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This special report is a collection of papers on various topics: teacher dissatisfaction, student political socialization, the aesthetic dimension in curricular projects, etc. Can a new policy concept emerge from these everyday problems? The democratization project, a perspective once shared by all educational actors, is now in crisis. International organizations promote a model based on the selection of an international elite and the concept of lifelong learning. Many actors are suffering, some secretly resisting, even though suffering or resistance cannot lead to a political solution. If dialectics gives equal consideration to both negative and positive moments; why not take this principle as the starting point to suggest renewed investigations into the sociology of education and training, including exploring the negative aspects (suffering, deception, resistance) induced by the new world order, formalizing them, explaining new definitions of the common good and its few simple pleasures? The papers in this report lay some foundations and are an invitation to extend the field of studies and interrogation.