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Educational Research in France

In 2017, France celebrated 50 years of educational science and research. Two major conferences took place to recall the beginnings of educational science as a university subject in 1967, and to look back on its development during the last 50 years. The founders of the subject in France are Maurice Debesse, Jean Château and Gaston Mialaret. They also held the first chairs in educational science - at the universities of the Sorbonne, Bordeaux and Caen-Normandie.

In December 2018, a special issue of the journal Éducation et socialisation. Les cahiers du CERFEE (Centre de Recherches sur la formation, l'éducation et l'enseignement - Université de Montpellier 2) will be published. It will include contributions from the two anniversary conferences mentioned above on 50 years of educational science in France.

On this occasion, Education Worldwide compiled a webdossier on educational research in France. It offers an insight into professional societies & associations, research institutes & centers, research history, themes & trends, as well as conferences and journals of French educational research.

Professional Associations & Societies, Networks

France

Francophony

Research Institutes & Centres

France
The "National Institut of Education" (formerly Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique INRP) is the central institution for organisation, implementation, coordination and evaluation of French educational research. The website provides information on educational research and infrastructure in France: information on the organisation [...]

France
The ESPE are centres for teacher training and teacher education in France. They are integrated into respective universities. They train teachers for the primary and secondary level as well as for higher career grades (school directors etc.). Before 2013, the "Instituts Universitaires de Formation des Maîtres (IUFM)" were in charge of [...]

Research History, Themes & Trends

Publications in French

Publications in English

Conferences

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of educational research in France, two major conferences took place in 2017:

• Mêlées et démêlés, 50 ans de recherches en sciences de l'éducation [en France]
  20.-22.09.2017
• Enjeux, débats et perspectives : 50 ans de sciences de l'éducation [en France]
  18.-20.10.2017

A thematic issue will be compiled and published using contributions of these two conferences. The thematic issue will be published in December 2018 in the journal Éducation et socialisation. Les Cahiers du CERFEE.

The two conferences mentioned above are listed at the end of the following chronological list of current conferences (newest first).

France
Beginning 08.07.2019
The conference has no specific focus. "The 'International Francophone Network for Research in Education and Training' was founded in 1989. Every two years, it organizes  meetings between researchers in education of the four founding countries (France, Belgium, Quebec, Switzerland) or another French-speaking country. These meetings take the form of parallel [...]

France
Beginning 03.07.2019
The deadline for abstract submission was 12 November 2018. The conference will take place from 03 to 05 July 2019. Congress has no specific theme, but the contributions should focus especially the future of education and training.

Switzerland
Beginning 24.06.2019
The theme of the conference is "Passages, Transfers, Trajectories in Education".  "The conference’s objective is the historical study of the way educational ideas, knowledgeand practices are constructed and transformed through multiple processes of exchange andcirculation. These processes may be situated with respect to a range of temporal [...]

France
Beginning 11.01.2019
The deadline for abstract submission is 11 January 2019. The conference will take place from 04 to 07 July 2019.This is an international francophone conference that takes place every two years under the aegis of ATIEF (Association of Information Technologies for Education and Training). "The scientific theme of this year's EIAH conference (IT Environments for Human [...]

France
Beginning 22.03.2019
The theme of the conference will be "Is there a human resources policy for National Education?" (Existe-t-il une politique des ressources humaines à l’Éducation nationale ?) The thematic areas will be:the professions of National Educationthe management of staff and their careersthe functional valorization of actors The conference will be held [...]

Switzerland
Beginning 08.01.2019
The theme of this conference is "Between standardization, control and formative development. Evaluations as a source of synergies?" (Entre normalisation, contrôle et développement formatif. Évaluations sources de synergies?). The conference language will be French. The thematic areas are:At the individual level, is evaluation the source of [...]

France
Beginning 18.10.2017
This conference is organised on the occasion of 50 years of educational science in France.  In 1967, Educational Sciences became an official subject at universities in France. The conference will explore the history of educational science in France as well as its future. A similar conference was already held in Toulouse in September 2017.

France
Beginning 20.09.2017
In 1967, Educational Sciences became an official subject at universities in France. To celebrate the 50 years of educational sciences in France, a conference was organised in Toulouse. The theme of the conference was a play with words in French: "Scrums and Debates - 50 years of research in education" - scrums referring to a method of restarting play in rugby, as the [...]

Journals