Contenu du sommaire : Les jeunes dans une société multiculturelle.

Public school facing the multicultural challenge : Present situation and prospects in France Like most of the other European democracies, France is today confronted with a «multicultural revolution «, corollary of the sociologica transformation of the population. Among other institutions, school must face the rise of pupils' demands for recognition. Without exaggerating an actually limited phenomenon, this paper explains its motives and reminds its main demonstrations.. It also attempts to underline the limits of institutional responses while inviting to reformulate the sacro-sanct secular republican principle

The changing life contexts of young people in Europe Intercultural Education in Transition ? The author exposes some of the key challenges facing non-formal educational provision in the Council of Europe youth sector, given the rapidly changing life contexts of young people in Europe, and explores the particular ways in which the Council of Europe, Directorate of Youth and Sport, is attempting to tackle these challenges.

Intercultural skills : Proposals for reflections concerning nativeborn children of immigrants The purpose of this contribution is to set out a brief theoritical reflection issued from various fields of social sciences, and in particular from intercultural psychology which could help the socio-educative actors, in a general sense, to understand the identity behaviours of second-generation immigrants in Western Europe living on socially problematic and culturally heterogeneous grounds. Within this framework, it is worth standing back to attempt to define the basic elements for such a reflection. The key question is what is an intercultural skill ? regards the ways of thinking and attitudes. ?

Police and young black people in Great-Britain The problem of the relationships between the police and the ethnic minorities has not yet been solved. On the one hand, an excessive police surveillance has been observed towards these populations and on the other hand, racist attacks have been recorded. How does the police change in Great-Britain ? This paper attempts to answer this question on the basis of the analysis of a news item that happened in London, in 1999, and whose title in the newspaper was : "Manhunt after a new Lawrence case"

New immigrant young people in France and USA : towards a non-linear integration. The integration of immigrant children has for long been experienced and perceived as the pathway from the native community to the host society However, the pattern is too simplistic to give an account of the complex situations native-born children of immigrants are experiencing, in particular for those recently arrived from the Southern countries and living in underpriviledged areas. Recent researches carried out in the United States suggest that some forms of adaptation distant from the traditional model are possible without being confined for all that to a mere "community withdrawal".

The rank of Hungary within Europe viewed by the pupils How do future European citizens rank their own country in the new economical and political landmarks ? This paper sets out and analyses the point of view of Hungarian secondary school pupils in their final year. For these future voters, does Hungary belong to Western, Central or Eastern Europe, geographically, historically, politically, culturally and as regards the ways of thinking and attitudes. ?

The professional identity of youth workers The youth worker's activity has changed with time. Indicators of social enrolment, defined as vocational criteria, the work, a new segment of human activity and institutional registrations reveal the undergoing process of professionalization. However, according to the interactionist prospects of the Anglo-Saxon sociology of professions, these criteria are not sufficient to establish that it constitutes a profession. This paper links these notions to the issue of vocational identity for youth workers.

Free sport : contesting in acts ? The practice of a sport activity in an autonomous way cannot be automatically interpreted as a sign of opposition to federal sport. or as a general rule, to the dominant culture. Merely, the vitality of the space is not uniquely determined by the established functions but by the daily use. It is in the description and the understanding of leisure sports activities taking place in the city that we will appreciate the degrees of an activity which is not in accordance with norms a priori but does not necessarily have the characteristics of a protest movement against the established order.