Une socialisation à l’esprit d’entreprise dans l’école en France

Abstract

Schools and companies have grown closer in direct correlation with a public action policy called ‘partnership’. In this way, the number of agreements with the Ministry of National Education, Rectorats (French local education authorities) or schools and associations, for the most part linked to large companies/corporations, has increased. One of these associations is setting up mini-companies in junior secondary schools and high schools as well as start-ups in universities. It aims to convey «the corporate spirit» in order to boost young people’s chances of integrating the workforce. We shall analyze, herein, this connection process between the school/academic environment and the corporate world using observations from the mini-irms and by identifying networks for promoting this movement.