La place des établissements scolaires en France sous la Ve République: une recomposition parallèle des formes de la justice et des formes de l'État (1959-2009)

Abstract

This article proposes a study about the role and the place of schools when looking at the three last education Acts that lead french education system. Its goal is to argue that those Acts correspond to a parallel recomposition of the justice and the State forms. The education system modernisation Act of 1975 (Loi de modernisation du système éducatif) tries to built an objective of equality of chances that corresponds to an Welfare-state in a centralized even authoritarian organization. The orientation of education Act (Loi d¿orientation de l'éducation) of 1989 prosecutes the same equality goal but put it on practice in a de-concentrated system whose regulation was supported by a contract between the families' project and the schools' project. The orientation and programmation Act (Loi d'orientation et de programmation) of 2005 reassumes that preoccupation about the respect of the users' rights and brings an obligation of results that corresponds to a managerial perspective of the State.