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Introduction to the Open File

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  1. Unit for Educational Research (SRED), Geneva, Switzerland

    Norberto Bottani (Director)

  2. SRED, Geneva, Switzerland

    Bernard Favre (Researcher in the sociology of education)

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Original language: French

Taught educational science in Italian-speaking Switzerland before contributing to a national education research policy and the development of Swiss involvement in international activities. Between 1976 and 1997 he was in charge of research programmes at OECD, where he ran the international education indicators programme, edited the series ‘Education at a glance: OECD indicators’ and produced the first edition ofEducation policy analysis. Education policies are his main centre of interest. Recently co-editedIn pursuit of equity in education: using international indicators to compare equity policies (2001).

He has focused on the evaluation of innovations in schools, relations between families and schools, and the analysis of school communities. He is currently working on an analysis of primary education reform in Geneva and a research project on the socialization of children and young adults in and out of school in a working-class district. His recent publications includeLes écoles primaires genevoises [Geneva’s primary schools] (to be published), with Françoise Osiek.

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Bottani, N., Favre, B. Introduction to the Open File. Prospects 31, 467–474 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03220033

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