Projets transitionnels et rites de passage de l enseignement secondaire aux etudes superieures. Recits d apprentissage en premiere annee d iut

Transitional projects and rites of passage from secundary to higher education. Apprenticeship narrative during the first year of i. U. T

• Auteur / Autrice : Richard Soudée
• Direction : Michel Lobrot
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : SC. DE L'EDUCATION
• Date : Soutenance en 1990
• Etablissement(s) : Paris 8

Résumé

Cette recherche traite de la fonction de la representation par des etudiants de l histoire de leur devenir par l iut. La representation etudiee est concue comme une demarche individuelle elaboree dans le bref espace-temps du passage de l enseignement secondaire aux etudes superieures et dependant de facteurs psychologiques et sociaux propres a ce passage. L analyse des recits d apprentissage du role d etudiant montre que l histoire de la transition est en partie la realisation d un ''conte de fees'' imagine et en partie la decouverte d un ensemble d epreuves ritualisees. Des concepts explicatifs nouveaux sont proposes : le ''projet transitionnel'' et le ''recit transitionnel''. Plusieurs articulations sont mises en evidence : entre representation individuelle et representation collective du passage, entre fiction revee et projet realiste entre conscientisationet ritualisation du passage, entre recit individuel et rite collectif.

The figuring out process by students of the history of their evolution through the i. U. T. Is the object of this undertaking. This figuring out is considered an individual approach worked up during the brief passage between secundary and higher education - depending on psycho- logical and social factors connected to this period. The analysis of the narrative of this apprenticeship to the role of student shows the story of the transition as being on one hand the performance of a ''fairy tale'' pictured for oneself and on the other hand the discovery of a series of ritualistic ordeals. Some new concepts proposed are : the ''transitional project'' and ''the transitional narrative''. Many connections are brought to light : between indivdual and the collective ways of figuring out the passage, between dreamt fiction and realistic project, between the consciousness and the ritualisation of the passage, and between individual and collective narrative.