Franck Lepage

After entered the Institute of political studies of Paris, he does not continue in the second year, but studying the oriental languages and the right and turns to the pedagogy.Teacher in class of transition in 1974, he discovered the animation in 1975, and incorporates the Departments sociocultural Animation and education Sciences at the " Centre universitaire experimental de Vincennes — says Faculty free and open-Vincennes (Paris 8) — in 1977. The animation is presented as a practice of the questioning of all institutions.He turns away from the animation for the theater in 1980 and began his theatre studies at the university of Paris 8 (Vincennes Saint-Denis). He founded his company in 1985. He joined the Fédération Française des Maisons des jeunes et de la Culture (1987) and heard for the first time in popular education, without that nobody can offer a convincing definition of this notion.It is trying to bring the cultural issue of the MJC with the ministry of Culture, which he explores the violence of the separation of symbolic culture/socioculture in France. It is then, with some others, to theorise the popular education as the "work of culture in the political and social transformation" and hosts a dynamic research FFMJC. In favor of a study for the Ministry of youth and sports, he met the founders of the Directorate of popular education in 1994. Host of the public offering of reflection on popular education, in 2000, he corédige a departmental report which tries to convince the minister Marie-George Buffet to adopt a policy worthy of the name. He left the FFMJC and creates a show about the popular education, "in-Culture(s)". He co-hosts since 2003 " provides a civil reflection on popular education ".