Expériences de recherches-collaboratives au service de l’éducation en situation postcoloniale : enjeux, scientificité et légitimité

Abstract

Through the description of two (notably different) research programs dedicated to the inclusion of Oceanian languages in New Caledonia’s diglossic context, the aim of this paper is to study the processes and implications of co-development when it comes to building knowledge. This comparison raises and enlightens many epistemological and ethical questions. We believe action research in education should be built as in cooperative approach gathering teachers in training, practicing teachers and researchers from various disciplinary fields. However, the relationship between research teams and teachers is still fragile (Nusbaum, 2008: 127). In addition, research implies an act of power as it constructs social realities and legitimizes them through scientific popularisation (Heller 2002) sometimes without everyone’s consent. Action research that integrates interventions seems more efficient to us on both ethical values and the construction of knowledge.

Keywords

• collaborative research
• situated didactics
• multilingualism
• multiliteracy
• co-involvment
• didactics of languages