The use of “unschooling” by political leaders, international donors and planners differs depending on the countries concerned.

HIBAPRESS-RABAT-OEJ

The use of “unschooling” by political leaders, international donors and planners differs depending on the countries concerned. If “out of school” people are represented by the media as dangerous populations in some countries, in others they become the target of specific programs called “street children” because, before being “out of school” these children are initially not in school and “at work”.

In a context where neither the institutionalization of school, nor even that of the State, has been completed, “dropping out of school” appears less subject to the obligation of legal attendance than resulting from the very great poverty of the great mass of the population. and economic constraints imposed by donors on States in a context of globalization of educational policies.

We see how, based on different situations, the institutionalization of school can be called into question. In cases such as those of African countries, the work carried out by researchers has revealed a deinstitutionalization of school through “deschooling” – in other words through the particular relationships of populations to school, underpinned by the precariousness of their situation and a certain depreciation of “education”.