IntroductionT his article approaches the idea of interdisciplinarity as an aspect of the globalization of pedagogical practices through the teaching of kathak dance in France. Our study positions itself in a didactic research program that tackles the question of interdisciplinarity under the theoretical angle of joint action between teacher and students (Ranganathan 2004;Ranganathan and Petrefalvi 2007;Sensevy and Mercier 2007;Loquet, Roncin, and Roessle 2007;Loquet 2007). In this program, "didactics" is defined as the science whose object of study covers educational, teaching, and training practices. Our contribution to this program concerns the field of knowledge related to the body, in particular in sports and artistic activities (Loquet 2006).The ambition of research in didactics currently taking place in France is to show that the teacher's action cannot be treated in a unilateral way, independent of the student's action, just as the interactions between teacher and student cannot be set apart from the objects of knowledge that unite them. In this model, we grant a central place to the concept of "milieu," seen in a general way as the space where the teacher and the students interact.The Indian teacher and the French students operate in what we shall call a "milieu," defined as an interdisciplinary space where two disciplinary regimes collide and interact. The kathak teacher incarnates one discipline composed of academic codes from the Indian Malini Ranganathan holds a PhD in sciences and technology of physical and sport activities from the Universite de Rennes, France. Her 2004 dissertation focused on the didactic transposition of Indian dance in France. She has presented papers at several conferences on cross-cultural pedagogy. She teaches M.A. students at Nantes University and pursues her research work at the Research Center on Education, CREN. Malini is also an accomplished kathak dancer, with an academic qualification in this discipline and traditional training under well-known kathak dance gurus G. Damayanthi Joshi and G. Roshan Kumari.Monique Loquet is a member of the Research Center on Education, Teaching and Didactics (CREAD) and a professor of sciences and techniques of sports and physical activities at the European University of Brittany-Universite de Rennes, France. Her research deals with interactions between teachers, students, and knowledge acquisition, particular in dance and artistic activities.
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