“…I have evoked at the beginning of the text the different contexts of learning on which I worked -governed by this relational and conceptual mode (de Grave, 2001Grave, , 2007Grave, , 2009Grave, , 2011Grave, , 2013Grave, , 2014aGrave, , 2014bGrave, 2007Grave, , 2012 -to retain within the framework of this essay ritual initiation groups and highschools. As I have shown in a synthetic way, the comparative approach of different case studies has revealed conceptual and practical shifts in these two types of activities.…”