Accompagner des enseignants de l’enseignement professionnel dans un changement de posture entre héritage du métier et transmission en enseignement

Abstract

This text presents a guidance process in response to eminently identity-related questions that many vocational teachers ask themselves in Quebec: How can they make evident what is implicit in a trade when they themselves are outside the work context? Are they really teaching the same trade that they knew themselves? It is also important to be sensitive to vocational teachers’ implicit fear of having to mourn their discipline as well as their concern about the obsolescence of the practical knowledge being taught. The course Histoire et culture de métier [trade history and culture] accordingly aims, among other things, to address this delicate posture of a teacher located “between the trade and teaching” by aligning it with a teaching competency that invites the instructor to “act as a professional who is inheritor, critic and interpreter of knowledge…” (Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec, 2001).

Keywords

• continuing education
• vocational teaching
• training device
• guidance process
• cultural approach to teaching