Territorialization of Education: Trend or Necessity

From the Foreword
…To raise the question of the progressive territorialization of education after long periods of political and societal change is ultimately, let us recall, a question of the values and aims of education in all its complexity (Reboul 1992).
This original multidisciplinary book, which refines and completes the research previously undertaken on the theme of “education and territory” – including the first book in the ISTE Ltd “Education” set of books entitled Evolutions of the Complex Relationship Between Education and Territories (Barthes, Champollion and Alpe) published in 2018 – opens up new and fruitful perspectives, avenues and paths, complementary to each other, on this important issue, including from angles that have not been addressed to date.
This applies, in particular, to the construction and evolution of the symbolic territories at work in education (understood through school representations) and their consequences, the many interrelationships with the digital world
(posed as a possible deterritorialization), the school’s consideration of disability (usually treated as extra-territorialized), the construction of identity in the context of the school (recontextualized in the territory of exercise), etc.
We have learned a lot thanks to our respective authors.
Angela BARTHES
ADEF – Aix-Marseille University