Golden and confined youth: When preparatory school students tell their stories.
Topics: Social Geography
, Cultural Geography
, Education
Keywords: microgeography, lockdown diaries, students
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Sunday
Session Start / End Time: 2/27/2022 08:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/27/2022 09:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 74
Authors:
Catherine Didier-Fèvre, EVS UMR 5600
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Abstract
In the context of a remote geography course on literary CPGE, hypokhâgne's students, in 2020, kept for eleven weeks lockdown and end of lockdown diaries. These texts were shared on the class drive accessible to all the members. This writing assignment, imposed in a school setting, aimed at getting them to reflect on the microgeographical scale of this unprecedented experience: spatial devices used to (re)find their place in a family dwelling between constraining school work and the daily life of a closed family.
These diaries of different formats (texts, poems, selected quotations, sound and/or video recordings, photographic images, playlists, plans, models, etc.) constitute the unpublished ethnographic materials of an emerging reflection on students' lack of mobility and the resources used to overcome the imposed constraints and to allow for the process of secondary socialization; which characterizes this type of higher education. The microgeographical dimension of the productions, halfway between the diary and the staging of the self, can be found in the productions of a particular sociological sample: that of the public of preparatory classes, and more particularly that of a "golden youth" enrolled in a private literary preparatory class.
Golden and confined youth: When preparatory school students tell their stories.
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