31 juillet 2022
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Marie-Carmen Garcia et al., « Normalising pupils' behaviour through yoga in FranceFirst elements of research », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10670/1.964fau
Yogic practices have been very successful in France and in most industrialized countries for the last thirty years, as part of a more general movement towards the psychologization of social relations and the development of self-improvement practices. In this article, we analyze how these practices are mobilized by teachers in a double and a priori contradictory objective: to maintain, at the collective level, the discipline and the normalization of behaviors necessary within the framework of teaching situations informed by the school form of socialization on the one hand; to respect, at the individual level, the objective of forming autonomous and responsible students in congruence with the dominant liberal norms. The analyses, conducted on the basis of interviews with teachers deploying such practices, lead to several programmatic proposals for the analysis of yoga teaching in the French context.