Interdisciplinary research laboratory in didactics, education and training

ALFA

The ALFA team conducts research in the field shared by the teaching of French, literature, modern languages and the arts. Its fields of reference are educational science, language science and the "sciences of the arts". Its common thread is the role of language as an instrument for the elaboration of situational knowledge and the development of the subject, as well as an instrument for the joint activity of teacher and pupil. As such, ALFA focuses on the way in which the analysis of language in the classroom enables us to understand how, around precisely identified objects of knowledge in their specific context, the professional gestures of teachers and the activity of students enter into a configuration, or not.

The relationship between language and schoolwork, language and the construction of knowledge, attitudes and values, language and the construction of the subject and his or her academic, social and professional identity, are at the heart of ALFA's concerns. At the same time, the team attaches specific interest to the factors that produce differences between students, which its analyses help to clarify. As such, it participates in the national seminar RE.S.E.I.D.A (REcherches sur la Socialisation, l'Enseignement, les Inégalités et les Différenciations dans les Apprentissages).

This interest in the reflexive and transformative power of language in the school context has led us to develop specific analytical tools to bring this out more clearly. These tools, developed for research purposes, are applied to improving teacher training, which is the priority research focus for all members of the LIRDEF team.

Team composition

Manager :Caroline Blanvillain

Permanent members:Brahim Azaoui,Sandrine Bazile,Christine Boutevin,Caroline Blanvillain, Dominique Bucheton, Chantal Buffa,Jean-Charles Chabanne, Alain Decron, Martine Dreyfus,Catherine Dupuy,Franck Leblanc, Pierre Gaucher,Aldo Gennaï,Brigitte Louichon,Agnès Perrin-Doucey,Rita Peix, Patricia Richard-Principalli,Stéphane Soulaine,Frédéric Torterat.

Doctoral students :Eleonora Acerra, Isabelle Aliaga,Hélène Castany-Owhadi, Ana Castelo, Hélène Cuin, Yoann Daumet, Dayb Manuela Oliviera Dos Santos, Biolas De Khovrine, Maïté Eugène, Calin Hetes, Mansour Issa, Cynthia Le Joncour, Oneil N. Madden, Eleni Ntalampyra, Boxel Oxine,Hélène Raux, Luis Eyen Reina Garcia.

Post-docs: Stéphanie Genre, Virginie Polge-Loï.

Research projects

  • 2016-2020TALC: "From text to classroom". ALFA lead researcher: B. Louichon. Researchers involved: E. Acerra, S. Bazile, C. Boutevin, A. Gennaï, M. Eugène, C. Dupuy, S. Leblanc, A. Perrin-Doucey, H. Raux, Y. Soulé, F. Torterat.
  • 2014-2019LINUM3: "Lire, dire, écrire avec la LIttérature de jeunesse et le NUMérique et la Maîtrise de la langue et culture de l'écrit à l'école". ALFA lead researcher: A. Perrin-Doucey. Researchers involved: E. Acerra, S. Bazile, C. Dupuy, Ph. Gabriel, B. Louichon, Y. Soulé
  • 2014-2019PELAS:"Pratiques effectives de la lecture analytique dans le secondaire en France et en Belgique", project directed by Sylviane Ahr and I. de Perettti. ALFA lead researcher: S. Bazile. Researchers involved: Ch. Boutevin, A. Perrin-Doucey.
  • 2015AlféA(rt): "Arts, languages, training, education, learning (research and transfer)". Project led by J. Ch. Chabanne, ENS de Lyon/IFE (ACTé laboratory). ALFA lead researcher: J.Ch. Chabanne. Researchers involved: M.D. Bidard, C. Dupuy, J.J. Félix, M.E. Penancier, Y. Soulé. Associated researchers: M. Parayre, E. Villagordo.
  • 2013-2018LireEcrireCP: Étude de l'influence des pratiques d'enseignement de la lecture et de l'écriture sur la qualité des premiers apprentissages, national project directed by R. Goigoux, U. Clermont-Ferrand/IFE-ENS Lyon. Lead researchers at ALFA: M. Dreyfus, C. Gomila. Researchers involved : J. Ch. Chabanne, Writing group: C. Dupuy, Y. Soulé ; Acculturation group :S. Bazile, A. Perrin-Doucey. Master trainers and DEA.

Seminars and symposia

  • Colloque " Approches analytiques des textes littéraires dans le secondaire : quelles pratiques pour quels enjeux ", March 28-30, ESPE Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Site Croix de Pierre, link to the framework text .
  • Colloque XIXe rencontres des chercheurs en didactique de la littérature,littérature(s) et langues(s) en classe : quelle circulation entre méthodologies de recherche er pratiques enseignantes, June 21-23, 2018, Lausanne,link to framing text.
  • Colloquium Exhibition Voir/Montrer la guerre aujourd'hui, March 14-16, 2018, Faculty of Education, University of Montpellier,link to website
  • Entre croyances et savoirs: comment penser le monde et ses vérités à l'école, January 18, 2018, Faculty of Education, University of Montpellier,link to website
  • Journée d'Études" Research and development in digital schooling: from projects to research data", November 29, 2017, Faculty of Education, University of Montpellier,link to website
  • November 10, 2017 -Teaching theater and poetrytoday
  • October 19, 2017 IFE Lyon -PELASstudy day
  • Interuniversity symposium "Fraternité en éducation, éducation à la fraternité: un enjeu pour l'école du XXIe siècle",May 24-25, 2016, Faculty of Education, ESPE LR, University of Montpellier, link to website
  • XVIIe rencontres des chercheurs en didactique de la littérature: "Enseigner la littérature en dialogue avec les arts, confrontations, échanges et articulations entre didactique de la littérature et didactiques des arts, June 1-3, 2016,Institut Français de l'Éducation, ENS de Lyon,link to website
  • Colloque " Pratiques artistiques & processus de création de l'école à l'université: Regards pluridisciplinaires et transversaux ", September 30 to October 1, 2016, Nîmes (Faculté d'éducation et Carré d'art),link to website