A Review of Recent Research on the History of Universities and Students in France
| Autor | Pierre Moulinier |
| Cargo | Student Movement Studies and Research Group (GERME) |
| Páginas | 141-161 |
CIAN-Revista de Historia de las Universidades, 20/1 (2017), 141-161 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.20318/cian.2017.3731
ISSN: 1988-8503 - www.uc3m.es/cian
A Review of Recent Research on the History
of Universities and Students in France
Pierre Moulinier*
Student Movement Studies and Research Group (GERME)
[Groupe d’études et de recherche sur les mouvements étudiants]
Recibido
Aceptado
Un repaso a las recientes investigaciones en Historia
de las Universidades y sus estudiantes en Francia
Abstract In France the active commu
nity of researchers studying education and
young people usually focus their research on
children and adolescents while research on
education is limited to elementary schooling
Yet research on the history of French univer
sities and the student population does exist
The higher education reform introduced af
ter the student revolt swept away the
early th century Napoleonic model of a
university based on the primacy of speciali
zed faculties the humanities science medi
cine law pharmacy but endowed with little
power a transformation that inspired some
important research on the general history of
French universities and also on the history
of certain provincial universities Numerous
monographs describe the new post es
tablishments or mark the anniversary of an
older even medieval institution Some pro
mising research has also been undertaken on
Resumen En Francia la comunidad
activa de investigadores que estudian la edu
cación y sus jóvenes suele centrar su investi
gación en niños y adolescentes mientras que
la investigación en educación se limita a la
enseñanza primaria Sin embargo existen in
vestigaciones sobre la historia de las universi
dades francesas y la población estudiantil La
reforma de la educación superior introducida
después de la revuelta estudiantil de
barrió el modelo napoleónico del siglo XIX de
una universidad basada en la primacía de las
facultades especializadas las humanidades
la ciencia la medicina el derecho la farma
cia pero dotada de poco poder una transfor
mación que inspiró algunas investigaciones
importantes sobre la historia general de las
universidades francesas y también sobre la
historia de ciertas universidades provinciales
Numerosas monograías describen los nuevos
establecimientos posteriores a o marcan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20318/cian.2017.3731
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CIAN, 20/1 (2017), 141-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20318/cian.2017.3731
PIERRE MOULINIER
the history of students a relatively new topic
and one that will beneit from the creativity
of dedicated research organizations
Keywords history of faculties history
of universities history of students students
associations the higher education reform
el aniversario de una institución medieval más
antigua También se han realizado algunas in
vestigaciones prometedoras sobre la historia
de los estudiantes un tema relativamente nue
vo y que se beneiciará de la creatividad de las
organizaciones dedicadas a la investigación
Palabras clave Historia de las faculta
des historia de las universidades historia de
los estudiantes asociaciones de estudiantes la
reforma de la educación superior
The university question has prompted research on a wide range of sub
jects including universities academic policies higher education university
buildings and institutions school curricula and programs male and female
students professors openings after graduation university towns etc not
to mention the history of French intellectual life Those involved in these re
search projects are sociologists and political scientists and yet according to
the sociologist Georges Felouzis higher education which is a classic subject
of sociology is seldom considered a distinct subject of research in France
and taught as such This is especially true in the case of history The ma
jority of historians studying education and teaching in France concentrate
on primary and secondary school education rather than on universities and
students despite specialized structures such as RESUP Higher Education
Research Network Organizational Sociology Centre Réseau détudes sur
lenseignement supérieur Centre de sociologie des organisations who
se members are mostly sociologists political scientists and economists or
GERME Student Movement Studies and Research Group Groupe détudes
sur les mouvements étudiants where historians are predominant
The special issue of Le Mouvement social on Scientiic and acade
mic changes in France since OctoberDecember published an
editorial by three researchers including Antoine Prost deploring the lack
of even the most elementary knowledge of these subjects We are mis
taken they write in supposing that we know the history of universities
and research institutions First they point to the gap between our scientiic
knowledge and our knowledge of universities Most universities were unable
For example George Felouzis Les mutations actuelles de lUniversité Paris Presses uni
versitaires de France
JeanMichel Chapoulie et Patrick Fridenson et Antoine Prost Jalons pour une histoire
sociale de la science et des établissements denseignement supérieur en France depuis
Le Mouvement social OctoberDecember
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