Aims

Objectives

The purpose of this lecture is to bring the future teachers to get used with concepts and intervention tools in order to analyse and to build a relevant relationship between teacher and student in the specific cultural context of today which is the legal obligation to provide an education for adolescents.

Main themes

Main themes
o School : an institution, a place to live, analysis of a complex situation.
o The adolescence : cultural phenomenon and psychic process.
o The adolescent faced with school : expectations, attitudes and representation.
o The stakes in the relationship teacher-student: how to place oneself in the relation teacher-student? How to reconcile both roles of educating and teaching?
o The connection of the adolescent with school authority: how to set up a true authority?
o Demotivation and violence in secondary schools : fantasy or reality?

Content and teaching methods

Methods
o A particular care will be given to the coherence between the teaching methods used in the lecture and the concepts and tools which are developed.
o Active procedures : learning by resolving problems, analysis of material, tools and practical cases (some may be presented by witnesses or videograms), discussion or debates
o Several documents and texts relating to the main themes of the lecture.

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