Rubi Stephanie

Rubi Stephanie serves as a University Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at Paris Cité University, affiliated with the CERLIS research center. She holds key leadership positions including Co-Director of the Department of Educational Sciences, Co-editor of the journal Research and Training, Vice President of Social Careers Editions, and Co-president of OVLEJ (Observatory of holidays and leisure activities for children and young people).

Her research program critically examines the triad of deviance, gender, and education through processes of normalization and attribution of deviant identities in educational institutions. Focusing on contexts marked by plural inequalities (social, academic, spatial, gendered, ethnic), she investigates female juvenile delinquency, school disorders, youth experiences in school/leisure settings, school violence, and early fatherhood. This work reveals mechanisms of social/gendered role distribution while analyzing public policies related to youth education and implicit models of social justice.

Recent publications demonstrate sustained focus on historical and contemporary analyses of school disorders in French research (2020-2022), alongside explorations of flipped classroom methodologies, gaming professionals in leisure contexts, and historical cases of supervised education. Her 2019 work extends into legal analyses of juvenile vulnerability and sexual discernment within the French penal system.

Stephanie actively leads research through CERLIS and OVLEJ, with the latter examining leisure activities and holiday experiences for children and youth across diverse social contexts.