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Revue française de pédagogie, n°223/2024

La contextualisation en histoire

Edited by Sylvain Doussot, Nadine Fink

Revue française de pédagogie - Recherches en éducation



Contextualisation in history

This dossier aims to develop didactic knowledge on a professional problem for history teachers and contribute to developing disciplinary didactics research. It focuses on the concept of contextualisation as an essential process in the disciplinary approach to history, both for historians and teachers. This concept is of didactic interest for two reasons: while contextualisation is at the heart of teaching and scholarly discourse and practice in history, it is so in different, even opposing, ways. Then, contextualisation is also an analytical tool emblematic of the specificity of history didactics because it explains the links between school discipline and scientific discipline, and between the production and learning of historical knowledge. The first three articles in the dossier deal with the notions of context and contextualisation from the perspective of the philosophy of language and historians (in their research practices and texts). The other three articles present and analyse classroom experiments within various theoretical frameworks and practical choices. They highlight the conditions for designing and implementing teaching methods to develop students' critical disciplinary skills.