training for health and social work managers", in analysis of the field of health,

Research methodology, Supervision of research dissertations
DAEU Diploma of Access to University Studies

Scientific coordinator, programme manager

She has directed two research projects: one on "Foster family relationships", the other on "The history of the vulnerable child".

2014-2017 : Research into foster family relationships, with financial support from the ONPE (l'Observatoire National de la Protection de l'Enfance), entitled. "What makes a host family a family?was completed in January 2017. This is sociological research, combining the views of the various players (children, parents, foster families, institutions, etc.), using a multi-method approach (interviews, participant observation, analysis of children's files) and a multi-disciplinary approach (legal and sociological). More than a hundred interviews were carried out, and a sociological analysis of family and sibling configurations and a legal analysis provided answers to broader questions about parenthood.

Concerning the "Life stories of vulnerable children" research project, the use of biographical writing in the context of child protection, practices and effects on parents and professionals.
This is an analysis of the biographical process in atypical families, particularly in the child protection sector. The importance of biographical writing takes on its full meaning in the specific context of child placement, where life events are constructed outside the original family structure.
It is also developing innovative approaches to the presentation of research results and outputs, particularly in visual form.

Production of a film for CD13 (Bouches du Rhône) "Family assistants, a job for the whole heart". After a period of immersion and a participatory survey of the foster family, sociological research was carried out using filmed interviews (simple self-confrontation and cross-confrontation of childcare professionals).

Production of a training platform for family assistants and social workers, based on film anthropology work within various foster families (2012-2014). This platform can be used in all social work training programmes (family assistant, social worker, childminder, etc.).

Productions

Work

  • CHAPON. N., (2014), Parentalité d'accueil et relations affectives, PUP, Aix-en-Provence.

Management of works

  • CHAPON. N (Dir), (2016), Parentalite d'accueil et mémoire, PUP, Aix-en-Provence.
  • CHAPON. N., PREMOLI S., (Dir), (2018), Un panorama européen de la parentalité d'accueil, PUP, Aix-en-Provence. (March)
  • CHAPON. N., NEYRAND. G., SIFFREIN-BLANC.C., (2018), Les liens en famille d'accueil, Erès, Toulouse (to be published first quarter)

Research report

Chapters in collective works

  • CHAPON. N., (2016), Can a child have several parents? La parentalité d'accueil serait-elle une réponse possible, in Coum.D. (Dir.), Avons-nous toujours besoin de père et de mère, Erès, Toulouse.
  • CHAPON. N., (2016), Etre femme, mère et assistante familiale, les paradoxes d'une profession, in Knibiehler Y. (Dir.), Difficile conciliation vie professionnelle et familiale : des accueillants formés pour répondre aux transformations du travail, L'Harmattan, Paris.
    2015
  • CHAPON. N., (2015), La recherche filmique en sciences de l'éducation, apports et attendus de la recherche , in Kiprianos P., Pourtois J-P., Famille, école, sociétés locales : politiques et pratiques pour l'enfant, Edition UMons, Belgique.
  • CHAPON. N., SIFFREIN-BLANC C., (2015), La parole...de l'enfant à son parent : regards et représentations croisés en accueil familial, in Lacharité C., Sellenet C., Chamberland C., La protection de l'enfance, la parole des enfants et des parents, Presses de l'Université du Québec.
  • CHAPON. N., (2014), Habitabilité et usage de l'espace privé et public dans la construction des liens en familles atypiques en protection de l'enfance, in Signorile P. (Dir.), Droit et architecture, reconsidérer les frontières disciplinaires, leurs interations et leurs mutations, Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, PUAM.
  • CHAPON. N., (2014), De la parentalité aux suppléances du lien familial, Putman E, Agresti J-P, Siffrein-Blanc C., (Dir.), Lien familial, lien obligationnel, lien social, Livre II-Lien familial et lien social, Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, PUAM.
  • CHAPON. N., FRANCIS. V., (2014), Les traces biographiques, récit de l'histoire de vie des enfants accueillis, in J'ai un truc à te dire, Ancrage, ANPF édition, Paris.

