Les élèves de l'élite scolaire

Une Autonomie Sous Contrôle Familial

Bibliographic Data

ID3828152
AuthorsCarole Daverne, Yves Dutercq
Year2009
Volume8
Issue8
Pages17-36
Publication date2009-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers de la recherche sur l éducation et les savoirs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1635-3544 • E-ISSN: 2265-7762
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/cres.527
OpenAlexW1543238236
LanguageFR
Citations received5
References cited15

Our article studies how the very good students of French high schools build their higher education careers at a time of uncertainty and hard competition concerning access to high quality qualification and professional status. The findings of our research regarding the students in the final year of secondary school or in the preparatory classes for “grandes écoles”, reveal that parents from different social milieu are deeply involved in the construction of the career’s choices of their children. Parents follow their children’s career since their very young age in a strategic manner through schooling initiatives and a “pedagogisation” of leisure. More precisely, our study bears witness to parents’ control, which is replaced lately by students’ autonomy regarding their learning process and their career’s choices, as well as students’ responsibility, self-confidence and personal fulfilling. This dominant model presents two configurations according to students’ social status in search of individual and professional gratification

Humanities · Political science · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Social Policies and Family · Social Sciences and Governance · Philosophy

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