Bérénice Bernard
PhD Candidate at Centre for History at Sciences Po (CHSP), Paris and University of Geneva (Research Team in Social History of Education)
2022-2026 Thesis financed by a grand from the Swiss National Fund (FNS)
EDUCATion
- From September 2022 – Present: PhD Candidate at Sciences Po History Center (CHSP), Paris and at the University of Geneva (Research Team in Social History of Education, ERHISE). Thesis funded by a grant from the Swiss National Fund (FNS) for the period 2022- 2026. Cotutelle with Sciences Po started in 2023.
- 2019-2022: Master's degree in History at Sciences Po Paris with a research dissertation titled Acteurs et enjeux du développement de l’éducation préscolaire en Turquie (1968-1993) [Development of Preschool Education and Care in Turkey: Actors and Challenges (1968–1993)] under the supervision of Paul-André Rosental (CHSP).
- 2018: Master’s 1 in Public Administration at the School of Public Affairs of Sciences Po Paris
- 2015-2018: Bachelor’s in Social Sciences at Sciences Po Paris, Central and Eastern Europe specialization in Dijon
conferences
May 12, 2023 « Histoire de l’éducation préscolaire en Turquie » [History of preschool education in Turkey]
Presentation at the research seminar « Regards croisés sur la petite enfance » [Crossed perspectives on early childhood], Paris.
May 30, 2023 « La circulation des savoirs sur la petite-enfance entre l’Europe et la Turquie (fin des années 1960- début années 1990) [The circulation of knowledge on early childhood between Europe and Turkey (late 1960s - early 1990s]
Presentation at the study day organized by the Archives of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute (AIJJR) and the Research Team in Social History of Education (ERHISE) titled "Décoloniser l'éducation ?" Circulations pédagogiques et production de savoirs dans le Sud global (XXe-XXIe siècles)" [Decolonizing education? Pedagogical circulations and knowledge production in the Global South (20th-21st centuries)], University of Geneva.
July 20, 2023: "‘We Want Nurseries’: Female Workers and the Social Strife for Early Childhood Education and Care in Turkey (1975-1980)" Presentation at the ISCHE Annual Conference (International Standing Conference for the History of Education), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
September 22, 2023: "Healthy and well-nourished children. Co-construction of public policies for children's health in contemporary Turkey" Co-presentation, with Léa Delmaire, at the Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies organized by the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT), University of Vienna.
Awards
- 2023 : Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung (GTOT) Prize for outstanding MA thesis titled Development of Preschool Education and Care in Turkey: Actors and Challenges (1968–1993)
Languages
- French (native)
- English (fluent)
- Turkish (intermediate)
- Italian (intermediate)
Supervision of PhD Thesis
Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po, Centre for history) and Joëlle Droux (University of Geneva, Research team in social history of education)
Title : État et formation à la prise en charge éducative des jeunes enfants en Angleterre, France et Suisse (seconde moitié du XX e siècle) : du sanitaire au pédagogique? [State and training in the education of young children in England, France and Switzerland (second half of the 20th century): from sanitary care to pedagogy?]
Thesis summary
My thesis seeks to understand how the Welfare State, which flourished in the second half of the 20th century, configured the education of young children in co-construction with professionals of the field. The comparison of England, France and Switzerland constitutes the first step towards a transnational approach. Through a variety of local, national and international sources, my research will question the evolution of dominant representations and discourses in a European context where institutional forms of childcare spread in connection with major economic and social developments (expansion of social policies, women’s paid labor, demographic transformations). By studying together the history of education, of the Welfare State, the history of work and gender history, this thesis will also make it possible to question the professionalization of the various childcare occupations which, while creating new possibilities for paid work, has cultivated the idea of a domain reserved for women and of professions often considered as simple extensions of the maternal function.
