Abstract

BERGIER, François Gouraud, Bertrand. Second Chance High School: conduct and paradoxical device: a socio-linguistic approach to a responsible’s speech. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.59, pp.1149-1169.  Epub Feb 05, 2020. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.18.059.ds08.

This article examines the story of the practices of a teacher in charge of a Second Chance High School (SCHS) which welcomes students who are going back to school, after having dropped out. The paradoxical systemic approach (Barel, 1989) makes it possible to emphasize one of the characteristics of these atypical structures: that of being outside the usual school standards while preparing for a certification test of the school system, which implies the acquisition of content in reference to a diploma of the Départment of National Education and the internalization of impersonal requirements of its graduation. Decrypting the justifications of the SCHS manager’s practices regarding absenteeism - the main expression of indiscipline in a Second Chance High School - our study shows that it is by having the paradoxical drive to «aim for the impossible» that he and his team, fulfill their mission.

Keywords : Second Chance High School; Justification; Responsible; Paradoxical conduct.

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