Quand les instruments de métier deviennent objets de discours
A growing number of work analysis methodologies demand a developmental approach, i.e. they aim to change workers and/or work situations. Some assume that this change can best be achieved by closely involving people in the analysis of their own work activity (e.g. Clot, 2008; Engeström, 1987, 2000; B...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association Recherche et Pratique sur les Activités
2010-10-01
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| Series: | Activités |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/activites/2406 |
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| Summary: | A growing number of work analysis methodologies demand a developmental approach, i.e. they aim to change workers and/or work situations. Some assume that this change can best be achieved by closely involving people in the analysis of their own work activity (e.g. Clot, 2008; Engeström, 1987, 2000; Béguin & Cerf, 2004; Pastré, 2005). However, research experience shows that examples of such change remain uncommon, even in frameworks carefully designed to support the subjects’ development of their activity, not to mention the development of practical activity, which is generally very difficult to demonstrate within the space and time restrictions of a research project. In this paper, we analyse a few such examples drawn from two projects carried out in Clinic of Activity using the technique of cross self-confrontation (Clot, 1999, 2005, 2008; Clot et al., 2001). The first was conducted in conjunction with experts in Accreditation for Work Experience (or VAE, as it is known in French), the second with Roman Catholic priests. We compare the two to acquire a better understanding of the conditions required for development of the analysis. We will focus on one of the mechanisms that recurs often in our material: the construction of a “space for reflection” (Perret-Clermont, 2001) where new ways of thinking are created. |
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| ISSN: | 1765-2723 |