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The educational project in French schools: professional challenges to transform the school

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In this article, an ethnographic study of French primary education in the Ile-de-France region in Portugal was carried out using a Grounded Theory perspective, focusing on organizational learning.
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espanolEste articulo busca aportar elementos de comprension sobre la manera en que los profesores de la educacion primaria francesa asumen la realizacion de sus proyectos educativos y, mas globalmente, comprender como estos proyectos influyen en la escuela. El analisis, focalizado en el aprendizaje organizativo, ambiciona describir las facultades de las escuelas para vincular sus acciones a un proceso de produccion del conocimiento mediante el proyecto educativo de la escuela. La investigacion es de tipo etnografica y esta situada en la region Ile-de-France. Para efectos del analisis, nos hemos apoyado en las preconizaciones de la teoria fundamentada en los hechos. Nuestros resultados subrayan los multiples retos que plantea el proyecto de escuela en la busqueda de una actividad original que responda a sus problematicas ordinarias. Demostramos que el desarrollo profesional de los docentes es una cuestion que se situa en el centro del proyecto educativo, por cuanto este interroga las estructuras de conocimiento individual y colectivo preexistentes de la profesion. Nuestro postulado es que las experiencias profesionales que se producen durante el proyecto educativo podrian nutrir el capital de conocimientos que emergen desde la practica docente dentro y fuera del aula. Es decir, si el proyecto se considerara como un proceso que pretende la inteligibilidad de la realidad escolar y no solo como un conjunto de acciones, seria posible, para los docentes, comprender y aprender de las problematicas que los mismos proyectos plantean. portuguesThis article aims to provide an insight into the way teachers in French primary education implement educational projects and, overall, to understand how these projects influence the school. The analysis, focused on organizational learning, aims to describe the schools’ ability to combine action and knowledge production processes. The method relies on an ethnographic research developed in the Ile-de-France region. The data was analyzed using a Grounded Theory perspective. Our results underline the many challenges that the school project poses in the quest to develop original activities which meet ordinary problems. We discovered that the professional development of teachers is an issue at the heart of the educational project since it questions the profession’s pre-existing individual and collective knowledge structures. Our postulate states that professional experiences taking place during the educational project could nourish the knowledge capital emerging from teaching practice both in and outside the classroom. In other words, if the project were to be considered as a process aiming to make school reality intelligible, and not only as a set of actions, it would be possible for teachers to understand and learn from the problems the projects themselves pose.

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