Histoire de l'éducation, n°164/2025

Collecter, archiver, exploiter des sources orales en histoire de l'éducation

Edited by Bénédicte Girault

Collecting, Archiving, and Reusing Oral Sources in the History of Education

The use of interviews and the creation of oral resources have become standard practices among historians of education. They also frequently draw on the resources created by the oral archives programme of the Service d'histoire de l'éducation, funded by the Institut national de recherche pédagogique in the 1990s, in a context conducive to large-scale collective surveys and institutional heritage collections. After the golden age of collecting, the time has now come for these archives to be exploited and analysed on a secondary basis by researchers who did not produce them. By revisiting the history of this collection and its uses, this dossier explores the relevance of these questions today and confronts the diversity of research practices and disciplinary as well as archival perspectives. Born of a collective reflection on the role of interviews in historical writing and educational research, it also seeks to support archiving practices within individual and collective research projects. By addressing the methodological, legal, and ethical issues related to the patrimonialization of oral sources, this issue invites the scholarly community to envision an open and shared archival hub dedicated to the history of education.

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Bénédicte Girault
Archives orales et histoire de l'éducation
Oral Sources and the History of Education

Florence Descamps
Créer une nouvelle source pour l'historien du futur. Les archives orales du Service d'histoire de l'éducation, xx^e-xxi^e siècles
Creating New Resource for Future Historians. The Oral Archives of the History of Education Department: 20th-21th centuries

Xavier Pons
Enquêter sur les inspecteurs généraux à partir d'archives orales : analyse secondaire d’une recherche sociologique
Investigating General Inspectors of Education through Oral Archives: A Secondary Analysis of a Sociological Research

Étienne Bordes
Le doctorant et les présidents : faire une histoire orale de la Conférence des présidents d'université (1971-2007)
Making an Oral History of the Conférence des présidents d’université (1971-2007)

Bénédicte Girault
L’ENA à la conquête de la rue de Grenelle. La mémoire du secrétaire général Pierre Laurent dans les archives orales du Service d’histoire de l’éducation
The ENA’s Conquest of the Rue de Grenelle. The Memory of General Secretary Pierre Laurent in the Oral Archives of the Service d’histoire de l’éducation

Sources, ressources et analyses

Denise Barriolade
Une collecte de témoignages auprès de fonctionnaires atypiques : les personnels techniques et pédagogiques de jeunesse et d’éducation populaire
A Collection of Testimonials with Atypical Civil Servants: The Technical and Educational Staff of Youth, and Popular Education

Cécile Fabris et Martine Sin Blima-Barru
Agir dès la collecte pour garantir l’accès aux sources orales : l’approche des Archives nationales
Taking Action at the Collection Stage to Ensure Access to Oral Sources: How the French National Archives Proceeds

Varia

Simon Catros
Enseigner le « sentiment religieux » et les « devoirs envers Dieu ». Institutrices et instituteurs face aux prescriptions du programme de morale (1882-1923)
Teaching 'Religious Sentiment’ and 'Duties to God’. The Position of Primary School Teachers with Respect to the Dictates of the Morality Program (1882-1923)

Emma Papadacci
Une communauté scolaire transnationale façonnée par le deuil de masse ? Le jumelage entre l’Elliott Central School de Londres et l’école J.-B. Say à Paris (1913-1930)
A Transnational School Community Shaped by Mass Mourning? The Twinning between Elliott Central School in London and the École J. B. Say in Paris (1913-1930)

Actualités de la recherche internationale
Lyse Roy et Cédric Champagne

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