L’épreuve de hors-programme à l’agrégation de géographie : héritages et renouvellement (2003-2016)

Abstract

The ‘Agrégation’ is the highest French teaching qualification, composed in part of an oral test without defined syllabus called “leçon de hors programme”. It has an especially strong symbolic dimension among students, based on its difficulty, and yet few researchers have examined its content and evolutions throughout the years. This paper intends to address this lack of coverage in the literature with both a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the specific part of the leçon. Starting from the last major reform of 2002, this paper questions the topics, the subfields and the spaces of the geographic discipline tackled by this exam. Thus, it intends to reveal the Agrégation’s impact on the training of future teachers and its relationship with the scientific production of knowledge in Geography.

Keywords

• history of geography
• teaching geography
• university education
• French teaching qualification