Physical Education Seminar, 2020–2021 Theme

The theme of the upcoming “Education-Politics-Society” seminars is

A Series of Crises, or a Crisis of Globalization? What Are the Implications for Educational Research?

The links below provide various references, and the scientific project outlined below is intended to spark a discussion that will lead to a collaborative project.

More information will follow regarding the practical arrangements for the next session and the related logistics…

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Readings available for download at:https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=f199bcdb-5a3f-476c-852f-f2af3ae01260

Scientific Project

A Series of Crises, or a Crisis of Globalization? What Are the Implications for Educational Research?

The proliferation of crises in which we are becoming increasingly entangled calls for us to renew our epistemological frameworks in order to foster a holistic way of thinking. Indeed, it seems less and less conceivable to separate the environmental, health, social, and economic spheres, as demonstrated by the work conducted, for example, by the socio-anthropologist F. Keck on recent and current pandemics:

https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-frederic-keck.html

or economist Eloi Laurent, for whom weighing health against the economy is an epistemologically outdated fallacy and politically absurd:

https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-eloi-laurent.html

This is how, for example, the “One Health” movement is currently emerging as an integrated approach to ecosystem, environmental, and human health (Globalization of Health Risks, 2011),championed in particular by B. De Sousa Santos in Brazil through the epistemologies of the South (De Sousa Santos, B., *The Epistemologies of the South*, Citizen Movements and Controversies Surrounding Science, Desclée de Brauwer, 2016); De Sousa Santos, B.,*The End of the Cognitive Empire*, London, University of Cambridge Press, 2018), or by J. Descarpentries in France (*Sortir de la ligne de crête: Résister, Responsabiliser, Anticiper, Coopérer*, E&S, Soumis, 2020).

This work and these approaches resonate with those carried out by researchers who, at the intersection of philosophy and anthropology, explore the relationship between nature and culture. These “ecosophers” (see profiles in the attachment) call for a holistic way of thinking that (re)articulates local knowledge and practices, encouraging us to rethink territoriality at its various local scales.

The scientific reflections (in the social sciences and humanities) by Bon and Larrère (2018) on the implications of the Anthropocene, as well as those by the geographer Lussault on the themes of “Inhabiting the World” and “Territorial Care,” are part of this same line of thought.

More generally, an overview of the“crisis” category anda call for a major shift are extensively documented in the book*Bifurquer. Il n’a pas d’alternative* (edited by Bernard Stiegler in collaboration with theInternation collective, Les liens qui libèrent, 2020; see attached back cover)

On the one hand, these crises prompt us to reflect collectively on the changes that are desirable and/or sought after, as well as on our roles as researchers (see, for example, the work of Daniel Curnier, and that of Barthes and Lange; slides attached); and on the other hand, they prompt us to question our epistemologies.