Savoirs « situés » des enseignants d’EPS : le cas de l’activité de supervision active en gymnastique

• Main Authors: Marc Cizeron, Nathalie Gal-Petitfaux
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Universitaires du Mirail 2009-05-01
• Series: Sciences de la Société
• Subjects: knowledge; teaching; active supervision; gymnastics; anthropology
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sds/7612

This study examines the knowledge mobilized in the classroom by experienced Physical Education teachers during their action in a particular context of intervention, called “active supervision” in the scientific literature. The results indicate regularities in the spatial, gestural and linguistic organization of the teacher supervision activity. They also show regularities about the activity meaning for the teachers. To describe and justify their actions, the teachers resorted at three levels of knowledge. The first level corresponds to their actions organization in reference to postures of straightness and rigidity awaited at the pupils. The second level characterizes the knowledge of empirical causalities by which they justify the feedbacks they give to the pupils. The third level refers to the theoretical concepts (e.g., mechanics, energy, perception) that teachers clarify by images and metaphors to explain and justify the announced empirical causalities.