Biography

Zakaria Serir is the Director of the Centre for Teacher Education at the Primary Level (CEDP) at the University of Fribourg. In this capacity, he assumes major academic, pedagogical, and institutional responsibilities: overseeing primary teacher-education programmes, coordinating multidisciplinary teams of instructors and scientific staff, supporting students throughout their training, and guiding curricular and organisational transformations linked to the implementation of new training frameworks.

Holding a PhD in Educational Sciences, he conducts research on school–family relationships, educational inequalities, language practices in teaching contexts, and collaborative dynamics between teachers, students, and researchers in training. His work is situated at the intersection of didactics and critical sociology. It examines classroom interactions, knowledge-transmission arrangements, and the institutional structures that shape them, while analysing power relations, mechanisms of selection, and forms of invisibilisation that permeate educational practices.

In parallel, he is involved in the initial and continuing education of teachers, where he combines practice-based inquiry, professional reflexivity, and issues of educational justice. By closely linking didactics and critical sociology, he aims to strengthen the dialogue between research, teacher education, and school practice, demonstrating how pedagogical choices, lesson frameworks, teaching resources, and classroom interactions are embedded in broader social contexts and contribute—sometimes unintentionally—to the reproduction or transformation of inequalities.