Democratic Education in Practice: A Microethnography of the Paris Self-Managed High School

ISBN-13: 9783031402654 / Angielski

Mehdi Galiere

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Power Relations and Ideology in Education

3. Pedagogy, Discourse and Ethnography

4. Official and Alternative Pedagogic Discourses: an Analysis

5. Everyday Educational Practices in the Paris Self-Managed Highschool

6.‘Radio LAP’: a Transdisciplinary Pedagogic Event

7. Conclusion: Rethinking the Collective and the Individual in Education Through Self-Management: a Generalisable Endeavour?

O autorze

Mehdi Galiere is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Szeged University, Hungary.

Blurb

This book examines how the Lycée autogéré de Paris, an experimental high school established in 1982 which claims to implement critical and democratic pedagogical practices, contributes to the development of counter-hegemonic educational and social practices. The author presents and analyses significant discursive data on the school’s pedagogical practice, focusing specifically on triangulation, from general assemblies to official texts, pedagogic projects and everyday interactions inside and outside the institution. He then argues that the discourses of the self-managed high school tend to be critical of the French state’s neoliberal discourse on education while favouring the development of practices of solidarity within the local and broader context of the institution. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of sociology of education, sociolinguistics and education for social justice.

Mehdi Galiere is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Szeged University, Hungary.