Centre de recherche interuniversitaire EXPERICE
Université Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité
Biographical research in situations and dialogues. Issues and perspectives
International Congress
co-organized by
Collège International de Recherche Biographique en Éducation (CIRBE)
Revue Le sujet dans la Cité. Revue internationale de recherche biographique
Laboratoire CIREL — Université de Lille
Laboratoire LIRTES – Université Paris-Est Créteil
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Historische Anthropologie, Freie Universität, Berlin
Équipe GRAFHO – Universidade do Estado da Bahia Brésil
Équipe ANHIVIF – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Brésil
in association with
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord
ASIHVIF (Association internationale des histoires de vie en formation
et de recherche biographique en éducation)
Laboratoire BONHEURS – Université Cergy Pontoise
Université des patients - Université Pierre et Marie Curie
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Following the Lille symposium (May 2011) dedicated to the "issues and perspectives" of biographical research, this conference aims to continue the exploration of a paradigm of the biographical in education, understood as much in the contextual and situational diversity of empirical research that it generates as in the epistemological and methodological questions the creation of a "science of the singular" keeps raising.
This project justifies the chosen perspective: through the various territories and the individual and collective situations in which biographical research in education develops its work, it is a matter of deepening its epistemological and methodological foundations, as well as its ethical and political stance. This project goes along with approaches in different scientific fields which sharing with biographical research the study of the constitution and individual experience, question the conditions, terms and effects of this "knowledge of the singular ".
This proposal is divided into five main parts, each of which focuses on burning question pertaining to today’s biographical research tackled throught the notions of "biographical condition", "biographical mediality" and "biographical education", "collective action" and "epistemology of the singular". In the title of each part the choice of the plural in the use of these notions responds to the desire to subject them to the test of the dialectical relationship between singularization and pluralization of the individual and collective experiences they encompass. The papers submitted will fall into these different parts according to the entry and perspective chosen.
This proposal could be divided into five main parts, each of which focuses on burning question pertaining to today’s biographical research tackled throught the notions of "biographical condition", "biographical mediality" and "biographical education", "collective action" and "epistemology of the singular". In the title of each part the choice of the plural in the use of these notions responds to the desire to subject them to the test of the dialectical relationship between singularization and pluralization of the individual and collective experiences they encompass. The papers submitted will fall into these different parts according to the entry and perspective chosen.