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Papers by Lorenzo Bonoli
Philosophie en cours, 2008
Attention is drawn to the epistemological functioning of scientific texts in the social sciences,... more Attention is drawn to the epistemological functioning of scientific texts in the social sciences, with an emphasis not only on the problems related to the production of such texts, but also on their reading. Taking the ethnographical text as a paradigm, the principal problems arising from its reading make it as tricky to analyze as the one––already well-studied––of the writing. It is shown that, both in the writing and the reading, the textual transmission of knowledge implies an important imaginative and linguistic effort that has some similarities with what can be observed in the writing and reading of literature.
Acta Décembre 2009
Cet article est un compte-rendu du livre : Raphäel Baroni, L’œuvre du temps. Poétique de la disco... more Cet article est un compte-rendu du livre : Raphäel Baroni, L’œuvre du temps. Poétique de la discordance narrative, Paris : Éditions du Seuil, coll. « Poétique », 2009, 336 p., EAN 9782020982290.
Hungarian Educational Research Journal
Vocational education and training (VET) systems around the world serve many aims, the most import... more Vocational education and training (VET) systems around the world serve many aims, the most important of which can be grouped into three main aims: economic, social and educational aims. These different aims find their roots in different socio-cultural and economic contexts and their importance in the functioning of the systems evolves according to the times. Our contribution proposes a reflection on the centrality of the notion of aims in order to better understand and describe the functioning of VET systems. By adopting an exploratory approach based on discourse analysis, we will show the interest in using this notion to build a theoretical framework that facilitates international comparisons between VET systems and also the description of their evolution from the past to the future. To exemplify the relevance of this exploratory approach, the contribution will propose a description of the evolution of the Swiss VET system from 1880 up to 2030, based on the articulation of economic...
In der deutschen Schweiz absolvieren 64 Prozent der Jugendlichen eine Lehre. Ganz anders in der R... more In der deutschen Schweiz absolvieren 64 Prozent der Jugendlichen eine Lehre. Ganz anders in der Romandie, wo dies nicht einmal die Hälfte des Jahrgangs tun. Ein vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds finanziertes Forschungsprojekt ging der Frage nach, warum das so ist. Der Beitrag zeigt anhand von drei Kantonen (ZH, GE, TI), dass wichtige politische Weichenstellungen Anfang der 60er-Jahre erfolgten, unter anderem mit dem Vollzug des neuen Berufsbildungsgesetzes. Während man im Kanton Zürich die Initiative den Berufsverbänden überliess, die weitgehend an der Organisation der kantonalen Berufsbildung beteiligt waren, verstand man im Kanton Genf die Berufsbildung als Teil eines umfassenderen Bildungssystems mit politischen und sozialen Zielen.
La perception est dotée d'une double nature : elle donne à connaître le monde et engage une r... more La perception est dotée d'une double nature : elle donne à connaître le monde et engage une relation de (dé)plaisir avec des apparences. Cette étude pluridisciplinaire entend éclairer les interactions qui, à la charnière du cognitif et de l'esthétique, se déploient dans l'expérience perceptive.
Multi- and interdisciplinary education is a major postulate in the Swiss school system and has co... more Multi- and interdisciplinary education is a major postulate in the Swiss school system and has considerable weight in educational programs and learning objectives, both in compulsory school and at the upper secondary school level. However, materializing this postulate still poses problems at the political and institutional level, where the fragmentation of educational system due to Switzerland's federal structure does not foster wide-scale reform; in certain programs at the secondary school level, where disciplinary logic remains predominant; and in teachers' everyday practice, which is only slowly adopting an interdisciplinary posture. Following a presentation of the specifics of the Swiss educational system and an attempt to define the notion of interdisciplinarity, this contribution will offer an analysis of developments in the discourse surrounding interdisciplinarity in Switzerland from the 1970s onwards and present the most noteworthy initiatives in this field.
Education Sciences, 2022
Despite the fact that the Swiss VET system has been regulated by federal laws since 1930, the 26 ... more Despite the fact that the Swiss VET system has been regulated by federal laws since 1930, the 26 cantons that make up the Swiss Confederation enjoy a certain room for maneuver when implementing federal provisions at the regional level. This is reflected in sometimes significant differences between the cantons, particularly with regard to participation in dual VET. Based on a historical reconstruction of the institutionalization process of the Swiss VET system, our contribution first explains the institutional conditions under which cantonal differences are possible; secondly describes their evolution; and finally identifies the main factors which influence their appearance. In more detail, our contribution begins with a reconstruction of the development of VET in Switzerland and in three cantons (ZH, GE, TI) during the decisive period for the Swiss VET system from 1950 to 1970. This reconstruction is based firstly on a historical analysis of sources (laws, messages, statistical data...
