Organisateurs de l’activité et rapport au curriculum recommandé des étudiants-stagiaires d’EPS en formation par alternance

Abstract

This study aims to gain a better understanding of the possible discrepancy between the actual curriculum and its prescribed specifications. Its purpose is to describe what directs and guides the activity of four in-service training PE student teachers in order to identify how they deal with curriculum recommendations - including those promoting competency-based education. The data collected combine the video recordings of badminton lessons (one per student teacher) and three interviews (ante session, self- and peer-confrontation). The analysis consisted in identifying the organizational principles of the student teacher’s activity (Vinatier, 2013). The findings highlight three associated but prioritised concerns that are the basis of the student teachers’ activity: building their identity as a teacher; stimulating and maintaining the pupils’ interest; promoting the pupils’ learning. The analysis shows that even though student teachers may be guided by the curriculum recommendations, they tend to only select those that meet their concerns.

Keywords

• activity
• student teachers
• organizational principles
• relationship to the curriculum
• physical education
• teachers