Kit Press PERF Arbitrage Web Janvier 2014

Press Kit
University Centre of Expertise,
Research, Training In
Refereeing
PERF Arbitrage
January 2014
PERF Arbitrage, a unique structure in France
The fruit of a historic partnership between the French football and rugby
federations, the La Poste group and University Blaise Pascal, PERF Arbitrage is a
partner structure dedicated to refereeing. This university centre contributes to the
recognition and development of refereeing thanks to the establishment of training,
research and their distribution.
PERF Arbitrage: a structure federating a variety of players to serve
refereeing
PERF Arbitrage brings together people from academia, the sports world, regional
government and the socio-economic world. Its members are:
-University Blaise Pascal
- Groupe La Poste
- French Federation of Football (Fédération Française de Football-FFF)
- French Federation of Rugby (Fédération Française de Rugby-FFR)
-The city of Clermont-Ferrand
-The Auvergne region
This diversity of players is one of the strengths of PERF Arbitrage to develop
innovative proposals and work for the recognition and development of refereeing.
Its management board has 15 members:
Pascal Garibian
Mathias Bernard
Alain Bussière
Eric Dore
Pascale Duche
Christine Dulac-Rougerie
Joël Dume
Sabine Foucher
Jean-Raphaël Gaitey
Didier Mene
Alain SARS
Vincent Relave
Géraldine Rix-eLièvre
French Federation of Football, National Referees
Director
University Blaise Pascal (UBP), President of University
Blaise Pascal
Region Auvergne, First Vice-President of the Auvergne
region, Responsible for research and higher learning
University Blaise Pascal, Lecturer, Director of UFR
STAPS
University Blaise Pascal, Professor, member of the
UBP Board of Directors
City of Clermont, Councillor for Sports of the city of
Clermont
French Federation of Rugby, Refereeing National
Technical Director
Ministry of Sports, Youth and Popular Education and
Associations, Sports Division
Groupe La Poste, Responsible for sports partnerships
French Federation of Rugby, President of the
Referees Central Commission
French Federation of Football, Deputy Director
Groupe La Poste, Director of Communication, VicePresident of PERF
University Blaise Pascal, Lecturer-HDR, Executive
Officer of PERF Arbitrage
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Marie-Christine Toczek
Georges Vigarello
University Blaise Pascal, Professor, Director of
Laboratory ACTé
School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences
(L’école des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
EHESS), Director of Studies, President of PERF
Arbitrage
PERF Arbitrage is chaired by Georges Vigarello, director of studies at School of
Higher Studies in Social Sciences (L’école des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales - EHESS) co-director of the Centre Edgar Morin – interdisciplinary institute
of contemporary anthropology.
Professor of Physical and Sports Education, and professor of philosophy, in 1977, he
defended his thesis: Le corps redressé, culture et pédagogie (lit. The straightened
body, culture and pedagogy). He contributed to founding Sciences and Techniques
of Physical and Sports Activities and Educational Sciences. Docteur honoris causa at
the University of Montreal and University of Lausanne, Georges Vigarello is an
internationally renowned expert on the body, sport and the evolution of physical
exercise. He has written a number of books including Une histoire culturelle du
sport, techniques d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (1988, Robert Laffont and EPS), Passion
sport, histoire d’une culture, (2000, Textuel), Du jeu ancien au show sportif, la
naissance d’un mythe, (2001, Seuil) and more recently, Les métamorphoses du
gras, histoire de l’obésité (2010, Seuil).
The missions of PERF Arbitrage: training, research,
recognition
An all-new University Diploma dedicated to high-level refereeing
Created in 2007, the “High-Level Sport and Refereeing” university diploma is
dedicated to the continuing training of high-level referees. It offers university
recognition to referees and an activity that is become increasingly professional. It
contributes to building, around referees, resources to help them deal with the
demands of high-level sport and to evolve refereeing in a constantly changing
sports environment.
Since its creation, this initiative has received the support of La Poste, partner of
referees, and in partnership with the French rugby, handball, football and
basketball federations.
