Le livre traite le phnomne du dcrochage scolaire au Qubec (Canada) dun point de vue dun enseignant de franais et chercheur luniversit de la Nouvelle Sorbonne Paris III. Le livre se compose de trois parties : la premire partie, On dmontre des raisons possibles du dcrochage avec queques donnes statistiques, de lintimidation et de la violence lcole. La deuxime partie traite la douance chez les lves et ses facettes et la dernire partie dmontre le dcrochage scolaire dans diffrents contextes et on y donne des solutions possibles.

Youth in Education explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity. Schools, families and communities represent important settings in which young people must make successful transitions to adulthood, and the classroom often becomes a battleground in which these contexts and values interact. With contributions from the UK, Belgium, Germany and Canada, the chapters in this book explore rich examples from Europe and North America to suggest strategies that can help to counter negative perceptions, processes of stigmatization and disengagement, instead prioritising peer support and cooperative learning to give pupils a renewed sense of worth. This book takes the growing ethno-cultural diversity in education systems to heart and studies the various related educational processes from a multidisciplinary and multi-method approach. It aims to offer more insight into underlying mechanisms that are often implicit, but can be important factors that positively or negatively influence educational trajectories and outcomes. It is essential reading for researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of education, sociology, higher education, policy and politics, and social and cultural geography.

The widespread failure of so many interventions in First Nations and Inuit communities across Canada requires an explanation. Applying the theoretical and methodological rigour of experimental social psychology to genuine community-based constructive change, Donald Taylor and Roxane de la Sablonnière outline new ways of addressing the challenges that Aboriginal leaders are vocalizing publicly. To date, the decolonization process in Canada has led to programs that focus on the struggling individual. However, colonization was and still is a collective process and thus requires collective solutions. Rooted in years of research, teaching, and experience in First Nations and Inuit communities, the authors offer necessary solutions. They contend that survey research can be uniquely applied as a means to initiate constructive community change, demonstrating how their intervention process uses such research to foster positive social norms by feeding the results back to the community. Ultimately, Towards Constructive Change in Aboriginal Communities outlines how field research can be used to give a voice to First Nations and Inuit community members and serve as a platform for constructive social change.

This volume of the Research in Global Child Advocacy Series explores participatory methodologies and tools that involve children in research. Perspectives on the role of children have transitioned from viewing children as objects of research, to children as subjects of research, to acknowledgement of children as competent contributors and agents throughout the inquiry process. Researchers continue to explore approaches that honor the capacity of children, drawing on diverse methodologies to elevate children’s voices and actively engage them in the production of knowledge. Nonetheless, despite these developments, questions over the extent to which children can be free of adult filters and influence merits sustained scholarly attention. The book includes chapters that critically examine methodological approaches that empower children in the research process. Contributions include empirical or practitioner pieces that operate from an empowerment paradigm and demonstrate the agenic capacity of children to contribute their perspectives and voices to our understanding of childhood and children’s lives. The text also features conceptual pieces that challenge existing theoretical frameworks, critique research paradigms, and analyze dilemmas or tensions related to ethics, policy and power relations in the research process.

Ce roman raconte un destin politique de 1985 à...2014.Nice, 1985. Jean Blanquin, participe à un Congrès sur les Sciences de l'Education. Exaspéré par le discours creux d'un psychosociologue médiatisé, il s'en prend au pédant en inventant une Ecole de Léningrad des Sciences de l'Education. Les russes feront de cette créature imaginaire une Ecole mondialement connue. Loin de desservir le héros, l'épisode le mènera de succès en succès, jusqu'au sommet de l'Etat.Blanquin est un Rastignac de circonstances, un surfeur d'évènements fomentés par d'autres et le hasard. Même s'il est capable d'opportunisme. On dira de lui que c'est un suiviste qui s'engage.Mentors et soutiens cachés facilitent l'ascension politique du héros. Les liens occultes et troublants qui les relient se font jour au fil du récit. D'abord, un ministre projette sur lui les désirs qu'il n'a pu assouvir. Les raisons des autres sont du ressort des fils invisibles et mystérieux unissant les êtres.