French elite colleges in the process of internationalisation. A qualitative study of the Écoles normales supérieures

在拟议的研究项目中，将分析法国精英学院目前在学术领域的转型过程，并特别关注国际化的维度。在这种背景下，该项目旨在重建两个不同的普通高等专科学校的自我表征中关于国际化和国际化的辩论，这两个学院的计划明确提到未来科学精英的形成。从理论上讲，该研究项目被置于对关键精英的研究背景下，并与皮埃尔·布尔迪厄及其同事关于法国精英教育体系的经典著作密切相关。这项研究的参照点，与布尔迪欧的场论或米歇尔·福柯的话语理论有关，被视为启发式因素，可以在研究过程中进一步发展，也可能被修改。从方法上讲，拟议的研究基于现有的数据，包括对这些机构代表的专家访谈和来自学院的自我陈述文件，这些数据将通过文献解读的方法从国际化的角度进行二次分析。预计该项目将对当前法国精英教育体系的转型产生新的见解。它有望成为德国教育体系中精英领域和教育领域研究的创新连接点和比较维度。

In the proposed research project, French elite colleges are to be analysed regarding the current transformation processes in the academic field with special attention paid to the dimension of internationalisation. In this context the project aims at a reconstruction of the debate of internationalisation and internationality in the self-representations of two contrasting Ecoles normales superieures whose programmes explicitly refer to the formation of the future scientific elite.Theoretically, the research project is placed in the context of research into critical elite and is pre-eminently tied to what could be called the classic work of Pierre Bourdieu and colleagues on the French system of elite education. Reference points of the study, which pertain to the Bourdieusian theory of field or to the discourse theory of Michel Foucault, are perceived as heuristic elements, which can be further developed in the research process and possibly modified.Methodologically, the proposed study is based on an already existing body of data consisting of expert interviews with representatives of these institutions and documents of self-representation from the colleges, which will be examined with a secondary analysis from the perspective of internationalisation, using the method of documentary interpretation.It is expected that the project will generate new insights into the current transformation of the system of elite education in France, which promise to be innovative connection points and dimensions of comparison regarding the study of the field of elite and education in terms of the German education system.