Interdisciplinary research laboratory in didactics, education and training

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

Adult training practices and engineering, Training for and through research, Teacher training, Initial teacher training

Responsibilities

Head of the "Training Practice and Engineering" specialization