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Yannick Le Marec, « Entre références scientifiques et ordre du discours, les « méthodes historiques » dans les textes officiels d’histoire », Spirale - Revue de recherches en éducation (documents), ID : 10.3406/spira.2008.1219
In 1987, in France, history teachers for the freshman courses in High schools were invited to present the French Revolution by the means of a «problematique » . In this contribution, I’m questioning this approach from an epistemological and didactical point of view. Indeed, the intention of the program’s drafters, since a century, is based on the desire to create links between scientific practices and school practices. Yet, in the case of the French Revolution, the reference to historians’practices, including debates, and to the fact that there are several ways of thinking and interpreting the event, is often considered as contrary to the expectations and ordinary practices at school. Our hypothesis is that, by playing what we call a «problématique » against the problem, we deprive ourselves of thinking about the relationship between historian construction of knowledge and history learning.