Les représentations des tuteurs en FAD à l’égard de leurs pratiques et de leurs fonctions tutorales

Abstract

This research deals with the study of tutorial practices by interviewing the Social Representatives (SRs) of tutors. It follows a first work that characterized real activities in several distance formations. The study of the social representations of the tutors is conceived as a triangulation process. This choice is justified by the role of social representations in orienting practices and explaining them. For this purpose, our study starts with an analysis of all the interactions of learners / tutors in mediated distance training (FAD) to identify behaviors. It then analyzes, the SRs of the tutors with regard to their practices, their functions in order to understand them and explain them. The aim is not only to verify the validity of the models evoked by the research and the case studies, but also to understand how the tutors reappropriate them and put them into practice. In other words, it is a question of detecting in a first phase how the tutors act and fulfill their roles and their functions. Then, in a second phase, to determine which SRs are guiding their practices and perceptions of the duties and profession of the tutor in the ADF. In this research we are interested in this second phase.

Keywords

• tutorship functions
• social representations
• business tutor
• distance training devices
• tutoring.