Abstract:
Professional didactics aims at analyzing work duties for the purpose of gaining competences. In the origins of this approach, there are two trends: work psychology (Faverge, Leplat), which underlines the cognitive dimension existing in every work; developmental psychology (Piaget, Vygotski, Vergnaud), which emphasizes the role of conceptualization in action. This paper offers a few examples of work analysis on professional didactics, tracing the pragmatic concepts that are the real action organizers, in the sense that they enable actors to identify the situation in which they find themselves. This analysis can only be carried from the perspective of the actors' activity; thus, it is possible to reflect on the situation's conceptual structure, or more precisely their representation of it.
Keywords:
work analysis; professional didactics; conceptualization; cognitive development.