Modélisation théorique de l’expérience mimétique et cours d’action : analyse de situations de formation en enseignement, santé, et sport

Abstract

This article presents a theoretical reflection on the study of processes of learning and development at work in the training environments which intentionally cause trainees to consider other peoples’ worlds. These environments are based on videos of real work or on the in-situ observation of simulations and/or supported accompanied practices. They solicit articulation between mimetic, reflexive, projective and play processes. Over the 2011-2020 period, three studies on video-training and/or simulation situations in various professional fields (teachers, midwifes and carriage drivers training) were carried out within the framework of the empirical research program known as the “Course of action” (Theureau, 2004, 2006) or as “enactive cultural anthropology” (Theureau, 2015). Theoretical modelling was developed to account for these silent and complex social mimesis processes (Wulf, 2007) of linking agents’ experiences (immersion, imitation, emulation, “acting similarly to”, representation, anticipation). This theoretical reduction based on the hexatomy of the course of action unit opens up some methodological paths to both better comprehend the implicit dimensions of physical and sensitive activity, that are very highly active in this relation to the world of others and to better understand the conditions of action performativity (mimesis as a creative remake vs mimesis as a copy of reality).

Keywords

• mimetic experience
• video-training
• high fidelity simulation
• allo-confrontation
• course of experience