According to Institutional Analysis (Lourau), everyone is involved in the institutions through which he passes and that cross him. Special education teacher working in a French elementary school, in a class hosting children with mental disabilities, I began a career as a researcher from my questioning about the violences that were expressed in my class. When a practitioner-researcher undertakes a research on his workplace, its involvement and over-involvement operate a double movement on his research and practice. This movement has effects on these two workplaces. What impact my involvement and my over-involvement in these professional fields have they produced?
institutional analysis; involvement; over-involvement; practitioner-researcher; school violence