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