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		Abstracts		Programme - Complete Program here (pdf file)
		Conference Themes		International Standing Working Groups
		Conference Location and Dates		Organizing Committee

ISCHE XXIV Paris, July 9-13 2002
SECONDARY EDUCATION
Institutional, Cultural et Social History

Secondary education, the history of which is generally far from being studied as much as primary and higher education, is yet a very rich subject. In the past, secondary education used to give a general education and a common culture to the future social elite. In more democratic societies, where education for all has become an economic asset as well as a right, it had and it still has to adapt to mass education, by diversifying or by offering a new culture, and new methods to pass it on. The historical interest as well as the present stakes of this question have led ISCHE 24's organizing committee to propose the theme of secondary education, in the broadest sense of the word — any post-elementary education aimed at teenagers — without chronological or geographical limits. On the occasion of the bicentenary of the creation of lycées, ISCHE 24 will take place in France where secondary education — organized and controlled by the state — has long represented the core of the educational system. It may be the starting point of comparative reflections on the following themes :

1. Political, institutional, administrative history :

• The role of the national state, local authorities and churches.
• Coexistence of a public and a private sector.
• Strategic, administrative and pedagogical autonomy of schools.
  

    2. Schools and school communities as subjects of study :

• How to deal with schools as a historical subject ?
• School community : that of teachers and pupils.
• Sociology of the pupils: school status, social position, gender.
  

    3. Teachers:

• Recruitment, careers, working and living conditions.
• Teachers as a professional group.
• Secularization, specialization, feminization.
  

    4. Models and curricula :

• Social elite and meritocracy.
• The policies of meritocracy : scholarships, ranking, competitive examinations.
• Discrimination and affirmative action.
• Humanistic and realistic models.

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Three keynote addresses will be provided in plenary sessions, in French or in English, with simultaneous translation from one language into the other. The keynote speakers are :

The three ISCHE international standing working groups will meet during ISCHE 24 conference :

• International Standing Working Group on Gender. Organizer : Ruth Watts.
  
  
• International Standing Working Group on Cross-Cultural Influences in History of Education.
  Organizers : Marc Depaepe, Klaus-Peter Horn, Christoph Lueth.
  
  
• ISWG RESEAU (Studies and Researches on Teachers Unions and University Associations).
  Organizers : André Robert, Jeffrey Tyssens. Presentation text

Registration

The conference fee is 285 euros, and includes :
- Attendance to plenary and parallel seminar sessions.
- The conference abstract book and documentation.
- The Conference Book.
- Attendance to cultural and social events.
- Coffee breaks and lunches.
- Welcome reception.

The accompanying person fee is 210 euros, and includes:
- Attendance to cultural and social activities.
- Coffee breaks and lunches.
- Welcome reception.

Participation in conference banquet: 40 euros.

President : Philippe Savoie, Service d'histoire de l'éducation (SHE)
Secretary General : Marie-Madeleine Compère, SHE

Jean-Noël Luc, professeur d’histoire contemporaine, Université Paris IV
Pierre Caspard, directeur du SHE
Alain Carry, CNRS - Centre Roland Mousnier, Université Paris IV
Annie Bruter, SHE