Cet article propose une reflexion d’ordre philosophique et epistemologique sur les conditions de ... more Cet article propose une reflexion d’ordre philosophique et epistemologique sur les conditions de possibilite de la connaissance de l’alterite culturelle, telles qu’elles peuvent etre encore pensees apres la critique relativiste. Tout en reconnaissant la nature conditionnee de nos descriptions et de nos interpretations, la rencontre effective avec une autre culture offre une situation concrete ou l’experience de l’inadequation des representations familieres peut s’ouvrir sur de nouvelles connaissances. Cette experience permet de penser l’alterite culturelle comme ce qui ne se laisse pas reduire aux categories habituelles et, parallelement, conduit a concevoir le travail de l’anthropologue comme une reaction a cette experience ; une reaction qui l’oblige a produire, dans un effort de traduction et d’imagination, de nouvelles representations en mesure de surmonter l’inadequation des representations de depart. Mots-cles : Anthropologie – connaissance – alterite culturelle – experience d...
The Swiss [vocational education and training] VET, in its current institutional form, was gradual... more The Swiss [vocational education and training] VET, in its current institutional form, was gradually established over a 50-year period between 1880 and 1930. Beside the Confederation and the Cantons, the third main actor in this institutionalisation process can be identified in professional associations in the craft sector. On the contrary, trade unions play a minor role in the all process. The paper presents the main reasons that could explain the discreet presence of trade unions in the process of institutionalization of the domain and analyses the consequences of this on the first laws on VET and on the successive evolution to the present day.
Jeux de grammaire : l'exploration des limites du langage Les guêpes fleurissent vert. (Paul Eluar... more Jeux de grammaire : l'exploration des limites du langage Les guêpes fleurissent vert. (Paul Eluard, L'amour la poésie, p. 153) Les jumeaux sont une seule personne et sont des oiseaux. (Evans-Pritchard : Nuer Religion, p. 128) Dispose l'ordonné et l'abscisse sur le siècle et découpe moi un quadrant. (Samuel R. Delany, Le temps considéré comme une hélice de pierres semi-précieuses, p. 221) A quelqu'un qui dit « j'ai un corps », on peut demander « qui parle ici avec cette bouche » ? (Wittgenstein : De la certitude, p. 76) Y at -il quelque chose qui rapproche ces quatre citations ? Elles proviennent de quatre horizons discursifs différents : la poésie, l'ethnographie, la science-fiction et la philosophie. Les pratiques d'écriture dans lesquelles elles s'insèrent sont profondément différentes ; le geste intentionnel de leurs auteurs l'est aussi, comme d'ailleurs les lectures auxquelles elles invitent. Et pourtant au-delà de ces différences, ces trois citations présentent un trait commun : banalement, elles apparaissent « étranges » ; la signification de ce qui est dit n'apparaît pas immédiatement compréhensible ; elles paraissent-sortie de leur contexte et de leur co-texte-comme incohérentes.
The historical roots of the debate on fiction and its cognitive and epistemic function are presen... more The historical roots of the debate on fiction and its cognitive and epistemic function are presented in this paper, along with the interest this debate holds for an epistemological reflection in human sciences. The author emphasizes a certain dilution of the notion of fiction, today commonly used as simply synonymous to “construction.” Certain aspects stress that link to unexplored notions of fiction, in an effort to define more sharply the modalities of construction of knowledge in human sciences and to explicate the epistemological implications of the constructivist approach that, during those last decades, seems to prevail in this area of research.
The Swiss [vocational education and training] VET system has been developing into its current ins... more The Swiss [vocational education and training] VET system has been developing into its current institutional structures since the end of the 19th century. Some decades earlier, from 1850 on, Switzerland witnessed the development of its official statistics. However, experts and politicians had to wait until 1935 for a first complete and updated set of national data concerning the VET domain. The analysis of this delay shows that the development of statistics on VET had to overcome several difficulties: not only technical problems of data collection due to the youth of the discipline of statistics, but also problems raised by an unstable and evolving domain, requiring the redefinition of certain statistical categories. For instance, the category of 'apprentice', with its ambiguous identity between worker and learner, caused major problems for data collection in those days. Only the implementation of the first federal law of 1930 provided a stable framework for the development o...
"The issue of relations between history, literature, and philosophy is addressed within thei... more "The issue of relations between history, literature, and philosophy is addressed within their respective activities in knowledge construction. Firstly, from a historical viewpoint, the importance of the constructivist paradigm, which started a profound revision of the disciplinary frontiers and opened a dialogue between theses disciplines, is stressed. Secondly, an important feature that these three disciplines seem to share is underlined: history, literature, and philosophy require linguistic innovation; often their aim is to find new words for expressing something that has not been said before."
