Equity and social cohesion in the training of social professions: focus on the training "early years educator"

Abstract

From various documents, this paper proposes a reflection on the issue of challenges and opportunities for equity and social cohesion within the centers of social work education, especially in the sector "Early years educator." In a first step, we analyze the results of the investigation of the social work training conducted by the Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health with institutions training, social professions in 2010, on the issue of student profiles to examine the issue of social diversity. We then discuss the parameters, both individual and institutional, that may hamper or, conversely, to work in favor of this diversity and to promote non-equity and social cohesion within the group students. In the second part, the article will conduct a focus on training “Early years educator” and will interrogate the issue of equity and social cohesion in putting into perspective with the expected and the realities of the profession. It will then focus on training content, both in terms of training repository pedagogical choices, to identify what place is reserved in this training path, developing personal skills, interpersonal, linguistic and cultural critical to trades involving a human relationship.