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05 SES 05, Children's Perspectives on Safety, Failure/Success and Education
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Contribution
This paper is a contribution from the research project "Re-thinking the concept of success and failure in Secondary school: an analysis of the relation of young people with Savoire" (EDU2008-03287), a three year long research started in 2008. The research tries to contribute in developing new ways of understanding Secondary School students’ success and failure through the study of their relationship with different forms of knowledge inside and outside school. The main focus is the exploration of the relation that both successful and un-successful students develop with the Savoir. We consider Savoir as the learning process linked with the identity of the learner. Charlot (1992:80) has defined this relation as meaningful; as a valuable relation between an individual or a group and the process and products of savoir. A relation with savoir is a relation between a subject and the world, the self and others. It is a relation with a series of activities, and also, it is localized in time, as a space for activities (Charlot, 1992:78). When we study students’ relationships with different savoir experiences, we are trying to understand how each research collaborator cops with the need and the duty of learning in a shared world. Doing research on this relationship means representing and analyzing the symbolic, active and temporal relations of a singular subject who is inserted in social relationships (Vadeboncoueur & Patel Stevens, 2005).
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References
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