Philosophie en cours, 2008
Attention is drawn to the epistemological functioning of scientific texts in the social sciences,... more Attention is drawn to the epistemological functioning of scientific texts in the social sciences, with an emphasis not only on the problems related to the production of such texts, but also on their reading. Taking the ethnographical text as a paradigm, the principal problems arising from its reading make it as tricky to analyze as the one––already well-studied––of the writing. It is shown that, both in the writing and the reading, the textual transmission of knowledge implies an important imaginative and linguistic effort that has some similarities with what can be observed in the writing and reading of literature.
Acta Décembre 2009
Cet article est un compte-rendu du livre : Raphäel Baroni, L’œuvre du temps. Poétique de la disco... more Cet article est un compte-rendu du livre : Raphäel Baroni, L’œuvre du temps. Poétique de la discordance narrative, Paris : Éditions du Seuil, coll. « Poétique », 2009, 336 p., EAN 9782020982290.
Hungarian Educational Research Journal
Vocational education and training (VET) systems around the world serve many aims, the most import... more Vocational education and training (VET) systems around the world serve many aims, the most important of which can be grouped into three main aims: economic, social and educational aims. These different aims find their roots in different socio-cultural and economic contexts and their importance in the functioning of the systems evolves according to the times. Our contribution proposes a reflection on the centrality of the notion of aims in order to better understand and describe the functioning of VET systems. By adopting an exploratory approach based on discourse analysis, we will show the interest in using this notion to build a theoretical framework that facilitates international comparisons between VET systems and also the description of their evolution from the past to the future. To exemplify the relevance of this exploratory approach, the contribution will propose a description of the evolution of the Swiss VET system from 1880 up to 2030, based on the articulation of economic...
In der deutschen Schweiz absolvieren 64 Prozent der Jugendlichen eine Lehre. Ganz anders in der R... more In der deutschen Schweiz absolvieren 64 Prozent der Jugendlichen eine Lehre. Ganz anders in der Romandie, wo dies nicht einmal die Hälfte des Jahrgangs tun. Ein vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds finanziertes Forschungsprojekt ging der Frage nach, warum das so ist. Der Beitrag zeigt anhand von drei Kantonen (ZH, GE, TI), dass wichtige politische Weichenstellungen Anfang der 60er-Jahre erfolgten, unter anderem mit dem Vollzug des neuen Berufsbildungsgesetzes. Während man im Kanton Zürich die Initiative den Berufsverbänden überliess, die weitgehend an der Organisation der kantonalen Berufsbildung beteiligt waren, verstand man im Kanton Genf die Berufsbildung als Teil eines umfassenderen Bildungssystems mit politischen und sozialen Zielen.
La perception est dotée d'une double nature : elle donne à connaître le monde et engage une r... more La perception est dotée d'une double nature : elle donne à connaître le monde et engage une relation de (dé)plaisir avec des apparences. Cette étude pluridisciplinaire entend éclairer les interactions qui, à la charnière du cognitif et de l'esthétique, se déploient dans l'expérience perceptive.
Multi- and interdisciplinary education is a major postulate in the Swiss school system and has co... more Multi- and interdisciplinary education is a major postulate in the Swiss school system and has considerable weight in educational programs and learning objectives, both in compulsory school and at the upper secondary school level. However, materializing this postulate still poses problems at the political and institutional level, where the fragmentation of educational system due to Switzerland's federal structure does not foster wide-scale reform; in certain programs at the secondary school level, where disciplinary logic remains predominant; and in teachers' everyday practice, which is only slowly adopting an interdisciplinary posture. Following a presentation of the specifics of the Swiss educational system and an attempt to define the notion of interdisciplinarity, this contribution will offer an analysis of developments in the discourse surrounding interdisciplinarity in Switzerland from the 1970s onwards and present the most noteworthy initiatives in this field.
Education Sciences, 2022
Despite the fact that the Swiss VET system has been regulated by federal laws since 1930, the 26 ... more Despite the fact that the Swiss VET system has been regulated by federal laws since 1930, the 26 cantons that make up the Swiss Confederation enjoy a certain room for maneuver when implementing federal provisions at the regional level. This is reflected in sometimes significant differences between the cantons, particularly with regard to participation in dual VET. Based on a historical reconstruction of the institutionalization process of the Swiss VET system, our contribution first explains the institutional conditions under which cantonal differences are possible; secondly describes their evolution; and finally identifies the main factors which influence their appearance. In more detail, our contribution begins with a reconstruction of the development of VET in Switzerland and in three cantons (ZH, GE, TI) during the decisive period for the Swiss VET system from 1950 to 1970. This reconstruction is based firstly on a historical analysis of sources (laws, messages, statistical data...
