Publish at September 05 2023 Updated September 05 2023
The face of homelessness seems to be one associated with adults who have found themselves, voluntarily or otherwise, on the streets. Yet this incomplete portrait omits minors. According to UNICEF, 42,000 children are homeless in France alone. A telephone number exists in Paris to respond to rental emergencies. However, despite political promises, these numbers and shelters are overwhelmed.
So, as this Brut report shows, entire families are forced to wait in the January cold for organizations to help them find a place to spend each winter night, and to offer them meals. While some of these families are immigrants, others in regularized situations are still unable to pay the rents in the French capital. As a result, their children sometimes have to drop out of school, as high schools require a home address for enrolment. Demonstrations were even necessary before the town hall finally reserved a gymnasium to accommodate many of the people featured in this report.
Running time: 15min42
Photo : Dimi Katsavaris / Unsplash
Learn more about this resource
You might also like:
Finding your raison d'être through Ikigaï
The Japanese Ikigaï method, more or less related to flow or intrinsic motivation, is a simple and effective technique for finding one's raison d'être, vocation and professional orientation through introspection and personal reflection.
Alternative thoughts and movements: new models
Today's alternative movements could well be tomorrow's models. The model student in these educational projects is often the rejected student in other systems; it all depends on the criteria taken as a reference.
When the classroom becomes an oven
Our world is warming up. Heatwaves are becoming recurrent events with major effects on the population. The air conditioning is on full blast, and those who don't have it are running as many fans as possible. While society as a whole suffers from the heat, students are no less affected.
Research in the educational sciences is too often precisely wrong.
A critique of training sciences that too often focus on approaches that are disconnected from reality
The Singapore method to France's rescue
At first glance, mathematics may seem a little abstract to a child. They are presented with vague terms and concepts. The Singapore method helps pupils to concretize the precepts at the outset, gradually making them more abstract. But how well does it fit into the French system?
