School vocational counselling is not (always) synonymous with educational demotion
Whilst both extending and then distancing herself from the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Paul Willis, Géraldine André reconnects with a tradition which had become a little lost in the sociology of education over the course of transformations within the educational system: the analysis of social classes. For her the cultural references of the working classes more than ever fashions the choices made by the teenagers. As much as the family sphere, which enables an understanding of why an individual adopts an attitude of resistance, openness, conformity or accommodation as regards the school. Behind the scenes of Board of StudiesBut because it would ‘be far too simple to restrict ourselves to stating that the young pupils choose their orientation,’ Géraldine André, in the second part of her book, looked into the role of the school authorities by following for several months their various Board of Studies meetings and giving a voice to the teachers of three institutions. ‘I was very surprised to observe that, contrary to what the public policies have to say about it, the teachers in reality ask themselves many questions. Their ideological representations, specific to the middle classes, push them to consider that it is necessary to stay in the general programme for as long as possible. They thus try to hand out an AOB as late as possible. For them, having to make decisions on orientations raises moral problems. It’s a really dirty job.’ |
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