Sébastien Chaliès
University Professor
Research topics
My scientific work aims to contribute to a "research program" concerned with the construction of the subject at work and/or in training. More broadly, it is part of what might be an anthropology of working life, a working life caught up in changing professions in the light of major societal challenges (ecological, social and solidarity-based).
From a theoretical point of view, my work is part of a so-called "culturalist" anthropology, borrowing heavily from the philosophical and anthropological work of L. Wittgenstein and his many readers (notably J. Bouveresse, C. Chauviré, P. De Lara, S. Laugier, P. Steiner, S. Cavell and C. Taylor). Taylor). The professional subject is apprehended on the basis of key concepts such as "form of life", "(in)expressivity", "normative and anthropological capacities", "background (rules, language game, values)", "experience", "activity", "techniques" and/or "intention". The conditions of its construction, particularly in terms of work and/or training circumstances, are explored using concepts such as "ostensive/ostensible teaching", "accompaniment", "regimes of reflexivity", "degrees of awareness" and "normativity".
From a methodological point of view, a transformative approach is favored, based on a consubstantial relationship between scientific and technological aims. The tools used to collect and process data are often composite and mixed.
The construction of the professional subject is worked on in connection with the following subjects:
- Sustainability and vulnerability: learning, development, competence, satisfaction, occupational health, fragility, precariousness
- Dynamics and career paths: professional retraining, "career breaks", entry into the profession; lifelong learning
- Situations, spaces and times: situational continuum, alternation, pedagogical advice, companionship
- Tools, techniques and technologies: video training, simulation, artifacts
- Singularity and genericity: individual, collection, collective, community, territory
- Trade: heritage (intangible and tangible) trade, formalization, conservation, transmission, transition, transformation
Teaching
Pratiques et Ingénierie de la Formation d'adultes, Formation à et par la recherche, Formation de formateurs, Formation initiale des enseignants
Responsibilities
- Head of the "Training Practice and Engineering" specialization
- Co-leader of the TFP axis
- Member of the Laboratory Council