Cités éducatives 2022-2025 . The Marseille Education Centres
A team of Mesopolhis Axis 1 researchers is in charge of a government-funded evaluative study of Marseille's Cités éducatives.
Project coordinators
Magali Nonjon (MCF, Mesopolhis)
Ariane Richard-Bossez (MCF, Mesopolhis)
Camille Floderer (post-doctoral fellow, Mesopolhis)
Presentation of the Cités éducatives
The deployment of Cités éducatives (CEs) from May 2019 aims to ensure "the mobilisation of all the players and institutions involved around the school and the various educational venues to ensure educational continuity [...] throughout the career of children from the age of 3 and young people up to the age of 25, before, during, around and after the school setting" (circular of 28/06/2021), in certain Priority Education (PE) areas. Implemented for a period of three years, the aim of the CE approach is to improve the structure of the players in the education community in the targeted areas. To improve educational support for children and young people aged 0 to 25, State services (via the Rectorat and the sub-prefect in charge of equal opportunities, as well as the CAF, the ARS, etc.), local authorities (city, metropolis, departmental council, region), as well as residents and associations working in the targeted areas, are mobilised.
In 2019, 3 Educational Centres (Cités éducatives) were awarded the label in Marseille (Marseille Centre-ville, Marseille Malpassé-Corot, Marseille Nord). In 2022, two new ECs were awarded the label (one in Marseille's 14th arrondissement and one at Les Docks). The Mesopolhis team is in charge of evaluating these different works councils.
The research programme
- A qualitative assessment of the processes at work within the Marseille Works Councils
This evaluative research aims to report on the effects of the 'Cité éducative' approach in terms of territorial development, changes in professional practices and governance and, in so doing, to gain a better understanding of the impact of the CEs on the various players involved, beyond just the general public.
The qualitative evaluation of the processes at work within this EC should provide useful lessons for both the national approach and local projects (a better understanding of the rationale for implementation and transfers in particular, but also of what the ECs produce for their target audiences), by identifying the levers for action, but also the obstacles with which the operational players have to contend.
- A multidisciplinary research team:
The MESOPOLHIS research laboratory at Aix-Marseille University is making available a team of researchers in the Human and Social Sciences already involved in issues relating to priority education and, more broadly, the territorialisation of public policies (particularly education policies) to carry out this evaluation of the 'Marseilles' CEs:
Coordination :
Camille Floderer, Doctor in Political Science, Post-doctoral fellow, Sciences Po Aix
Magali Nonjon, MCF in Political Science, Sciences Po Aix
Ariane Richard-Bossez, MCF in Sociology of Education, Inspé Aix-Marseille University
Research team
Renaud Cornand, Doctor in Sociology of Education, Aix-Marseille University
Christine Félix, MCF in Education Sciences, Aix-Marseille University
Gaël Marsaud, Doctor of Political Science, Paris 8
Clément Teffri-Chambelland, Research intern at Mesopolhis, Master's student in Information Technology, Sciences Po Aix