Units

Sociology of Education

Les recherches menées dans le Centre s'articulent autour de 3 axes: 1°) la sociologie critique de l'éducation centrée sur la question des inégalités scolaires (travaux de Daniel Vander Gucht et d'Anne Van Haecht sur les investissements éducatifs des familles en Communauté française de Belgique); 2°) la sociologie constructiviste interactionniste (travaux de Claude Javeau et de Daniel Vander Gucht oeuvrant pour la constitution d'une socio-anthropologie de la petite enfance; de Philippe Vienne sur les violences à l'école); 3° l'analyse comparée des politiques d'éducation et de formation professionnelle, plus ancrée dans les sciences politiques (Anne Van Haecht, Lamia Mechbal et Philippe Vienne)

Projetcs

Educational innovation in disadvantaged schools in Brussels

The research aims at inquiring into innovative practices in disadvantaged schools in Brussels, especially in those enrolling a majority of migrants' children. It seeks to define the issues and the evolution of educational policies towards this school population to clear up the field of educational innovation, to identify and analyse innovations and their consequences, innovating and implied social actors.

Educational investments of families in the French Community of Belgium.

Based upon empirically collected figures the research aims at inquiring about the material investments of families in the fields of schooling and extra-schooling market of trainings, sporting equipments, cultural and associations related activities, etc. ; the quality of parents-children relationships ; the evaluation of needs relating to education and child-sitting ; the modalities of children education follow-up.

A sociological comparison of school policies in Western Europe.

The research aims at comparing school related policies in Western Europe, and is based on an analysis of public policies which is itself resting upon a ''Centre-Periphery'' tension, as it is now redifining itself in many European countries to-day