Abstract EN:

The principal objective of our study lies in analysing the representations of the elementary school teachers and pupil's parents in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the effects of these stereotypes on inter-group contacts. Throughout our study, we focused, namely, on the representation one group considers itself that can be more or less confirmed by the members of another group. In other terms, the representation that teachers develop on the members of their own group is confirmed by the stereotype of parents towards them. For the parents the situation is different : their own representation is not perceived by the teachers. From these considerations, one can wonder if teachers and parents involved with schools are conscious of these phenomenon. Are teachers aware to be considered the way they describe themselves ? Do parents know teachers consider them differently from the way they perceive themselves. Therefore our dissertation has double objectives : on one hand descriptive and on the other explainative in analysing the exchanges, the influences of the relationship between partners according to their positions.