My research paper : “L’Orientation professionnelle désassignée” has just been published on ZENODO Open Science!

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my full manuscript in a fully open science approach (in French), freely accessible to all.
👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15607008

This work offers a critical and transdisciplinary reconstruction of the professional orientation process.

It deconstructs the logics of influence, implicit assignment, and the discourses that perpetuate the illusion of a “free choice.”

🧭 Rather than offering yet another prescriptive model or roadmap, this text opens a space for reflection grounded in emancipation, reflexivity, and the ecology of choice.

🎯 Because one cannot seriously claim to foster autonomy through inherited, vague or instrumentalized frameworks, without ever examining their foundations.

It speaks to those who:

• claim to support others ethically, yet never question their own framework, posture, or assumptions;

• rely on tools without understanding their theoretical grounding, implicit logic, or real-world effects;

• seek to bring critical thinking and genuinely ethical co-construction back to the core of the orientation process;

• invoke "autonomy", without ever deepening what it actually implies or measuring the real effects of their own practices;

• unknowingly reproduce the very biases they claim to fight: systems that, under the guise of care and support, reinforce gender stereotypes, normalize social inequality, and render invisible the mechanisms of assignment and constrained consent — all while invoking autonomy.

This is not a handbook of ready-made solutions.
It offers a rigorous framework for thinking differently.

📖 The full manuscript is openly available. Here is the official citation:

Vivier, P. (2025). L'orientation professionnelle désassignée (1st ed.). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15607008

🔜 Coming soon:

• a training manual for career guidance professionals,

• a dedicated program for parents actively involved in their teenagers’ orientation,

• and a free guide (October/November) to help families navigate orientation with clarity, beyond the usual filters.

This is not a text to consume.
It is a text to think with — and to work through.