French Agricultural Education Students: "Intermediaries" in the Fight against Climate Change
Résumé
This article aims to better understand how students of French agricultural education
position themselves in the face of climate change and get involved in its fight. It is based on a
survey carried with 300 students enrolled in the Brevet des Techniciens Supérieurs Agricoles
class. A statistical analysis highlights the sensitivity of students to climate change. Then, an
econometric modeling examines the determinants of this sensibility. Finally, a qualitative study
based on semi-directive interviews makes it possible to characterize the role of students as
intermediaries of knowledge and innovative practices. First, the results shown the a priori
paradoxical place of digital culture. Indeed, social media plays a negligible role in restructuring
students’ beliefs. However, agricultural school is a space for interactive discussions in which
opinions on climate change are formed and transformed. Our results also show that territories
specifically in rural areas, appear as spaces for innovation because it is potentially the source
of new rules and norms of behaviour. This study serves more particularly to examine in what
way and how the presence of these students in three contrasting cultural spaces (the social
networks, the School and the territories of life) shape their beliefs on the subject and endow
them with a power to act
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