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Diversité is a biannual interface journal in the field of the humanities and social sciences, particularly educational research. Created in 1973 under the title Migrants formation, then Ville, école et intégration (VEI), it is now supported and published by the Institut français de l'éducation (IFÉ) of the ENS de Lyon.

Issues 1973 to 2020 are available on Persée.

Latest issue
206 | 2025
L’éducation populaire : une école de l’émancipation ?

Popular education: an emancipation school?
Edited by Régis Guyon and Francis Lebon

What is popular education? What kind of education is it? And what are people, and how do they express themselves here? Are we talking about an education that focuses on individuals as citizens in the making, with the aim of transforming the world and society, but also of building active and committed citizens? This raises the question of the content, knowledge and methods of popular education, and how they relate to and complement those of school education.

The fact remains, however, that this lack of clarity enables it to potentially designate a wide range of social and cultural activities, extending from after-school childcare to the political arena, via the worlds of culture, social work and sport (Lebon, 2020, pp. 15–19). Whether we adopt an extensive definition of popular education (it’s everywhere, confused with “non-formal education” according to the European understanding) or a narrow one (it corresponds to a few places: leisure centers, social centers, training organizations, etc.), many questions remain debated (Lebon, Lescure, 2016). Does popular education relate to schools? Children or adults? The political and trade union field or just the associative world and the professions of animation?

To answer these questions, the dossier is structured around 4 themes:
1. Popular education: what are we talking about?
2. Organizations and articulations in the field of education
3. Knowledge and educational practices
4. The commitment of young people and professionals

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