Overall topic: a renewal of the political link in education

• Social issues to be rethought and reelaborated at scientific level

- An inclusive approach: rethinking the ideal of justice in the context of globalisation;
- Universalism and plurality of cultures;
- Knowledge, culture and childhood policies in a changing school form: Curricular changes, aesthetic dimension and mass education.

• The new watchwords: a study of some instruments or bearers of the new world views

- The history of political rhetoric in education;
- Measurement policies;
- Circulation of knowledge between research, policy and practice.

• Contracts, calls for tenders, etc.

- European network of experts in the social sciences of education and training (NESSE)

- Cross discipline work “Techniques, Terrains, Théories”
Building local expertise in the field of public policies: design, circulation and translation of measurement instruments.

- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Education, training and employment. Measurement policies in a knowledge society (POLMESURE).

- Pôle Rhône-Alpes Orientation (PRAO)
Monitoring innovative networks in the field of lifelong guidance policies.

- Mutuelle Générale de l’Éducation Nationale (MGEN)
Partnership on the issues of health, work-related suffering and teachers’ quest for recognition.

- Centre National d’Éducation à Distance (CNED)
Monitoring changing regulation modes and the experimented of new practice in the distant accreditation of experiential learning.

• International networks

- Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF)
International association of French-speaking sociologists. Research committee n°7 (Education, Training and Socialisation)

- International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE)

• The Paul Lapie centre “Architecture and Education”