The Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Belgium) is profoundly marked by academic and socio-economic segregation which is rooted in a particular organisation of the education system. Segregation between schools has been widely highlighted. Classroom segregation in schools has been little addressed in lite...

At the time France grants asylum to the half million Spanish people fleeing Franco, the Spanish language was only of interest to a small minority of pupils. At the beginning of the 1950s, while English and even German were aware of the increased favours of young people, Spanish continued to grow in...

This communication presents some of the results of prospective research into ways of combating school segregation in the French Community of Belgium through the modulated allocation of resources to schools according to the characteristics of their host population. In order to take account of these c...

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This work is concerned with the analysis of the integration, didactisation and modification of Rameau’s theory, as well as of its status and definiteness in the second half of the XVIIIth century in France, via the study of the didactic treatises on music. This thesis aims in understanding and expla...

uncertainty has been captured by education. Of course, this has always been the case, not least because the educational outcomes have hardly ever been commensurate with the hopes or expectations that we wanted to achieve. Nevertheless, for a long time, and in particular, throughout the expansion of...

In recent years, school segregation of migrant pupils, newly arrived in Catalonia, has stabilised at a high level. In response to this huge challenge, education policy has taken multiple, not always coherent, ways. Successive Catalan governments have put in place strategies to facilitate the integra...

The general States of the education held in Yaoundé in 1995, consequences of the teaching movements following the wage cuts of 1993, on labor-union pressure, allowed to make the diagnosis of the Cameroonian education system generally and the teaching profession in particular. If the conclusions of t...

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How to capture inequalities in educational outcomes related to pupils’ and their families’ migration pathways? According to some authors, these inequalities would be the result of ‘cultural discontinuities’ between students from a popular and/or migrant background and the school itself. This kind of...

The ‘missions’ decree (1997), with the significant process of transforming the system it initiates, is a key milestone in school policy in the French Community of Belgium. The aim of this book is to question the reality of compulsory education 6 years after the enactment of that decree. The first ch...

national audience Exchanges about skills are numerous both in the world of work and in the education system. The term competence is multifaceted and its many uses call for debate and hopefully for clarification.

Introduction since September 2001, a new reform has led to a thorough rewriting of curricula in secondary education in the French Community of Belgium. All the curricula of all subjects of transition education (general and technical) are therefore structured around the statement of competences. The...

This article shows the genealogy of a pilot educational project in the primary school of a Karen mountain village in northern Thailand. The initiative, intended to include local education in the framework of the national primary curriculum, is linked to a wider project of pedagogical reform of the T...

Our study is intended to analyse the type of priority claims that the trade union of Greek teachers (DOE) has been able to deploy in a particular historical period (before the colonels came to power), focusing on the relationship between requests of a professional nature and those of a strictly educ...

This article questions the process of Europeanisation of the French education system through the example of a typical measure of new public management advocated in several European and international arenas on good practices in education governance: evaluation of schools. To this end, it mobilises so...

This thesis is an attempt to shed light on the stakes revealed by the introduction of a specific innovative teaching method, which has played a key role in the evolution of the teaching practices in French technical schools (vocational education in secondary schools). Since the 2000 school year, wit...

This text provides a historical and critical analysis of the development of Quebec intervention policies in disadvantaged environments over the past 50 years. The first step is to reconstruct the evolution of the main challenges of these policies (designing the link between poverty and education, gu...

The teaching of modern languages in the French education system has been the subject of major reforms, in particular since the launch in 2005 of the plan for the renewal of the teaching of modern foreign languages, backed by the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Language...

While one might believe that the outdated Koran is remembered in a modern society, the coranic school (kuttanb) is widely present throughout Egypt and is even experiencing some kind of revival. What is the persistence of this particular type of education? What school, religious and linguistic functi...

no under the direction of Estelle Lebel National audience in France, the Interministerial Convention of 25 February 2000 on the promotion of equal opportunities for girls and boys and between women and men in the education system calls for information sessions to be held for the various categories o...

Without further developing justice theories, it is interesting to look at one of them in particular, in order to see how this fairness can be measured in an instrumental way, through the construction of a particular indicator. The perspective adopted by Sen in particular makes it possible to measure...

Based on numerous examples in various countries (including the United States, Japan, France), the author sets out the methodological difficulties of the comparative studies and the errors of interpretation they may cause, and the usefulness of systemic analysis in understanding the complexity and va...

The morality defined by the political system of the market economy is based on the respect of debt repayment. However, public debt is different and has not to be analysed as a worse management of public resources. Contrary to private agents, State has not, in principle, a limited time horizon and it...