Indexed peer-reviewed journals

  • CHAPON. N., (2018), Les différentes formes de parentalité d'accueil en protection de l'enfance : Quelles relations entre l'enfant confié, ses parents et sa famille d'accueil, Revue Politiques sociales et familiales, CNAF (accepted with modifications).
  • CHAPON. N., (2018), Les différentes formes de familles pour l'enfant confié, Recherches familiales (accepted with modifications).
  • CHAPON. N., (2017), "Frères et sœurs en accueil familial, de la fratrie au groupe fraternel", Revue Spirale "Petit frère, petite sœur", n°81, April.
  • CHAPON. N., FRANCIS V., (2015), Escribir sobre la primera infancia. Las prácticas biográficas de las profesionales, Narrativas, (auto)biografias e educaçãoRevista Linhas, Florianópolis, v. 16, n. 32, p. 93 - 110, set./dez., Brazil.
  • CHAPON. N., MONTAMBAULT. E., (2013), Le placement des enfants de la France au Québec : deux politiques, une même intention, Revue Intervention de l'Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec, n° 137.2, Québec.
  • CHAPON. N., (2011), A qui appartient l'enfant en accueil familial ? Une question de places, le chemin de la coéducation, Dialogue, n°193, September, Toulouse, Erès.
  • CHAPON-CROUZET. N., (2005), Un nouveau regard sur le placement familial : Relations affectives et modes de suppléance, Dialogue, 168, 17-27.
  • CHAPON-CROUZET. N., (2005), Une constellation de lieux au sein du placement familial : l'omniprésence de la question des places, Recherches familiales, UNAF, 2, janvier, 37-46.
  • CHAPON-CROUZET. N., (2005), Modes d'organisation et relation dans la fratrie en situation de placement familial, Les Sciences de l'éducation pour l'ère nouvelle, volume 38, 2, 25-44.
  • CHAPON-CROUZET. N., (2005), L'expression de liens fraternels au sein des familles d'accueil : de la fratrie au groupe fraternel nourricier, Devenir, volume 17, 3, 261-276.
  • CHAPON-CROUZET. N., NEYRAND. G. (dir.), (2005), Parentalité et familles d'accueil, Dialogue, n°168 (out of print)

National magazines

  • CHAPON. N., (2015), Coeducation in foster care, International Social Service, International Reference Centre for the Rights of the Child, Monthly Bulletin.
  • CHAPON. N., (2014), Jeune et en pleine forme, l'importance du dépistage du cancer du sein, Opinion column for Nouvel Obs Plus, October, 7000 readers.
  • CHAPON. N., (2014), L'importance de l'approche thérapeutique face à la maladie, Opinion column for Nouvel Obs Plus, October, 5000 readers.
  • CHAPON. N., (2014), La perte des cheveux n'est plus une fatalité en cancer du sein, Opinion column for Nouvel Obs Plus, October, 30,000 readers.
    Reading report
  • CHAPON.N., (2012), Compte-rendu de lecture NEYRAND. G., Soutenir et contrôler les parents, le dispositif de parentalité, Revue internationale des Sciences de l'éducation, n°31, septembre.

ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES

  • CHAPON N., RAMON. V, (2016), Organising Committee for the APFEL International Colloquium (Acting for Promotion of Fostering at European Level).
    5th Apfef International Conference, Plural parenting in foster care in Europe, The Foster Care in Europe, Lille, partnership with ANPF, 4-5 December 2016.
  • CHAPON N., RAMON. V, PREMOLI. S, (2015), Organising Committee of the APFEL International Colloquium (Acting for Promotion of Fostering at European Level).
    4th Apfef International Conference, The Foster Care in Europe: "The thread of the rights," Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano & Università degli Studi di Bergamo, 12-13 November 2015.
  • CHAPON. N., LAMBERT. G., (2014), Comité d'organisation du Colloque Regards croisés sur l'enfance et la famille, 27-28 mars aux Archives départementales des Bouches du Rhône.
    - Organisation of the Colloquium "Regards croisés sur l'enfance et la famille", an exhibition "La mémoire et le lien", in partnership with the Direction enfance-famille, the service de l'accueil familial du CG13, the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Toulon Provence Méditerranée, the LESA, Aix-Marseille-Université.
    - Direction of the symposium CHAPON. N., LAMBERT. G., (2013), Le film de recherche en accueil familial, Animation du Symposium, Congrès Internationale en Education Familiale du 22-26 mai, AIFREF, Patras, Grèce.
    - The aim of the symposium on "Film-based research in child protection" is to examine the film-based mechanisms used and the methodology employed in child protection research. It will draw on a range of research currently underway in France and abroad using the camera in social science research, "audiovisual experimentation as a means of collecting data" (Duflot, 1970). It brings together contributions from researchers in the social sciences (sociology, education sciences, etc.) who use the filmic approach to observe, analyse and describe the work of social workers and family assistants, in order to gain a better understanding of professional and family relationships within foster care arrangements such as foster families, but also within families when a monitoring measure is put in place in the parents' home.

International conferences with online publication of proceedings

  • CHAPON. N., FRANCIS. V., (2014), Escribir sobre la primera infancia. Las prácticas biográficas de las profesionales, VI Congresso Internacional de Pesquisa (Auto)biográfica (VI CIPA), 16-19 November, Universitad de Rio de Janeiro.
  • CHAPON. N., FRANCIS. V., (2013), Biographical approaches in child protection: Practices, effects on parents, children and professionalsAREF Symposium, 27-30 August, Montpellier.
  • CHAPON. N., (2012), La question de l'appropriation et de la transmission en recherche filmique en protection de l'enfance, 37 Atelier " Petite Enfance ", Communication n°2, Biennale de l'éducation de la formation et des pratiques professionnelles, 3-6 juillet, Paris.
  • CHAPON. N., (2012), La transmission en famille d'accueil : De la corésidence à l'expression de relations affectives particulières, Invited lecture at the Symposia "La transmission inter et intra générationnelle", Biennale de l'éducation de la formation et des pratiques professionnelles, 3-6 July, Paris.