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Titre Entre expérimentation et innovation - A propos d'une expérimentation en cours dans le cadre de la protection de l'enfance
Auteur M. Michel Chauvière, Directeur de recherche au CNRS, CERSA-Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Mir@bel Revue Revue française d'administration publique
Numéro no 115, décembre 2005 Politiques publiques et innovation sociale
Rubrique / Thématique
Politiques publiques et innovation sociale
Page 391
Résumé anglais Between Experimentation and Innovation About an Ongoing Experiment in the Context of Child Protection. The author's intention is to help clarify these two ideas. Innovation is concerned with how new ideas come about and spread : beginning with a single actor and an empirical action, they then enter into a second phase in which they are appropriated by society. Experimentation consists of testing a new idea by means of a scientific type of methodology, with a protocol technique of evaluation, verification and validation of results. Michel Chauvière gives the example of a five-year experiment in the field of child protection introduced by the law of August 2004 on local responsibilities. He discusses the difficulties raised by the experiment and concludes that they are linked to the relative lack of preparation, both in terms of discussion of the underlying political issues involved, which paradoxically are nothing new, and in terms of the way they are carried out, which does not sufficiently take into consideration the fact that experimentation itself is a learning process.
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