PRATIQUES DÉCLARÉES D’ENSEIGNANTS D’HISTOIRE AU SECONDAIRE EN LIEN AVEC LEURS USAGES DES RESSOURCES DIDACTIQUES ET L’EXERCICE DE LA MÉTHODE HISTORIQUE
Keywords:
textbook, exercise book, teaching material, historical method, teaching practices, history teaching, high school, educational interventionAbstract
L’article propose une analyse descriptive de pratiques déclarées d’enseignants d’histoire au secondaire en lien avec leurs usages des ressources didactiques et l’exercice de la méthode historique. Nous proposons une analyse complémentaire d’un sondage sur les fonctions déclarées par 81 enseignants du Québec. Le sondage permet d’identifier différents types d’usages selon les réponses données : intensif, extensif, critique. Le type extensif est majoritaire et s’appuie sur un usage diversifié et partiel de ressources didactiques. Cependant, la place de la méthode historique, de l’interprétation et de la critique est plutôt faible, puisque l’usage extensif des ressources sert davantage à illustrer et exposer les faits par le contrôle exercé par l’enseignant sur la structuration du savoir historique. Les fonctions attribuées par ces enseignants ne semblent pas varier selon leurs années d’expérience.
DECLARED PRACTICES OF HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHERS’ USE OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND THE FOSTERING OF THE HISTORICAL METHOD
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the declared practices of history teachers in high school related to their use of educational resources and the fostering of the historical method. Further analysis of a survey about the function of educational resources as declared by 81 Quebec teachers is proposed. This survey allows for the identification of different types of usage according to the responses given: intensive, extensive, and critical. The extensive type is predominant and relies on a diverse and partial use of educational resources. However, the use of the historical method, of interpretation, and of criticism as educational functions is rather weak. The extensive use of resources is more for the purpose of illustrating and explaining historical facts via the teacher’s own structuring of historical knowledge. These functions do not seem to vary according to teachers’ years of experience.
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