In addition to the technical training provided by the various federations, it proposes
specific training which allows referees to transform their activity to adapt to the growing
demands of high-level sport. The training course’s content is based on scientific work and
offers a variety of tools to analyse their experiences, giving them an opportunity to step
back and look at their practice with an objective eye, in order to develop it. It also offers
new possibilities for discussions (with referees from other team sports, researchers in a
variety of disciplines and experts), helping referees to consider key issues of refereeing
from different viewpoints.
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At a time when sport is focussing increasingly on economic and social issues, when to deal
with these changes, refereeing requires more and more investments from officials, when
referees either become professionals or put their own careers on hold to fulfil their
mission, this diploma constitute a bridge to diplomas in Sciences and Techniques of
Physical and Sporting Activities, offering them an opportunity to retrain in a field in which
they’ve invested themselves.
Three classes have already completed the course: the first in 2009, the second in
2011, the third class in 2013, graduates include Freddy Fautrel (L1), Clément
Turpin (L1), ), William Bien (L1), Régis Bardera (Pro A), Paul Antiphon (Pro A),
Abdel Hamzaoui (Pro A), Jean-Pierre Moreno (LNH), Jérôme Garcès (Top14), Pascal
Gauzère (Top 14) and Romain Poite (Top 14), Laurent Cadona (Top 14), Cédric
Marchat (Top 14).
A “Sports Refereeing” Option in all branches of study
It quickly became clear that additional training was needed not only by high-level
referees, but also by less-experienced referees, offering them the opportunity
upon entry at university to register for a double project, both university and sport
through the “Sports Refereeing” option.
The “Sports Refereeing” option represents 10 ECTS/year (5 ECTS in the Polytech
track)
The refereeing courses combines theory and practice:
Training by and for referees
Technical knowledge related to the practice of sport and refereeing
Scientific knowledge of refereeing
Methodological tools (written and oral expression, English) directed towards
refereeing
Since September 2012, University Blaise Pascal has welcomed young football and
rugby referees, students in various university branches of study. For three years,
they will work to prepare their Bachelor’s degree, training in match management,
analysis of refereeing practice and feedback, conflict and stress management,
physical preparation and recovery, etc.
Research activities
These activities focus on the study of real-life refereeing situations and are based
on an innovative conception of refereeing. Far from reducing it to the application
of rules, we consider that referees show players what is possible and in imposing it
on them, remove any uncertainty about the events. Research focusses more
specifically on:
- modes of coordination between the referee and players
This work originates in the alternative conception of refereeing that we have
created, suggesting that we consider that the referee co-constructs game play with
the players. We study the levers and obstacles to coordination between the referee
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and players even as they act together despite a confrontation and different—even
antagonistic—goals.
- referees’ group activity
This project conducted as part of a CIFRE thesis with Groupe La Poste, also falls
under the continuing work on referees’ judgements. While early work focussed on
the central referee, this research considers the refereeing team and the way it
works. We study whether and how each member of the refereeing team helps to
construct, show and impose on players what is possible.
- referee performance and group construction rules of the profession
This project examines the performance and working conditions of the high-level
referee. The way in which each member of the system (player, coach, media,
supervisor, etc.) establishes referee performance is documented, showing the
diversity of expectations, and even antagonisms which the referee has to deal with
and the tensions caused by them. Part of the work focusses on the possibilities of
assigning refereeing towards a group construction of explicit compromises on what
constitutes quality refereeing.
All of these research results on refereeing are compared with other work on
teaching, service professions and management practices. The goal is to consider
how these results allow us to re-examine different situations of asymmetrical
interaction where one player designated by the institution shows and imposes on
the others what is possible and is responsible for the proper functioning of the
interaction.
Promotional activities
These involve:
- communication, scientific divulgation and outreach
- creation of a documentation centre (physical and virtual)
- construction of a network of experts
PERF aims to contribute to the development of refereeing alongside institutions,
providing them with a true expert centre, a reference in refereeing.
Contact
Carine Mascarenhas, Responsable administrative du PERF Arbitrage
[email protected]
04 73 40 78 55
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