A Framework to Study Professional Learning: French Professional Didactics

• In Event: Poster Session 9
  In Poster Session: Workplace Learning: Poster Session

Abstract

In this paper, we will present the theoretical and methodological framework of “Professional Didactics”. This field of research has been developed since the 1990’s in France (Pastré, Mayen, Vergnaud, 2006). More and more French speaking researchers and training practitioners from France, Switzerland, Belgium and Quebec use Professional Didactics to study professional learning in order to improve vocational training. This approach is mostly published in French but there have been some recent English publications refering to this field (Rogalski, 2004, Filliettaz, 2012). For this conference, our aim is to highlight the core theories of this approach, to show some of its results and to discuss its complementarity with other approaches in the field of Workplace Learning (Billett 2001, 2011).

Authors

• Claire Tourmen, Higher National Institute Of Agricultural Sciences, Food and the Environement (AgroSup Dijon)

• Otilia Holgado, University of Sherbrooke