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Great and Small Expectations: The French Education System

Guy Dreux

Guy Dreux

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Elise Brault-Dreux

Elise Brault-Dreux

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Austerity and the Remaking of European Education

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...For thirty years or so, French education has been designed to serve the economy. Responsible for the production of ‘human capital’, it is expected to respond to the evolution of the labour market. Compelled to contribute to gains...

Researching School-Based Islam

Shiraz Thobani

Shiraz Thobani is Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Islam in the School Curriculum : Symbolic Pedagogy and Cultural Claims

Continuum, 2011

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...Religious Education in the English Policy Context In contrast to the United States and France, the United Kingdom is not a secular state and its unwritten constitution...

The Academic Condition: Unstable Structures, Ambivalent Narratives, Dislocated Identities

Niilo Kauppi

Niilo Kauppi

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Academic Identities in Higher Education : The Changing European Landscape

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Published by letudiant.fr and the weekly L’Express, http://www.letudiant.fr/educpros , is a French website devoted to higher education.Nobody does the job for which we were formed and that we love. We spend...

France: Meritocracy and Social Divides

Marie-Pierre Moreau

Marie-Pierre Moreau

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Education in the European Union : Pre-2003 Member States

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The French system of education is characterized overall by a high level of centralization and, at tertiary level, by a shift to mass education that has taken place earlier than many other European countries. It is also underpinned...

Advocating for Excellence: Stepping Beyond Austerity

Nicole Rege Colet

Nicole Rege Colet

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Higher Education in Austerity Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...In 2011, under Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency, the French government launched an ambitious programme called Investissements d’avenir (Investing in the future) in order to support economic growth and innovation, and to help the nation meet...

Monarchical Autonomy and Societal Transformation

Ann Wainscott

Ann Wainscott

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Reforms in Islamic Education : International Perspectives

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Introduction Analyses of Moroccan politics tend to emphasize the central role of the monarchy in political and economic activities, but a closer look at the actual negotiation of policy over time provides a more varied view...

France: An uncertain and unequal combat

François Madurell

François Madurell

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The Origins and Foundations of Music Education : International Perspectives

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...In his landmark article devoted to ‘L’enseignement musical à l’école’ (‘The teaching of music in the school’), Maurice Chevais (1880–1943) offered an in.d.pth analysis of the situation in France and gave voice to the following hope: May we...

From American dream to nightmare on the left: Student revolts, the ‘crèche sauvage’ and the slums: The University of Nanterre, 1962–71

Victor Collet

Victor Collet

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Utopian Universities : A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...In 1962 Parisian refinement and university modernization were exported to the city’s suburbs. Lacking space in the capital, an autonomous campus based on the North American model carried the support of Gaullist policy makers. Built...

The Challenges of ‘Homo Academicus’: The Making of Self, Identities and a Sense of Fairness and Justice

Romuald Normand

Romuald Normand

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Academic Identities in Higher Education : The Changing European Landscape

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction Homo academicus – with this title French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1988) opened up a Pandora’s box to reveal an academic world that emerges as an environment characterised by conflict, power struggles...

School Segregation in France: The Role of Public Policies and Stakeholder Strategies

Georges Felouzis

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Georges Felouzis

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Barbara Fouquet-Chauprade

Barbara Fouquet-Chauprade

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Samuel Charmillot

Samuel Charmillot

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Understanding School Segregation : Patterns, Causes and Consequences of Spatial Inequalities in Education

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...School segregation in France: an overview From a scientific and policy standpoint, the issue of school segregation is inextricably linked to the analysis of educational policies. With regard to France, it is useful...