Alexandre Dormeier Freire

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Education and training policies, educational analysis, skills development
• Knowledge society, knowledge networks
• Social inequalities
• Methods in social sciences
• Governance, decentralisation

Dr Dormeier Freire is Senior lecturer at the Graduate Institute and Asian Academic Coordinator of the International Executive Master in Development Studies (IHEID, Asian Institute of Technology). Dr Dormeier Freire earned a PhD in development studies at the University of Geneva. As a sociologist, he is mainly working on educational transformations with a special focus on skills development, internationalisation of education, social inequalities, education employment relations, educational choices and dropouts in emerging countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia. He is currently working on family role in educational and training choices in Southeast Asia and on dropouts school returnees. He is a member and former scientific collaborator of the Working Group for International Cooperation in Skills Development and NORRAG (Network for Policy Research, Review and Advice on Education and Training). He is a scientific board member of the Institute for Research on Educational Development (Vietnam).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• A. Dormeier Freire, J.-L. Maurer, Le dilemme de la décentralisation en Indonésie, Revue Archipel, No 64, EHESS-CNRS, Paris, 2002, pp. 255-287.
• A. Dormeier Freire, J.-Y. Martin, N. Henaff, Vietnam: Décentralisation et disparités dans l’offre educative, in C. Comeliau and alii, “Le défi social du développement: Globalisations et Inegalités”, IUED-Karthala, Collection DéveloppementS, Paris, 2006.
• A. Dormeier Freire, M. Hufty, V.Neumann, P. Plagnat (Dirs), Jeux de Gouvernance, Regards et Réflexions sur un Concept , IUED-Karthala, Collection “DeveloppementS”, Paris, 2007.
• A. Dormeier Freire, Pauline Plagnat, Gouvernance et relations économiques : les cas de la Corée du Sud et de l’Indonésie à la lumière de la crise, in « La Gouvernance : mode ou théorie ? », A. Dormeier Freire, M. Hufty, V. Neumann, P. Plagnat (Dirs), Jeux de Gouvernance, Regards et Réflexions sur un Concept, IUED-Karthala, Collection DéveloppementS, Paris, 2007.
• A. Dormeier Freire, Vu Bich Thuy, How Do National and International Actors Interact in Skills Development Strategies ? The Analysis of Vietnam under Doi Moi (1986-2004), IUED, Collection Etudes Courtes, No9, Genève, 2006.