Filles et garçons en éducation: Les recherches récentes

Abstract

This synthesis, relating to the analysis of the educational (ferences between girls and boys, published in two parts. This first part sets out to be devoted, to preliminary reflection. After the presentation of the various theoretical frameworks figuring in explanations of the differences between exes, research relating to the connections between the physical differences and the behavioural differences between the sexes is questioned in order to evaluate their degree dependence. Secondly, the interactions g place within the family are observed analysed, it is the influence of the sex variable on the behaviour of the fathers and mothers, the girls and the boys, which is studied. The period covered by this article relates to research from 1995 to the present day. The second, will appear in a future issue. It will approach the contribution of the school's actors [actresses] to the social relations of sex.