Stage de récupération de points du permis de conduire : Quelles activités des formateurs ?

• Main Author: Alain Jean
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association Recherche et Pratique sur les Activités 2016-04-01
• Series: Activités
• Subjects: road safety; alternative conception in the use; unexpected incidents; the professional gesture of adjustment; activity
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/activites/2724

During a training course to recover driving licence points in France, we led research to compare the actual activity mobilized by the trainers during the two-day course with national road safety rules. As these training sessions are given by teams of two persons who are more or less randomly allocated to the courses, they often bring together differing conceptions of learning, driving and relationships with the law. Working from the hypothesis that trainers have to continue the work of conception initially developed on the basis of relatively inflexible national rules, we traced trainer activity throughout the course and conducted self-confrontation interviews. We highlight the instrumental geneses operated by the trainers with regard to this training device, which is considered as an artefact, the pragmatic concepts at play, and the combinations of professional gestures of adjustment employed to cope with unexpected incidents. Our results show that the training team have to develop alternative content as they go, in order to be able to conduct the training, preserve social peace during the courses and remain coherent with their values, their visions of the world and their own ways of behaving on the road.