Member of Lasalé
Jean-Luc Gilles
Member of Lasalé
Professor, HEP Vaud (UER EN), Switzerland.
“From the moment we accept that education is the most powerful weapon to change the world (N. Mandela) and that this world has become a village (M. Mcluhan), to care about the issues of early school leaving and non-attendance in the countries of the South means looking after the fate of all of us.”
Profile
After having been a teacher and a tutor for adult employment seekers, Jean-Luc Gilles undertook a master's degree in psychopedagogical sciences and a diploma in upper secondary education for psychopedagogical sciences at the University of Mons (1992). In the 1990s, he worked as a researcher at the Service for education technology at the University of Mons then became a doctoral assistant in charge of the management of the Centre d’autoformation et d’évaluations interactives multimédias (CAFEIM, 1997-2000) [Centre for self-training and interactive multimedia assessments], and of the Système méthodologique d’aide à la réalisation de tests (SMART, 2000-2010) [Methodological system supporting the implementation of tests]. His doctoral thesis in Educational Sciences in the field of evaluation engineering focused on the use of the degree of certainty technique in standardized testing in a quality approach to evaluation. From 2006 to 2010, he was head of the Department of General Didactics and Educational Intervention at the University of Liège where he began his research on educational alliances supporting pupil retention. After joining the HEP Vaud in 2010, Jean-Luc Gilles was in charge of the Centre de soutien à la recherche et relations internationals [Centre for research support and international relations] until 2016. A co-founding member of lasalé, Jean-Luc Gilles is especially interested in educational alliances in order to fight against school non-attendance and early school leaving in southern contexts.
Research
Jean-Luc Gilles' research work mainly focuses on the engineering of training evaluations, but also on educational alliances, the internalization of teacher training (in particular with the PEERS program) and Open Science (implementation of the ORFEE tool at the HEP Vaud). Regarding the topic of pupil retention and educational alliances, Jean-Luc Gilles was the promoter of the action research carried out in the second half of the 2000s in the French Community of Belgium which sought to set up a framework common to the various spheres of actors and actresses confronted with absenteeism and / or early school leaving. The purpose was to promote faster and more adequate support for young people dropping out of school, by developing synergies between the many actors in the field.
He was also the initiator and scientific coordinator for two international conferences related to early school leaving and educational alliances : “Vers une approche qualité dans la prise en charge des jeunes en décrochage : prévention, intervention et suivi post-intervention” [“Towards a quality approach in the care of young people dropping out: prevention, intervention and post-intervention follow-up”] organized in June 2008 within the 15th Congress of the World Association of Educational Sciences (AMSE) and the “Alliances Educatives” [“Educative Alliances”] conference during the 16th AMSE Congress in 2010. In 2012, when the Laboratory Accrochage Scolaire et Alliances (lasalé) [Laboratory Pupil retention and Alliances] was created within the HEP Vaud, he organized with Chantal Tièche Christinat the second edition of the conference “Alliances Educatives” of the 17th AMSE Congress and co-directed with the latter and Pierre Potvin the collective book “Les alliances éducatives pour lutter contre le décrochage scolaire”[“Educative alliances to prevent early school leaving”]. Since the early 2010s, Jean-Luc Gilles has taken interest in the issues of early school leaving and non-attendance in southern contexts, more specifically in partnership with the association Zazakely Suisse in the canton Vaud which supports an education centre located in the disadvantaged district of Mahazina in Antsirabé (Madagascar). His projects in this sector seek to set up collaborations in the form of action research within partnerships with the Ecole Normale Supérieure d'Antananarivo (ENS) and the association Zazakely Suisse.
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