Représentations de la diversité intranationale chez des chercheurs en éducation, analyse de productions scientifiques

• Published in: Psihologia sociala 2016, Vol.2 (38), p.35-44
• Main Author: Arneton, Melissa
• Format: Article
• Language: fre ; rum
• Subjects: Education; Humanities and Social Sciences; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Psychology; Researchers; Science; Social Sciences; Students
• ISSN: 1454-5667

School is a privileged place to study the relations between culture transmitted by the institution and the family, and comportments, attitudes and representations of educational phenomena among students. Because of the interactions between scientific discourses, political orientations and recommendations about school particularly in the context of combatting discriminations and school inequalities, it is interesting to study the epistemology used by researchers who work on the populations or the natives of the French overseas departments (Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Mayotte and Reunion). This study aims to deconstmct and to understand the links between overseas' cultures and education based on the analysis of the methodology used in 15 scientific publications. Those are identified in literature platforms as articles linked to the academic achievement and to the variable "from an oversea department". Usually the students or natives of overseas' department are either considered as a part of the national school data or as a part of the data about the migrants. The epistemological positioning of researchers is tackled from the methodological inquiries in articles published in different journals in educational sciences since 2005. The discussion proposes critical reflections about the intricacy of methodological and conceptual choices made by the researchers concerning the educational cultural environment. It mentions in particular the absence, in contemporaneous studies, of the connections between variables operationalizing the school achievement with a socio-critical analysis of the power relations which occur at school, and with the relative absence of the issue of intranational diversity.