Engagement et mobilisation de parents autour de l'ecole: Les actions pour le maintien en ZEP d'ecoles parisiennes

Dutercq, Yves; Lafaye, Claudette

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“…They found this form of limited action well suited to the various degrees of appreciation found among the school's parents. But as we have seen in other areas, grassroots activists representing parents' associations are not always heard by their leaders, whose watchwords and strategies for taking action correspond to other needs besides concerns with their "turf" (Dutercq and Lafaye 2003). Moreover, these disagreements are often the cause of disaffection on the part of the major traditional associations, a condition that benefits local associations or fosters a pure and simple retreat from activism.…”

Section: New Forms Of Mobilization At School and Elsewherementioning

confidence: 98%

“…In the first stage of our research on the joint mobilization of parents and teachers fighting to preserve a school's status in an education priority zone that benefited from the politics of affirmative action (Dutercq and Lafaye 2003), we conducted an inquiry retroactively by interviewing the different social actors who were involved in the situation at the school. This approach was limited by the fact that the only accounts we were able to collect after the fact tended to be narrativized bits that incorporated multiple and divergent events into a coherent metanarrative (Ricoeur 1983).…”

Section: A Case Study As An Ethnohistorical Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

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Taking Sides: To School or Not to School Squatters' Children

Dutercq

Lafaye²

2007

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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Families of squatters who had settled in a quiet neighborhood of Paris wished to send their children to the local school. Our ethnohistorical inquiry explores how the mobilization in favor of schooling the children was embedded in other controversies and mobilizations that arose from the squatters' presence in the occupied building. Many collective social actors (associations, unions, administrations, and politicians) were involved in conflicting mobilizations in an ongoing struggle of competing arguments. The contemporary crisis of the French model of political representation has enabled the emergence of new forms of collective protest: new ways of defining social problems and a new repertory of civil actions, that is, the "mediatization" of social action and the recourse to litigation. Our study suggests some of the possible extensions and limitations of this movement, especially in the context of action taken by teachers' unions and parents' associations. [judicialization, mobilization, parents, schooling, social movement] The right to housing, the right to a peaceful existence and to personal safety, and the right to education were the most outstanding demands made by the mobilizations and controversies that arose from the takeover of an unoccupied building in a residential area of Paris by inadequately housed families who were assisted by a housing rights association. These families wanted to send their children to the school in the vicinity of the building they were occupying. Their occupation of the building and their attempts to enroll their children generated a variety of demonstrations, both in support of and in opposition to the families' wishes, which our case study tracked historically on a day-today basis. We were particularly interested in studying the fight led by a series of associations and unions to coerce public authorities to recognize and fulfill their educational responsibility. We soon realized that the mobilization that occurred over a child's right to schooling closely overlapped with other mobilizations and controversies that focused on specific claims regarding housing rights, the legitimacy of a squatter's home, and the risks and dangers of the occupied building. These controversies were sustained and resolved by legal recourse, in a way that repositions it within the French legal system. The French state has made the regulation of social and political order its own administrative responsibility. Today it is increasingly difficult for the state administration to set universally operative rules, especially regarding schooling and its relationship with the parents of schoolchildren. In the

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Section: New Forms Of Mobilization At School and Elsewherementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: A Case Study As An Ethnohistorical Narrativementioning

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Taking Sides: To School or Not to School Squatters' Children

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Lafaye²

2007

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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“…Deux des actions entreprises -l'organisation d'une classe sauvage sur le trottoir, au bas de l'immeuble occupé, et une tentative d'occupation de l'école du quartier -attestent des déplacements du répertoire de l'action collective (Fillieule, 2005), en particulier des parents d'élèves (Dutercq & Lafaye, 2003), et des critiques auxquelles s'exposent ces nouvelles formes de protestation. À l'inverse les parents hostiles à la présence du squat restent dans un répertoire d'action très classique mais ils se signalent par leur grande obstination, harcelant de visites le maire d'arrondissement, par ailleurs très bienveillant à leur égard.…”

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“…Ce mode d'action limité leur paraît en phase avec les différences d'appréciation des parents de l'école de la rue Mérimée. Mais, comme on a pu le percevoir dans d'autres affaires, les militants de base des fédérations de parents d'élèves ne sont pas toujours entendus de leurs instances départementales et nationales, dont les mots d'ordre et les logiques d'action répondent à d'autres logiques que celles qui accompagnent les préoccupations de terrain (Dutercq & Lafaye, 2003). Ces désaccords sont du reste souvent la cause de la désaffection des fédérations traditionnelles au profit de coordinations locales ou du pur et simple retrait de l'action militante.…”

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Médiatisation et juridicisation : les nouvelles formes d’action des militants de l’école

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2010

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“…Une des caractéristiques de ce travail est de construire un militantisme global qui ne sépare pas l'école de l'habitat, des transports, etc. (Dutercq & Lafaye 2003). Cette démarche s'inscrit dans le prolongement d'un mouvement qui avait été initié par les prêtres ouvriers et qui aboutit à l'idée de communauté scolaire dans les années 1960années et 1970années (Derouet 2001.…”

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La ruse des petits, la sainteté des grands et la critique sociale

Derouet-Besson¹

2005

Education Et Sociétés

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Engagement et mobilisation de parents autour de l'ecole: Les actions pour le maintien en ZEP d'ecoles parisiennes

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Taking Sides: To School or Not to School Squatters' Children

Taking Sides: To School or Not to School Squatters' Children

Médiatisation et juridicisation : les nouvelles formes d’action des militants de l’école

La ruse des petits, la sainteté des grands et la critique sociale

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