Ismail Ferhat

Université Paris Nanterre | UPX · Centre de Recherche Education et Formation (CREF EA 1589)

Religious matters have traditionally been considered as a sensitive subject in French state schools. Since 1989 and the first ‘Muslim headscarf affair’, faith-related conflicts in those institutions have been the subject of a relatively opaque counting policy. Mobilising several state institutions- which alternatively cooperate or compete- this qua...

Student movements during «the Long Sixties» had a profound impact on Western politics and societies. One of the major political families in Western Europe, the social-democratic parties, were particularly affected. A major governmental force in a majority of Western European democracies, their post-war views on education, founded on optimistic and...

Au sein du système éducatif français, la volonté d’éduquer à la laïcité est aujourd’hui largement partagée, tant par les autorités administratives que par les prescripteurs politiques, suscitant de nombreux travaux savants. S’appuyant à la fois sur de nombreuses sources archivistiques et documentaires et sur la notion de “pédagogisation” développée...

Islam has fuelled for several decades fierce debates within French contemporary politics. The specificities of the latter (militant secularism or “laïcité”, republican culture, “color-blind” approach on ethno-cultural issues) could partially explain this level of intensity. Within the French political spectrum, alternative left-wing forces (defined...

Islam has fuelled for several decades fierce debates within French contemporary politics. The specificities of the latter (militant secularism or "laïcité", republican culture, "color-blind" approach on ethno-cultural issues) could partially explain this level of intensity. Within the French political spectrum, alternative left-wing forces (defined...

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The French major teachers union in secondary education, the SNES, have traditionally maintained complex relations with professional education associations. Both organizations shared indeed the same potential members and similar views on professional identities. This perception has led to an ambiguous strategy of the union towards these associations...

Leftist Organisations and Educational Reforms: Treatment by the Social Sciences of a Complex Couple How have social sciences analysed the relationship between leftist organisations in general and educational reform (understood as the desire to transform the educational system)? This paper focuses on the bibliography on this topic. There have been f...

Pour les socialistes français, la laïcité (c’est-à-dire de la stricte séparation entre Etat et religions) est un enjeu central, tant dans leurs programmes que dans les politiques publiques qu’ils ont menées. C’est en particulier autour de l’école que s’est noué ce rapport spécifique entre ce courant politique et cette notion. Or, en 1959, le gouver...

School, defined here as the education system, is an important issue for the French government left-wing parties. That knowledge is a condition of emancipation is a common feature of those political forces. However, there was no consensus on perceptions of school and on education policies to be implemented. The Communists have had their own agenda o...

For most of the 20th century, French Socialists were deeply influenced by “laïcité”, or militant secularism, that was to become a cornerstone of their identity. They were cautious, even reluctant, to share common grounds with the “progressive Christians”, a small minority that had emerged from the catholic community in the fifties. As the Parti soc...

By the analysis of the peculiar link connecting teachers’ trade-unionism and socialism, the contribution aims at throwing light on the difficulties of a French path toward social democracy, that supposes a strong articulation between the two elements. In spite of a deep sharing of ideas and intense personal connections, a reformism defended by trad...