Naissance d’une coopération dans un ESAT : quand des moniteurs d’atelier, un travailleur et un chercheur apprennent à travailler ensemble

Abstract

For intellectually disabled adults, the place of fundamental knowledge (reading, writing and counting) remains a live question in our society where writing is omnipresent. This article is a description and an analysis of the first steps of an cooperation between members of a collective committed in a cooperative engineering (Sensevy, 2011) of which practice fields seem at first view distant from one another: staff in an ESAT (Etablissement Service d’Aide par le Travail: institution for help to disabled adults through work) adults with disabilities (called workers) and a researcher (the author of this article). More specifically, we will answer the following questions: what happens when actors from different cultures learn to work together? What is this new cooperation transforming? To do this, we will focus on cooperation in the ESAT restoration workshop between a worker, Walter, the instructors of this workshop and the researcher. Together, they will develop an accessibility tool, called constellation cards, that will allow Walter to mobilize counting in his professional activity.

Keywords

• cooperative engineering
• thought collective
• JATD (Joint action theory in didactics)
• intellectual disability
• ESAT (institution for help to disabled adults through work)
• assessment