RDST est une revue internationale de didactique des sciences et des technologies, issue de la fusion de deux revues : Aster et de Didaskalia. RDST étudie le domaine de l'apprentissage et de l'enseignement des sciences et des technologies, de la maternelle à l'université, dans différents contextes (scolaires, muséologiques, etc.). Chaque numéro de la revue est composé d'une partie thématique et d'une partie varia elle même séparée en plusieurs rubriques : articles, compte-rendu d'innovation, notes de lecture. La revue s'adresse aux chercheurs en didactique des sciences, aux formateurs, aux enseignants de sciences et de technologies et plus généralement à tous ceux qui s'intéressent la diffusion des savoirs scientifiques et technologiques.
The teaching reform of industrial engineering sciences obliges teachers from various specialties to teach the “Enseignement Technologique Transversal” (ETT) subject. Since this reform, Industrial Science teachers have been teaching within the framework of ETT which is common to all specialties. The...
Ce dossier ouvre à la discussion les orientations curriculaires des recherches en didactiques des sciences et des technologies, c’est-à-dire leurs problématiques, leurs enjeux et leurs fonctions, leurs méthodologies, les expertises développées et assumées, leurs modalités d’association ou de coopéra...
This article aims at describing and analysing the ordinary teaching practices in science and technology education (STE) in Kindergarten. In a context of non-disciplinary curriculum, a double investigation of these practices, recorded in logbooks and interviews, and declared in a questionnaire, first...
In this text, we develop different guidelines for a curricular didactic of vocational training consistent with competency-based approach. On the basis of a theory of professional actions and their learning, coming from the theoretical framework of vocational didactic, we present the definition of th...
Les problématiques curriculaires tiennent au sein des recherches en didactique des sciences et des technologies une position paradoxale. Au moment où les enseignements scientifiques et technologiques connaissent de profondes reconfigurations, suscitant ainsi des recherches privilégiant des points de...
A content analysis of five teaching sessions on human Sex education (SE) in Lebanon shows the absence of participatory teaching style, of argumentation and the predominance of the biomedical dimension of human sexuality. Students who followed the five recorded courses are in the didactic contract; t...
The acquisition of a scientific culture by citizens and especially by children is part of societal and academic issues. The concept of life cycle, characterized by sexual reproduction, can be considered as one of the key concepts for the development of an ecosystem thinking. However, several studies...
Informed collective action, also known as activism, oriented to solve society´s problems, offers opportunities to life-long learning and allows students to learn about science and technology. So, this action-research intended, on the one hand, to equip future teachers with the skills necessary for t...
This article reports a socio-historical approach of the disciplinary form of biology that is supposed to be teached. This study is based on a corpus made of 11 official texts defining the curriculum and 32 textbooks. It mobilizes the concept of registers and tries to take into account the specificit...
We propose, in this article, a methodological reflexion regarding the development of a close-ended questionnaire named UnRESt (Understanding, Randomness and Evolution for Students), to explore lower secondary school students’ conception of evolution in biology. This questionnaire, composed of statem...
In the current context where didactic research and methodologies are the target of many critics, we study a research method frequently used in didactics of biology and geology: the case study. This approach seems almost unavoidable in research in science didactics so that researchers sometimes forge...
We conducted an experimental design activity in biology with 12th grade students (17-18 years old), who use the LabBook software. The first goal of this research is to identify and compare with the literature, the initial misconceptions of these students on the living and more specifically on the al...
In technological disciplines, knowledge is at the interface of science, engineering and socio-professional practices. A multireferential approach for reference knowledge allows a better consideration of the complexity of professional situations. With the example of agronomy, a technological discipli...
This paper discusses the question of the validity of the results produced by a study of teachers' responses to a questionnaire to assess their knowledge and practice concerning students’ conceptions. After discussing the need to go beyond the opposition between declared and effective practice, we pr...
Ce livre est une version intégrale de la thèse de doctorat de l’auteur, intitulée La philosophie de Georges Canguilhem à travers son enseignement, 1929-1971 : examen du concept d’action (2015). La thèse d’Emiliano Sfara s’appuie sur la lecture de textes inédits de Canguilhem, accessibles depuis peu...
Pourquoi un dossier sur la validité des recherches en didactique des sciences et des technologies (DST) ? Après tout, dans un grand nombre de disciplines on s’en tient à faire de la recherche et à soumettre à la critique des pairs chaque projet de publication. Mais il se trouve que les recherches en...
This article deals with the analysis of teaching ordinary practices related to the qualitative characteristics of a chemical reaction at grade 10 in Tunisia. The observed teacher is recognized by the institution as an expert. Our theoretical framework is based on the Joint Action Theory in Didactics...
1. La validité des résultats en didactique des sciences et des technologies : un objet en tension Pourquoi un dossier sur la validité des recherches en didactique des sciences et des technologies (DST) ? Après tout, dans un grand nombre de disciplines on s’en tient à faire de la recherche et à soume...
This contribution aims at questioning an interdisciplinary device on three levels (trainers, students, and pupils) in the initial training of teachers. It relies on a reflexive analysis based on Fourez’s methodology for creating areas of interdisciplinary rationality. Various slow-downs and tools of...
This article investigates how narrative methods that proceed backward in time (i.e. analepses) are used by field-geologists mediators when addressing non specialists. Focusing on a recorded speech by a mediator-geologist, we identify and comment on the techniques of narration. In particular, we disc...
Life and earth-sciences rely on a variety of rationales, that can be broadly classified into “functional” and “historical” categories. The first deals with mechanisms and largely relies on experimental approaches, while the second is involved in the inference of past events, on the basis of multiple...
Introduction Depuis les années 2000 qui ont vu l’apparition dans les textes officiels de dispositifs visant à favoriser au sein des classes les rencontres entre les disciplines, nombre d’entre eux se sont succédé notamment dans l’enseignement secondaire, ces dispositifs privilégiant des approches pa...
Cet ouvrage porte sur les problèmes que rencontre la « Sex and Relationship Education » (SRE) au Royaume-Uni, l’équivalent de l’éducation à la sexualité en France. Il comporte huit chapitres en plus d’une introduction et d’une conclusion. À la suite de l’introduction, trois chapitres dressent le cad...
This article seeks to discuss from an interdisciplinary point of view a reading activity that uses a realistic fiction novel to foster socio-scientific questions. This activity is based on the idea that realistic fiction narratives can provide a relevant contextual framework to promote scientific li...
In order to train 12th grade students for the evaluation of their experimental skills at the French baccalauréat, we aimed at producing a teaching situation in which the students learn to design their own experiment: an acid/base titration. This idea has been the start of a study following a Design-...