Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in Didactics, Education, and Training

Sebastien Chaliès

University Professor

Research topics

My scientific work aims to contribute to a "research program" focusing onthe construction of the subject at work and/or in training. More broadly, it contributes to what could be an anthropology of professional life, professional life taken in professions undergoing change in light of major societal issues (ecological, social, and solidarity-related).

From a theoretical perspective, my work falls within the realm of "culturalist" anthropology, drawing heavily on the philosophical and anthropological work of L. Wittgenstein and his many interpreters (notably J. Bouveresse, C. Chauviré, P. De Lara, S. Laugier, P. Steiner, S. Cavell, and C. Taylor). The professional subject is approached using key concepts such as "form of life," "(in)expressiveness," "normative and anthropological capacities," "background (rules, language games, values), "experience," "activity," "techniques," and/or "intention." The conditions of its construction, particularly in terms of working conditions and/or training, are explored using concepts such as "ostensive/ostensible teaching," "support," "regimes of reflexivity," "degrees of consciousness," and "normativity."

From a methodological perspective, a transformative approach based on the consubstantiality of scientific and technological objectives is favored. Tools for collecting and processing data, which are often composite and mixed, are used.

The development of professional subject matter is addressed in relation to the following topics:

  • Sustainability and vulnerability: learning, development, competence, satisfaction, health at work, fragility, precariousness
  • Dynamics and trajectory: career change, "career breaks," entry into the profession; lifelong learning
  • Situations, spaces, and time: situational continuum, alternation, educational counseling, mentoring
  • Tools, techniques, and technologies: video training, simulation, artifacts
  • Singularity and generality: individual, collection, collective, community, territory
  • Profession: heritage (intangible and tangible) profession, formalization, conservation, transmission, transition, transformation

Lessons

Practices and Engineering of Adult Education, Training in and through Research, Training of Trainers, Initial Teacher Training

Responsibilities

  • Director of LIRDEF
  • Deputy Director of the Faculty of Education at the University of Montpellier—Diversification of courses, openness to and for society
  • Head of the "Training Practice and Engineering" program
  • Head of the Master's program in Transitions, Training Engineering, and Job Transformation (TransForM)
  • Co-facilitator of the TFP focus area
  • Laboratory board member