La formation professionnelle entre injonction à la numérisation et impératif de sobriété

Abstract

The injunction to practice the digital sobriety came over the management rationalization processes, to which training actors are already subjected. But sobriety is not just about reducing environmental and energy footprints, but also social ones. These three types of footprints, which are interdependent and in tension, are unevenly distributed with respect to socio-professional category, gender, age, place etc. Thus, the measures envisaged to reduce these footprints, if not adapted to the different configurations, may exacerbate inequalities, or create new ones, which weighs on their acceptability and effectiveness. This risk of rejection is increased by the complexity of regulations at different levels, both national and international. Practicing sobriety therefore depends on trainers’ capacity for initiative, their room for action, and therefore on collective and organizational factors specific to each local context. But the “turnkey” solutions don’t exist. Everything remains to be done, starting with the ad hoc indicators needed to assess locally the extent of these footprints, and subsequently to measure the effectiveness of the measures tested. By putting the work of trainers back at the forefront, this article offers a framework for exploratory and prospective thinking, and raises the question of the de-industrialization of training.

Keywords

• vocational training
• digital sobriety
• digital technologies
• agency
• inequalities
• indicators