Review of Science, Mathematics and ICT Education (Jul 2011)
Identifier les habiletés éducatives et gestes professionnels d’ajustement d’un Auxiliaire de vie scolaire accompagnant un élève autiste
Abstract
In French primary school, a school life assistant is subsidiary staff of the teacher, to help in the schooling of a handicapped pupil, in an ordinary class. This article redraws the synthesis of a research made within the framework of a Master's degree, about the activities of these school life assistants, in French primary school. The objective is to find out resources for a good regulation of this situation of help, especially educative gestures adjustment and educative skills needed for school life assistants to fulfil there missions. Through the study of the attitude of a school life assistant helping an autistic pupil, Métis (Ulysses'artifice) and the intelligence of Kaïros have been analysed concerning educative gestures adjustment, to give this educative situation a new intelligibility. The collaboration between the teacher and the assistant has also been observed, to think of better professional training.