Humanities Didactics

The aim of the course is to examine the notion of didactics as a research and training discipline in its general dimensions, as well as in the specific context of teaching the chosen option. To this end, it examines teaching practices, the devices developed, student activity and how it is taken into account by the teacher in the disciplinary field of the chosen option. The course is therefore designed to reinforce skills in
the teaching activity itself, and to lead to positions of expertise or training.
The course is also open to post-graduate study (doctoral research) under certain conditions.

Public: This Master's program is aimed primarily at teachers (1st and 2nd grades), trainers, educational consultants, etc., who wish to develop their knowledge and skills in one of the fields covered by the didactics of the humanities:
1. didactics of the plastic and visual arts,
2. didactics of French and literature,
3. didactics of history and geography.

Training content is organized around three axes:
1. Theoretical insights:
a) on issues affecting schools and teaching as part of the core curriculum in M1,
b) on general didactic concepts, as well as those specific to each subject option.
2. Reflective analysis of teaching practices, systems and situations, to help students acquire the conceptual and methodological tools they need to reflect on their own teaching and training practices.
3. A research approach based on the conceptual and methodological frameworks
developed by the LIRDEF (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Didactique Éducation et Formation) and in particular the Savoirs, Pratiques, Didactique (SPD) axis for this course:
a) in M1, as part of the core curriculum, with an introduction to research, the exploitation
of scientific articles and the preparation of a research project,
b) in M2, as part of the specific DIDHUM course, with the preparation of a dissertation, involving problematization of an aspect of the profession, the construction of a theoretical framework and the construction and analysis of field data.