Les representations sociales de la ville chez les ecoliers de deux villes europeennes, d'Arles et de Sparte : une approche comparative

Abstract

In 1994, an educational programme looking into the historical development of two Mediterranean towns, ArIes in France, and Sparta in Greece, was set up in order to analyse the social representation of the urban space on the basis of the drawing of two groups of students aged twelve. These students met each other for a period of a week, first in ArIes and then in Sparta. In particular, the pupils were asked to make a drawing of the town plan of Aries and Sparta. The emergence of the central elements of the social representations by each of the groups has shown that the latter are linked to the pupils' own cultural heritages. The results presented here are initial and exploratory reflections of an on-going research project.