The network of the French Institute of Education called Lieux d’éducation associé (LéA) or Associated educational Places is intended to support and formalise the implementation of collective working spaces that bring together researchers and field actors (teachers, educators) to tackle educational m...
This article analyses the design and implementation of a teaching sequence (elementary school) dealing with memory and history of daily life in the 20th century. It questions the didactic potential of testimonies to develop pupils’ critical thinking through an inquiry process. The testimonies collec...
This article points out effective curriculum of pre-primary school teachers, in the field of exploring the world of objets and material, according to a didactic curriculum approach. The development of a typology of activities in this field enables us to elaborate five principal didactic types and to...
As part of the enquiry on the teaching of writing to adults who lack formal education, it has been observed that some of them do not take home what was dealt with during the training sessions and leave the provided documents at the training organisation. So, for these people the training space and n...
A recent quantitative survey reports on the circulation of notebooks and binders between preschool and families, carriers of generic name (life notebook) and disciplinary. Questioning the presence of these disciplinary forms in preschool, we present the results of a diachronic study of pre-elementar...
This article deals with an illustration of the transformation of a personal reasoning into a research question. It focuses on the didactic analysis of a university work plan, involving individual and collective dimensions.It comes within the scope of both a questioning on the entry into research, tr...
In the official texts of the French Ministry of Education (Spanish teaching), they refer to the great museums, cultural heritage, and different modes of expression as Paintings. After having identified the role and functions of Hispanic masterpieces, as a learning and teaching medium, in the context...
This article focuses on pupils’ difficulties in solving time calculations between two nearby events and in finding the spring date on a calendar. It focuses on the multiplicity of learning objectives regarding the calendar and its complex role. It shows the interest of designing multidisciplinary si...
From the monkey motif present in all the versions of the cycle of Othovian, associated with the character of Florent, this contribution proposes to wonder about the narrative and symbolic role of an animal whose connotations are often negative (association with the devil). The course takes into acco...
This paper contributes to the reflection on collective workspaces supporting new pedagogical approaches in higher education. It questions the characteristics of the space to be built in order to fit into a developmental perspective. A collective workspace having a physical and a digital dimension is...
This study shows how didactic regulations of sudents in final year of high school are shaped in joint action from those of their teacher, during lessons of discus throw organized in autonomous working groups. The knowledges selected by the professor as well as the way he stages them determine those...
This article emphasizes the processes generating inequalities in life and Earth sciences learning. Taking into consideration studies which take place within the theoretical framework of the problematization, I present an analysis of the summaries teachers provide at the end of their lessons. The qua...
The way children enter in the scientific culture in an elementary school is studied in this article through particular objects : argumentative maps. These argumentative maps are co-constructed between students and their teacher through the use of the computer and a particular software called Digalo....
With a historical perspective, the paper reports on the extension of technical artifacts to technical systems in technology education within middle and high school. It analyses the process of their school and didactic adaptations. Their usual function is then diverted to answer the constraints and r...
This slightly provocative title intimates that in history, the pedagogical act sometimes requires taking a few liberties with scientific “truth”. In other words, that the teaching of history cannot be entirely assimilated by a simple transmission of preconstructed knowledge in the field of the disci...
This article examines the use of electronic tactile tablets by very young children from 3 to 5 years old. Since research on the educational uses of tablets is mostly done in the context of the classroom, our study focuses more specifically on computer-assisted observations of motor and cognitive dif...
Two texts from the acts of the first national conference on the didactics of history and geography of 1986 are republished here : the contributions of Henri Moniot and François Audigier. These texts put theoretical questions back at the heart of the didactics of the disciplines of the social world....
This article presents the results of a study looking at how pre-service teachers understand and (re)shape the contents of an Interculturalism course in their discourse. Interculturalism is understood as the dynamic relationship to representations of self and the other present in all interactions. Th...
This contribution revisits two experiments ; one conducted in the University Institute of Technology and the other in a Master’s course of language sciences. The first part, which is based on previous work, presents tested plans – creative writing workshops supplemented by tools aimed at reflection...
Researches have already been undertaken in the field of robotics in kindergarten attesting the students’ ability to manipulate computer programs. What about primary school ? This contribution aims to present some results of a research on teaching practices in the field of computer science in primary...
This article is interested in the notion of intercultural and particularly in the field of education. The intercultural tends to be polysemic, notably according to the research field, and merits continuously to be questioned. First of all transported by speeches of the Council of Europe, intercultur...