Ce livre est né d’un constat : la figure du maître « seul » dans sa classe est en train de s’effacer devant la multiplication des collaborations avec d’autres adultes pendant le temps scolaire. Comment ces collaborations mettent-elles à l’épreuve aussi bien l’activité quotidienne des enseignants que leur identité professionnelle ? Assiste-t-on à une véritable mutation du travail dans les écoles élémentaires et à une remise en cause de la polyvalence des maîtres ? Quels sont les enjeux à la...

Comment penser la diversité des transitions vécues par les jeunes enfants ?À partir de onze recherches menées en Belgique, en France, en Italie, au Québec et en Suisse, cet ouvrage propose d’analyser les transitions vécues par les jeunes enfants sous de multiples perspectives. Il s’intéresse aussi bien aux transitions dites verticales, comme le passage de la crèche à l’école, qu’aux transitions horizontales, qui concernent le passage d’une situation ou d’une activité à une autre au ...

Pratiques et politiques entretiennent des liens étroits, même s’ils sont souvent indirects ou peu visibles, voire déniés dans le domaine de la petite enfance, objet d’attentes croissantes et d’enjeux multiples sur la scène internationale. Ce livre collectif s'appuie sur des travaux de chercheuses et chercheurs engagés dans des analyses fondées sur des enquêtes empiriques menées auprès de professionnels, de parents et d'enfants en Belgique, en France, au Québec et en Suisse. Il met en évide...

It's a few days before Christmas in Versailles. Olivier has come to bury his mother, but the impending holidays and icy conditions have delayed the funeral.While trapped in limbo at his mother's flat, a chance encounter brings Olivier back in touch with childhood friend Jeanne and her blind brother, Rodolphe.Rodolphe suggests they have dinner together, along with a homeless man he's taken in. As the wine flows, dark secrets are spilled, and there's more than just hangovers ...

Auch wenn sich Fabien und Sylvie dies nicht eingestanden hätten, wussten beide, dass ihre Ehe nicht mehr funktionierte. Doch als Sylvie bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kommt, muss Fabien zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass neben seiner Frau auch ihr Liebhaber zu Tode gekommen ist. Im Leichenschauhaus kommt es zu einer flüchtigen Begegnung mit zwei Frauen, von denen eine Martine, die Witwe des verstorbenen Liebhabers seiner Frau, ist und die andere ihre beste Freundin Madeleine. In Fabien beginnt der ...

Ennui, dislocation, alienation, estrangement - these are the colours on Garnier's palette. And somehow, darkly, he makes them almost funny. I could compare him with JG Ballard or with Michel Houellebecq or Daniel Davies. He's been compared with Georges Simenon and Cormac McCarthy and with Patricia Highsmith. But really, his books are out there on their own, short, jagged and exhilarating, unexpected slaps around the face that make you laugh with surprise while you spin around to see who di...

»Es ist die Geschichte eines Mannes, Louis mit Namen, um die vierzig, ein netter Kerl, aber dauernd abgebrannt, der seine Mutter umbringt, um an das Erbe zu kommen.« Auf diese leicht aberwitzige Idee für eine Geschichte kommt ein Schriftsteller, der sich an die Küste der Normandie zurückgezogen hat, um seinen nächsten Roman zu schreiben. Schon bald ermordet Louis mit ausgesuchter Gönnerhaftigkeit und Diskretion auch die Eltern seiner Freunde – was diesen ein sorgenfreies Leben verschafft. ...

Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short novels feature a recurring set of themes, characters and settings, and reading them side by side allows the author's profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience to be fully appreciated.Volume 1 includes The A26, in which a new Picardy motorway brings modernity close to a flat in which a brother and sister live together, haunted by terminal illness and the events of 1945; How's ...

Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short novels weave a profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience. Volume 3 includes The Eskimo Solution, which combines the story of a struggling writer with excerpts of the crime novel he's writing, which will spill over into his own life; Low Heights, in which a cantankerous retiree falls for his nurse and finds himself confronted with a man claiming to be his long-lost son ... but th...

A crime writer uses the modest advance on his latest novel to rent a house on the Normandy coast. There should be little to distract him from his work besides walks on the windswept beach, but as he begins to tell the tale of forty-something Louis - who, after dispatching his own mother, goes on to relieve others of their burdensome elderly relations - events in his own life begin to overlap with the work of his imagination.

If you have an inner life, you inevitably have a double life. It remained to be seen which of the two lives would gobble up the other.Brice and Emma had bought their new home in the countryside together. And then Emma disappeared. Now, as he awaits her return, Brice busies himself with DIY and walks around the village. He gradually comes to know his new neighbours including Blanche, an enigmatic woman in white, who has lived on her own in the big house by the graveyard since the de...

Ennui, dislocation, alienation, estrangement - these are the colours on Garnier's palette. And somehow, darkly, he makes them almost funny. I could compare him with JG Ballard or with Michel Houellebecq or Daniel Davies. He's been compared with Georges Simenon and Cormac McCarthy and with Patricia Highsmith. But really, his books are out there on their own, short, jagged and exhilarating, unexpected slaps around the face that make you laugh with surprise while you spin around to see who di...