Thesis
French
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Abstract
This PhD thesis deals with gender and education, more specifically investigating schools and schoolteachers. This research examines primary schoolteachers’ representations of their female and male pupils. Data have been drawn from the teachers’ portraits of their pupils. With reference to two theoretical frameworks, cognitive social representation theory and psychoanalysis, two methodologies have been used to collect and analyze data. On the one hand, the quantitative methodology shows that teachers produce significantly more discourse on their male pupils in zones d’education prioritaire (areas targeted for special help in education), and that when describing girls and boys, they discuss different themes in different ways according to the context. On the other, a clinical analysis of twenty-four student portraits shows that portraits of girls and boys do not focus on the same elements in terms of relationship to knowledge, and that the former more often meet their teachers’ desires than the latter. In effect, female and male pupils do not enjoy the same environment and do not elicit similar expectations from their teachers.