Dr. habil. Amévor Amouzou-Glikpa
Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology
Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
E-mail : amevor82hotmail.com
Period of stay : until March 2024
Research Focus and Biography
After completing my PhD in Social Change – Sociology option at the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille in France, I worked as a researcher at LASDEL-Benin (www.lasdel.net) and as head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Parakou (Benin). Since 2015 I am currently Professor-Researcher in Sociology of Education at the University of Lomé (Togo). My research focuses on the social dynamics of education, public action and globalization. Currently based at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) of the University of Cologne, I am working on a research project on "Practical Norms in Education Services in Togo". This is a project that consists in describing and analyzing the discrepancy between the official Norms of public education policy and the real, but often informal, practices of actors in the process of implementing official instructions. The discrepancies between official norms and practical norms provide a good analysis of the social dynamics of education in Togo.
Education and professional career
Since 2015
Professor-Researcher in Sociology of Education at the University of Lomé (Togo)
2011
Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Parakou (Benin)
2009
Postdoc research at LASDEL-Benin (www.lasdel.net)
2008
PhD in Social Change – Sociology option at the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille in France
Selected Publications
Amouzou-Glikpa, A. (2019) : « Vers une redéfinition de l’objet de la sociologie : qu’en est-il du changement social ? » [Toward a Redefinition of the Subject of Sociology: What About Social Change?]. in : Baba G. (Dir.), La recherche en Afrique : Rétro-vision et vision pour l’émergence, Vol.2 : Identités, mutations sociales, théories de l’éducation et approches pédagogiques, L’Harmattan, Paris, ISBN : 978-2-343-18, 121-140.
Amouzou-Glikpa, A. (2018) : La condition enseignante en Afrique francophone. Les cas du Bénin, du Burkina Faso et du Togo [The teaching conditions in French-speaking Africa. Using the example of Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo]. Presses Académiques Francophones, Beau Bassin, ISBN : 978-3-8416-2317-1, 295 pp.
Amouzou-Glikpa, A. (2018) : « La sociologie des inégalités sociales par l’analyse de l’arène scolaire : Approches documentaire et épistémologique » [The sociology of social inequalities through the analysis of school milieus: documentary and epistemological approaches]. CHRYSIPPE, Revue internationale d’études sociales, de philosophie, d’éducation et d’éthique, Vol.3, N°3, Juillet, 1er Septembre 2018, Cotonou, ISSN : 1840-7559, 404-420.
Amouzou-Glikpa, A.*, Akakpo-Numado, S. Y. (2018) : « L’option de la série littéraire par les filles dans l’enseignement secondaire au Togo : un choix rationnel ou stéréotypé ? », [The option of girls' literature series in secondary schools in Togo: a rational or stereotypical choice?]. LONNIYA, Revue du Laboratoire des Sciences Sociales et des Organisations (LASSO), Vol.1, N°5, Décembre 2018, Daloa, ISSN : 2434-561X, 11-37.
Akakpo-Numado, S. Y., Amouzou-Glikpa, A.* (2018) : « Les stéréotypes sexistes dans les manuels scolaires au Togo : quelles incidences sur les filles ? » [Gender stereotypes in textbooks in Togo: what impact on the school performance of girls?]. BenGéo, Revue semestrielle de Géographie du Bénin, N°24, décembre 2018, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, ISSN : 1840-5800, 179-195.
Amouzou-Glikpa, A. (2018) : « Le phénomène des cours de répétition : quelle lecture des dynamiques sociales dans le secteur de l’éducation au Togo ? » [The Phenomenon of Tutoring: What Interpretation of the Social Dynamics in the Education Sector in Togo?]. EDUCOM, N°008 décembre 2018, Lomé, ISSN : 2226-1443, 110-135.
Akakpo-Numado, S. Y.*, Amouzou-Glikpa, A. (2018) : « Usage de l’internet et performances scolaires au Togo : quels effets contrastes pour les technologies de l’information et de la communication ? » [Internetnutzung und Schulleistung in Togo: Welche gegensätzlichen Auswirkungen auf Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien?]. ENCRES, Revue scientifique semestrielle de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure Université Abdou Moumouni, N°007, juin 2018, ISSN : 1859-5116, 251-268.
Amouzou-Glikpa, A. (2018) : « Les chants scolaires et leurs fonctions pédagogiques et sociales au Togo » [School songs and their educational and social functions in Togo]. MultiFontaines N°5 janvier 2018, Lomé, ISSN : 2311-1658, 222-236.
Amouzou-Glikpa, A. (2018) : « La CEDEAO au service de l’éducation mondiale » [ECOWAS in the service of world education]. in : HETCHELI Kokou Folly Lolowou (Dir.), Intégration régionale, paix et développement dans l’espace CEDEAO, Presses de l’UL, 1er Semestre 2018, Lomé, ISBN : 978-291-678-9217, 327-340.
Amouzou-Glikpa, A. (2018) : « La gratuité ou la fin de l’école publique au Togo ? » [Free tuition fees or the end of public school in Togo?]. Revue Africaniste Inter-Disciplinaire (RAID), N°2, Décembre 2018, Yaoundé, Éditions Monange, ISBN : 978-9956-655-02-1, 17-38.
Current Project
"Practical Norms in Education Services in Togo"
This research project deals with the "Practical norms in the implementation of educational policy in Togo". It is a socio-anthropological debate about the location of the use of exported educational policy in some developing countries such as Togo, within the framework of development cooperation. The observation, description and analysis of some educational reforms in Togo in recent years, and the real contexts of their implementation, expose a great discrepancy between the official Norms and the practical conditions under which they are enforced. The research work consists of the analysis of such educational reforms in Togo.
The research allows a better understanding of the differences between the official Norms governing these educational reforms and the real practical Norms according to which they are implemented by the actors. This research project therefore contributes to rethinking and reorienting public service reforms through a bottom-up analysis. Even if this scientific approach is very important in the field of social anthropology of development policy, such an attempt was missing in Togo for a long time.