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Empowerment or the managerialisation of the teaching profession ?

2016

International audience; Transformations were introduced in France in order to better balance relationships between the professionals in education and its end users. It was meant to allow the right to inspect the school institution as well as to offer wider decision making powers regarding the schooling of children. For example, parents can contest suggestions for repeating a school year. To do so, they may call upon an 'arbitrator' from the Ministry of Education if and when they disagree with school practices. In a broader sense, they have to formulate the request themselves and ask for the child's integration into a 'special' unit to pupils with learning difficulties. A series of measures …