25001 Martinache, I., & Farges, G. (Eds.). (2025). Enseignants: le grand déclassement? Paris: PUF.
The teaching profession is losing much of its appeal, as suggested by the continuing decline in applications for recruitment competitions and the rising trend in resignations. The days when teaching was seen as a priesthood seem to be over. This book sets out to explore the various factors and effects of this erosion of the teaching profession, which is not unique to France. It invites us to pay attention not only to pay, but also to recruitment policies and the management of teaching careers, to changes in the conditions under which teachers enter the profession and in their day-to-day work, to their sense of social worth and to political attitudes. Without losing sight of the fact that the teaching profession is affected by social changes that also affect other professional groups.
Contributors to this book include Xavier Dumay, Géraldine Farges, Sandrine Garcia, Frédérique Giraud, Tristan Haute, Igor Martinache and Xavier Pons.