Les jeux de la recherche collaborative : le cas du projet artistique

Abstract

This paper is based on a research situation in progress in the Language Sciences that was carried out in a national theater, a place for artistic creation and diffusion, as part of a Doctoral thesis under the CIFRE (Convention of Industrial Training through Research) agreement. A collaboration was initiated in 2016 between the Ministry of National Education and a common artistic project, Parlemonde. Meetings were organized between minority-language speaking students newly arrived in France, their teachers, multidisciplinary European artists, researcher and spectators in a joint creative experience. This collaboration is special because it is the first of its kind, requiring the expertise of each of the stake holders of the project (artists, teachers and students). All of them were moved to a vast games area involving a collaborative dynamics where questions, expectations, practices and positions of each of the players (including this researcher) were constantly in motion. The researcher’s place in this collaboration will be examined through a study of the “game” as a conventional activity subject to collaborative rules between the participants. What then are the rules to be co-constructed with the teams belonging to the organization funding the researcher and whose objectives are to develop a (or several) skills that none of the partners are in a position to develop by themselves? The consequences for the researcher and the organization will be examined by considering the game as an interval between two parts of the same process, an ideal interstitial space facilitating mediation, focusing particularly on the development of the researcher’s “game” in this context. The paper will examine these questions through a dialogue of two voices: that of the Director of the regional theater, and of the researcher funded by the organization, in order to allow the reader to understand the stakes that are “at play” in this type of fluid and changing context found at the heart of the social sphere.

Keywords

• game
• mediation
• training
• awareness
• plurilingualism
• didactics of languages