Research Based Training of Trainers : the CIRPP case study(ex post reconstruction of positive side effects)
François FourcadeProfesseur @ ESCP-Europe
CIRPP Scientific Director
Who is speaking ?
44, Maried, 3 kids, Ingineering backgroung
•1991-2004: 15 years within the automotive Industry– Management Control, Purchasing,
business development, strategy– Mexico, USA, Brasil, Japan, South Africa, …
•PhD in Innovation Management Strategy (2004)– @ Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)
•Professor & Researcher @ ESCP-Europe– Executive Education programs :
• Consolis, Safran, Hermes, Bouygues, • Total, OFT, Oracle, Armée de Terre …• Thales, EADS, Sagem Défense Sécurité
•Research in Education science – Scientific Director of the CIRPP
The CCIP : Key figures
• CCIP Key Figures – Over 150 training programs from the age class
15 up to PhD + MBAs and exec ed. – 14 500 students
• Among them 4300 apprenticeship
– 30 000 participant in executive education – 92%: got a job after less than 6 months– 800 permanent teachers – 5000 practitioners part time teachers
Our Research Context
• The CCIP educational commitment : common educational values through participative enquiery involving …
• Management Schools : HEC Paris, ESCP- Europe, Novancia• Engineering School : ESIEE Paris• Higher « vocational » Programs :
– Fashion : ESIV (Ecole Supérieure des Industries du Vêtement),
– Cooks : ESCF (Ecole Supérieure de Cuisine Française)
• Professional Schools : – Centre des Formations Industrielles, Ecole Grégoire-Ferrandi ;
Gobelins, l’école de l’image ; TECOMAH, l’école de l’environnement et du cadre de vie
The 6 educational Values
• Awaken the desire to take initiatives.• Develop each individual's potential. • Strengthen commitment to the planet and to society.• Build own vision but also : open up all kinds of
worlds. • Become responsible, committed and reflective
decision makers.• Develop courage and strength for transformative
action
One research questions : •How can you ensure those values are for real cascaded down to the organization ?
Action-Research Based Change Management …
The Institution : “can we come back to a leading position in education?”
HEC Paris ESCP-Europe ESIEE Paris Novancia EGF CFIGOBELINS
ESIVTECOMAH
CIRPP
Yes we can ! A research lab is
born…
15 Professional Researchers / Paid based on their research report – Working Paper20 working days per projects
2 Teachers per school 100 teaching hours paid by the lab. One research meeting per months
CIRPP birth date : Dec the 10th 2007, first action in may 2008
Scientific Directorr 3 days per weekScientific Advisor 2 days / w
One research Assitant full time
A research Method : Action Research upon innovative teaching practices
The research framework on innovation
• The CIRPP sequence of actions :– A call for innovative teaching projects – A selection process
• Commitment to educational values • Organizational learning potential
– A research team is created • 5 000 € of bonus for the project / school • 1 professional researcher • 1 Video man => anthropological movie ( 25 to 50 min)• The professors team leading the idea
– Clinical observation / Deep involvement – A research report is produced – Presented facing the “collective researcher”– The project is presented by the reseacher to the other projects
researchers – Working paper co-written with the professor’s team– … academic publication
So far so good …
• Almost 40 research projects followed by the CIRPP since 2008
• Our first academic publication accepted – Journal of Management Development on
experiential learning
• Transformative effects (Mezirow)– …
Learning Effects –Training EffectsTransformation effects
• The CIRPP has : – Created a new link between the internal educational
community– Helped many professors in their will to innovate– Act as a source for innovative ideas – Cascaded a new research culture in education culture
in the schools through the professors that were selected (« Lead Users »)
– Explained many of the innovations effects and side effects – Critical Thinking & Evaluation culture
– Questionned in return the CCIP educational policy – Change Management provider
The CIRPP is feeding back the strategy through its deep questioning …
The educational policy (Tacit & Explicit)
HEC Paris ESCP-EuropeESIEE Paris
Novancia EGF CFIGOBELINS
ESIVTECOMAH
CIRPP
•Slack degree for the professors ?•Where the teaching motivation comes from ? •Should the CCIP encourage the critical thinking in education ?
•Who decides what students have to learn ?
•Who decides about the evaluation policy ?
Not how but why : the aim of our programs ?
The four main outputs
• Training through research– For teacher’s and assistants
• Practice renewal
• Social link between teaching communities
• New concepts – Empty inHabitable Frameworks (EHF)
• Presented in Athens, Boston, Paris
Next steps
• The SARA department creation to forster the will of actors to change their own institution – SARA : Soutien et Accompagnement à la Recherche
Action – « Action Research Support - Accompaniment Team »
• Video Standard Modules • Customized training programs • Cross fertilization between research projects • Self Reflexive auto-biographies • Storytelling • … lot’s of creation,improvisation, inspiration
Thank you !
• Q and A
www.cirpp-ccip.fr