Goals

  • Untangle the complex links between school and society; 
  • Analyse current issues in schools by placing them in their historical context; 
  • Analyse social inequalities in schools, their origins and the educational approaches that can be developed to mitigate them; 
  • Consider schools as organisations, part of a specific institutional culture 
  • Identify the various actors in and around schools and classrooms, and analyse their roles and functions ; 
  • Use an eco-systemic analysis grid to understand certain social phenomena specific to school life. 
  • Consider one's socio-professional integration into the school system. 


Content

Part 1 

· The School as an Organization  

· Stakeholders in the School

· School-Family Relationships

Part 2

· The Sociology and Philosophy of Education: Two Disciplines for Thinking at the Macro Level About the Relationship Between School Education and Society

· An overview of selected theories and controversies for analyzing relationships of domination in schools and education:

  • The reproduction of social inequalities

  • The relationship between the school system and the shaping/domination of childhood

  • Gender inequalities

  • Racism

  • Ableism

Table of contents

Chapter 1: The School as an Organization

Chapter 2: Stakeholders in the School

Chapter 3: School-Family Relationships

Chapter 4: Looking at the School Differently, and Launching an Investigation into School and Educational Power Relations Based on Selected Concepts from Sociology and the Philosophy of Education

Chapter 5. Social Inequalities in the Context of School: Theories of Reproduction and Their Controversies from the 1970s to Current Research in the Educational Sciences

Chapter 6: Childism, Schooling, and the Construction of Childhood in the Long History of the School and Family Institutions

Chapter 7: Gender Inequalities in the History and Present of School and Educational Structures

Chap. 8. Racism in Schools: Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Critical Race Theory (CRT)

Chap. 9. Ableism: Disability, Norms, and Inclusive Schools

Exercices

Activity 1: Simulation sessions in education supporting work on meeting and communicating with education professionals (CPMS agents, AIMO, hubs, etc.) and parents

Activity 2: Meet a professional working in the field of education (outside school) and make a poster or a video illustrating this meeting

Teaching methods

Theoretical section

  • Interactive presentations

  • Collective readings

  • Case studies

  • Micro surveys/collection of evidence for analysis during classes

Exercise section

  • Simulations

  • Field visits

Assessment method

Individual written assessment (85%) and completion of a small-group project (15%)

The procedures are the same for the second session.

Language of instruction

French