 Back in France, she worked relentlessly to elaborate and apply new paradigms in the French state educational systems, initially by the insertion of institutional psychopedagogy in the training courses of school teachers and later as a prominent researcher and administrator of the National Centre for Pedagogical Documentation (, CNDP), the office within the French Ministry of Education that publishes teaching training materials.Françoise Blime was also member of a number of prestigious think-tanks in the field of education, such as the Teaching League (La Ligue de l’Enseignement) and was awarded the Palmes Académiques.Françoise Blime was born Françoise Dutertre on July 11, 1939 in Paris, France.