Analyse de l’activité de lycéens en situations pédagogiques de travail en groupe

Abstract

Teachers frequently put their students to work in group situations. This is a cooperative practice that seeks to initiate learning through the confrontation of ideas, in the form of socio-cognitive conflicts. These disagreements are hoped for, because they lead to constructive doubts which will then facilitate our relationship with knowledge. This research focuses on the activity of high school students from different disciplines who were instructed to study a problem situation in small groups. The analysis of video verbatims shows different realities each time. The groups rarely guided the students to question themselves and several avoidance strategies were identified. These identifications reveal a series of new hypotheses for the organization of group work that leads students to master goals and accept doubts.

Keywords

• activity
• cognitive conflict
• socio-cognitive conflict
• cooperation
• enrollment
• group work