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In this chapter we consider teachers’ ‘documentation work’: selecting resources, combining them, using them and revising, amongst others. We present a theoretical approach for the study of this work, conceptualising the articulation between documentation work and professional growth. This ‘documentational’ approach of didactics introduces a distinction between resources and documents: the teacher, drawing on resources, develops a document, in a process identified as ‘documentational genesis’. Studying ‘documentational geneses’ requires a specific methodology: the reflective investigation of teachers’ documentation work. We study data collected with this methodology, in particular in the case of a teacher introducing the notion of function. Teachers’ documentation work is central to their professional activity; accordingly teachers develop documentation systems, whose structure is strongly related to the structure of the professional activity. The documentation system conversely influences the professional activity, which evolves along ‘professional geneses’. Our study especially focuses on digital resources and on the repercussions of their use on teachers’ professional geneses.
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IREM, Institute for Research on Mathematics Teaching.
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In France every teacher can propose in-service training, on a given subject, usually for 1 or 2 days. The regional inspectors select some of the propositions to constitute the yearly ‘training offer’.
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http://www.index-education.com/fr/telecharger-profnote.php, ‘Pronote’ means ‘professional marks’.
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The authors warmly thank Jill Adler for her comments, and in particular for her revision of the English language in this chapter.
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1.1 Myriam, Additional Data
Activity type (and math. theme, if relevant) | Precise place | Time | Other persons involved | Resources used | Materials produced | Archiving (what? where?) | Comments |
Lesson about functions | Classroom | 10.00–10.55 (A.M.) | The class (grade 9) | Method sheet Online exercises (MatouMatheux) Videoprojector | Students sheet about reading images and antecedents | Ring binder grade 9 | |
Discussion with the bursar | Dining hall | 12.45 | The bursar | She informs me that my webcam has been delivered | |||
Report of the day’s lesson | Home | 5.00–5.15 (P.M.) | Personal notebook |
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Gueudet, G., Trouche, L. (2011). Teachers’ Work with Resources: Documentational Geneses and Professional Geneses. In: Gueudet, G., Pepin, B., Trouche, L. (eds) From Text to 'Lived' Resources. Mathematics Teacher Education, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1966-8_2
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