Les animateurs des quartiers populaires : entre la régulation sociale et l’éducation populaire

Abstract

Heir of popular education, sociocultural community developer acts with vulnerable populations by using cultural dimension as a lever of social transformation. Leaning on the dynamics of closeness and building initiatives out of institutions are a part of his identity. Yet, as the field of sociocultural community development becomes institutionalized, the sociocultural community developer goes away from its initial marks. So we can see the emergence of a category of sociocultural community developers who appear more and more as social regulators and stabilizers of conflicts between institutions and young people of popular districts. What still left from popular education in the current professional identity of sociocultural community developers? To what extent could they compose with the marks of popular education and the requirements of institutions and representatives? The article proposes some elements to help understand the positioning of sociocultural community developers in the so said sensible districts from a serie of interviews.