Didactic "curriculaire" and "education with... Health, environment and with the sustainable development" : which questions, which marks ?
“Both health and environmental education as well as sustainable development awareness” represent new areas in teaching that offer the opportunity to study the interactions which exist between knowledge, how teachers view their role and the direction taken by the new syllabus. Related social problems, knowledge type and implementation make it thus crucial to take into account the relationship between subject matter and actor in a teaching situation. Identifying the importance of the social dimension in the sciences equally entails changing the educational objectives in teaching. Syllabus didactics is an area which attempts to do just that : determine and provide new reference points to implement change.
The article sets the international context for the development of a curriculum of education for sustainable development and shows the directions being taken in the Francophone community. Building on a significant number of studies carried out in France, we constitute a typology of the positions of French-speaking researchers involved in those studies and contributing to the establishment of the national curriculum. This typology is constructed using a methodology based on the frequency of lexical occurrences in a bibliographic database, combined with a methodology of research on the social representations of the researchers of this community. We first present a broad comparison with the Anglo-Saxon sphere, we postulate that these positions influence the curriculum construction and raise the issue of the social responsibility of education science researchers in the face of international political demands.
L’éducation au développement durable (EDD) a fait l’objet ces dernières années d’un double processus de préconisation et d’encadrement : textes internationaux d’incitation, textes nationaux d’encadrement et de prescription. Ils fondent sa légitimité sociale, affirmée plus récemment encore par la « loi d’orientation et de refondation de l’école » de juillet 2013 dans son article 42 : il s’agit d’une éducation « morale et civique » portant notamment sur les enjeux. Il est convenu pour de nombreux auteurs que les questions sociétales, les objets de cette éducation, nécessitent une approche globale et complexe qui s’opposerait à une approche analytique et réductionniste, voire scientiste, ou, au contraire, qu’elles trahissent l’idéal de l’acquisition de connaissances au profit d’une dérive utilitariste. Ce sont ces tensions que cet article se propose d’examiner selon un registre épistémologique, éducatif, curriculaire et didactique, en vue de leur clarification et de leur dépassement, notamment au moyen d’une démarche d’investigation multiréférentielle d’enjeux adaptée à l’enseignement général et obligatoire.
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