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Goastellec, Gaele
- Head, Higher Education Research Unit
- University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- France
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| Gaële Goastellec is currently
head of the politics and organizations of higher
education research unit at the Observatory Science
Politic and Society, University of Lausanne in Switzerland,
where she has just been appointed. She will pursue
there her comparative studies on the politics and
territories of Higher Education, with a specific
focus on the admission process to higher education.
Her PhD in sociology (12/2002, University of Bordeaux,
France) dealt with this specific dimension through
the comparison of three countries (France, Indonesia,
United States), in regard to Nation building. A
postdoctoral award by the French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (Bourse Lavoisier, 2004-2005) and in collaboration
with the University of the Witwatersrand' Graduate
School of Public and Development Management (Johannesburg),
has lead to the analysis of a fourth case, declining
the questions of the admission responsibility and
international strategies in higher education policies
ion South Africa. Dr Goastellec is researcher associated
to the CADIS-CNRS Paris, (Center for Sociological
analysis and intervention), and the LAPSAC (Laboratory
for the analysis of social problems and collective
action, Bordeaux) and member of the International
Association of Sociology (RC 47 Social Class and
Social Movements).
Selected Publications
- "South African Higher Education at the
crossroad of territories." LESEDI,
Johannesburg, June 2005.
- " Les mouvements étudiants: une
production de l'institution? Une comparaison
Etat-Unis, Indonésie, France " in
Institution universitaire et mouvements étudiants
: entre intégration et rupture, (ouvrage
collectif du GERME), L'Harmattan, décembre
2004.
- " Entre politique des quotas et égalité:
L'Université de Californie à Berkeley
", Cahiers internationaux de Sociologie,
Vol. 116, janvier- juin 2004.
- "Le SAT et l'accès aux études
supérieures: le recrutement des élites
américaines en question", Sociologie
du Travail vol. 45, N°4/2003.
- " D'un multiculturalisme l'autre: les
politiques universitaires et la justice sociale:
une comparaison Etats-Unis-Indonésie
" in G. Felouzis (dir), Les mutations
actuelles de l'Université, Paris,
P.U.F., octobre 2003.
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| Equity Revisited by the Protagonists
of the Admission Process to Higher Education: Toward
a Comparative Analysis Model
The research project is part of a larger research
program exploring the issues of admission to Higher
education in regard to social justice and nation
building in a comparative and international perspective.
Is it necessary to redress social inequalities
through the admission process to Higher Education?
Why do some tertiary institutions do so while
others forbid it? Who decides of the admission
process, how and why? The admission process does
not only influence the student ability to give
a meaning to his studies. It also participates
in the building up of a specific society and reveals
its situation on the international scene as well
as the international diffusion of some tools,
and, maybe, of a common definition of equality.
The specific research proposed for the NCS program
covers the part comparing South African, French
and US approach to admission to Higher Education.
It focuses on the protagonists of the admission
process in order to built up a model to analyze
how the admission responsibility is (re)distributed,
(re)negotiated, and its effects in recognizing
or denying the necessity to compensate social
inequalities. It will involve a multidisciplinary
perspective by covering current researches on
higher education and political-philosophical discourses
on equality in the three countries. A qualitative
fieldwork will take place in tertiary institutions
in the US and France, and be confronted to the
researches pursued at the New York University
under the supervision of professor Richard Richardson,
Director of the Alliance for International Higher
Education Policy Studies. With the collaboration
of the Fulbright fellows who works on these themes,
we will contribute to building up an international
understanding of how equality is negotiated through
admission processes and will provide instruments
for their improvement.
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