https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-value-of-school https://booksandideas.net/The-value-of-school 2026-02-26T08:30:00Z text/html en Nassim El Kabli Society liberalism schooling autonomy Cairn.info <p>School is mandatory and fully justified in being so. Educational authority in no way impairs freedom, provided it focuses on developing students' multiple capacities.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Empowering-Marginalized-Youth https://booksandideas.net/Empowering-Marginalized-Youth 2025-05-30T06:57:14Z text/html en Editorial Team International inequalities discrimination schooling formation <span class="caps">CASBS</span> <p>As a professor of education, Bianca Baldridge highlights the importance of extracurricular programs for young people, and the lack of social recognition enjoyed by community-based educators.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Leroy-Sociologie-pedagogies-alternatives https://booksandideas.net/Leroy-Sociologie-pedagogies-alternatives 2024-03-26T08:58:54Z text/html en Benoît Peuch Society schooling childhood teaching Cairn.info <p>Educating children by respecting their spontaneous interests: Such is the promise of alternative pedagogies. Subjecting these promises to sociological critique, Ghislain Leroy shows that they are not necessarily emancipatory and may even contribute to the reproduction of social inequalities.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Reynaud-Paligot-L-Ecole-aux-colonies https://booksandideas.net/Reynaud-Paligot-L-Ecole-aux-colonies 2023-06-20T14:45:05Z text/html en Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch History Colonialism race schooling Algeria republic Cairn.info <p>What motivated French colonisers to found schools in the Maghreb and Subsaharan Africa? Carole Reynaud-Paligot shows how their superiority complex ended up overcoming their meritocratic ideals and dreams of diversity.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Little-Society-of-Children https://booksandideas.net/The-Little-Society-of-Children 2018-01-18T08:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Sallée Society schooling childhood Institut français socialization <p>How do children perceive the world around them, from the circles closest to them – their friends and family – to the most distant spheres – work and politics? In a recent book, two French sociologists open up a critical dialogue with psychology to describe the socially differentiated processes through which children learn to think and think about themselves.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Schooling-Ideals-and-Student-Culture-the-Case-of-India https://booksandideas.net/Schooling-Ideals-and-Student-Culture-the-Case-of-India 2015-05-25T05:30:00Z text/html en Stephanie Leder education national identity nationalism schooling India <p>How are citizenship values translated into schooling processes in India? Rich ethnographies reveal how diversely students perceive, reproduce and subvert schooling intentions in a highly stratified society under the influence of peer cultures, media and marketing.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Chicago-and-Paris-2-2 https://booksandideas.net/Chicago-and-Paris-2-2 2012-04-27T06:49:12Z text/html en Marco Oberti Society France United States of America education the elite schooling positive discrimination segregation Florence Gould Foundation <p>French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United States, a comparative study of current trends in Paris and Chicago show the opacity of the selection criteria in Paris, and the existence of a clear geographical segregation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Two-cities-with-School-Segregation https://booksandideas.net/Two-cities-with-School-Segregation 2012-04-26T15:36:08Z text/html en Marco Oberti Society Carousel France United States of America education the elite schooling diversity positive discrimination segregation Institut français <p>French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United States, a comparative study of current trends in Paris and Chicago show the opacity of the selection criteria in Paris, and the existence of a clear geographical segregation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Gangs-of-Paris-or-Thereabout https://booksandideas.net/Gangs-of-Paris-or-Thereabout 2012-01-31T08:47:07Z text/html en Michel Kokoreff Society France race schooling suburbs popular culture Institut français <p>Youth gangs are often discussed but rarely investigated. In an ethnographic study that examines families, schools, and the street, sociologist Marwan Mohammed reconstructs the principles according to which these groups are formed in the Paris region.</p>