Cet article propose une reflexion d’ordre philosophique et epistemologique sur les conditions de ... more Cet article propose une reflexion d’ordre philosophique et epistemologique sur les conditions de possibilite de la connaissance de l’alterite culturelle, telles qu’elles peuvent etre encore pensees apres la critique relativiste. Tout en reconnaissant la nature conditionnee de nos descriptions et de nos interpretations, la rencontre effective avec une autre culture offre une situation concrete ou l’experience de l’inadequation des representations familieres peut s’ouvrir sur de nouvelles connaissances. Cette experience permet de penser l’alterite culturelle comme ce qui ne se laisse pas reduire aux categories habituelles et, parallelement, conduit a concevoir le travail de l’anthropologue comme une reaction a cette experience ; une reaction qui l’oblige a produire, dans un effort de traduction et d’imagination, de nouvelles representations en mesure de surmonter l’inadequation des representations de depart. Mots-cles : Anthropologie – connaissance – alterite culturelle – experience d...
The Swiss [vocational education and training] VET, in its current institutional form, was gradual... more The Swiss [vocational education and training] VET, in its current institutional form, was gradually established over a 50-year period between 1880 and 1930. Beside the Confederation and the Cantons, the third main actor in this institutionalisation process can be identified in professional associations in the craft sector. On the contrary, trade unions play a minor role in the all process. The paper presents the main reasons that could explain the discreet presence of trade unions in the process of institutionalization of the domain and analyses the consequences of this on the first laws on VET and on the successive evolution to the present day.
Jeux de grammaire : l'exploration des limites du langage Les guêpes fleurissent vert. (Paul Eluar... more Jeux de grammaire : l'exploration des limites du langage Les guêpes fleurissent vert. (Paul Eluard, L'amour la poésie, p. 153) Les jumeaux sont une seule personne et sont des oiseaux. (Evans-Pritchard : Nuer Religion, p. 128) Dispose l'ordonné et l'abscisse sur le siècle et découpe moi un quadrant. (Samuel R. Delany, Le temps considéré comme une hélice de pierres semi-précieuses, p. 221) A quelqu'un qui dit « j'ai un corps », on peut demander « qui parle ici avec cette bouche » ? (Wittgenstein : De la certitude, p. 76) Y at -il quelque chose qui rapproche ces quatre citations ? Elles proviennent de quatre horizons discursifs différents : la poésie, l'ethnographie, la science-fiction et la philosophie. Les pratiques d'écriture dans lesquelles elles s'insèrent sont profondément différentes ; le geste intentionnel de leurs auteurs l'est aussi, comme d'ailleurs les lectures auxquelles elles invitent. Et pourtant au-delà de ces différences, ces trois citations présentent un trait commun : banalement, elles apparaissent « étranges » ; la signification de ce qui est dit n'apparaît pas immédiatement compréhensible ; elles paraissent-sortie de leur contexte et de leur co-texte-comme incohérentes.
The historical roots of the debate on fiction and its cognitive and epistemic function are presen... more The historical roots of the debate on fiction and its cognitive and epistemic function are presented in this paper, along with the interest this debate holds for an epistemological reflection in human sciences. The author emphasizes a certain dilution of the notion of fiction, today commonly used as simply synonymous to “construction.” Certain aspects stress that link to unexplored notions of fiction, in an effort to define more sharply the modalities of construction of knowledge in human sciences and to explicate the epistemological implications of the constructivist approach that, during those last decades, seems to prevail in this area of research.
The Swiss [vocational education and training] VET system has been developing into its current ins... more The Swiss [vocational education and training] VET system has been developing into its current institutional structures since the end of the 19th century. Some decades earlier, from 1850 on, Switzerland witnessed the development of its official statistics. However, experts and politicians had to wait until 1935 for a first complete and updated set of national data concerning the VET domain. The analysis of this delay shows that the development of statistics on VET had to overcome several difficulties: not only technical problems of data collection due to the youth of the discipline of statistics, but also problems raised by an unstable and evolving domain, requiring the redefinition of certain statistical categories. For instance, the category of 'apprentice', with its ambiguous identity between worker and learner, caused major problems for data collection in those days. Only the implementation of the first federal law of 1930 provided a stable framework for the development o...
"The issue of relations between history, literature, and philosophy is addressed within thei... more "The issue of relations between history, literature, and philosophy is addressed within their respective activities in knowledge construction. Firstly, from a historical viewpoint, the importance of the constructivist paradigm, which started a profound revision of the disciplinary frontiers and opened a dialogue between theses disciplines, is stressed. Secondly, an important feature that these three disciplines seem to share is underlined: history, literature, and philosophy require linguistic innovation; often their aim is to find new words for expressing something that has not been said before."