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Notes on Contributor
Hervé Terral is Professor of Educational Sociology at Jean-Jaurès University (Toulouse, France), where he teaches this discipline and the history of social sciences. He is a member of a research laboratory, the LISST (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires—University of Toulouse II/Centre national de la Recherche scientifique–CNRS/École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales–EHESS). He is the author of a dozen books, dealing, on the one hand, with the socio-history of the French educational system, such as Profession: Teacher (PUF, 1997), Paul Lapie, école et société (Paul Lapie, School and Society) (L’Harmattan, 2004), Eduquer les pauvres, former le people (Educating the Poor, Train the People) (L’Harmattan, 2009), and on the other hand, with the place of the langue d’oc culture (the culture of southern France) in its European dimension, e.g. La langue d’oc devant l’école, 2005; L’Occitani en 48 mots (The langue d’oc Faces the School, 2005; The langue d’oc in 48 Words) (IEO édition, 2014). He is also the author of some hundred communications in seminars and articles on these subjects in Revue française de pédagogie (French Review of Education), Carrefours de l’éducation (Crossroads of Education) and Le Télémaque (Telemachus).