Crises dans et hors l'école en France

For decades, the French school system has been portrayed in public debate as an institution in crisis. Tough hiring conditions, deleterious working conditions, loss of meaning, widening inequalities, hasty reforms, stagnation, "falling standards", dilution of authority, rising violence and separatism are all symptoms of a school in “crisis”, which appears profoundly weakened in its missions and functioning, under the effect of contemporary social mutations and the multiple tensions associated with them. Taking the term crisis seriously, this book brings together contributions from researchers who shed light on the difficulties facing the educational institution, based on available data and field surveys. It provides keys to understanding the tensions, debates and contemporary challenges facing the French school system, and puts the crises it faces into a socio-historical perspective.