Kloetzer, Laure

2024, Noémie Mathivat, Jeanne Rey, Kloetzer, Laure

La Suisse peut être décrite comme un laboratoire pour l’étude des migrations du fait de sa pluralité culturelle et linguistique nationale et immigrée, mais aussi de la multiplicité des réglementations propres à chaque canton. Dans le canton de Vaud, les élèves primo-arrivants allophones (EPAA) peuvent être scolarisés dans des classes d’accueil séparées. Chaque fin d’année, l’enjeu pour les enseignantes est d’évaluer chaque élève en train d’acquérir la langue d’enseignement locale, pour l’orienter dans un système à filières visant l’homogénéité des groupes. Ces moments charnières représentent un point aveugle dans la construction des trajectoires scolaires. Cette recherche étudie comment les EPAA sont orientés dans un système scolaire secondaire sélectif et d’après quels éléments. L’analyse des données montre que la prolongation de la scolarité en classe d’accueil est favorisée par les enseignantes pour protéger les élèves d’une scolarisation en classe ordinaire perçue comme à rebours de l’école inclusive.

2023, Kloetzer, Laure, Wanda Maria Junqueira de Aguiar, Sueli Salles Fidalgo

Escrito em três línguas – embora suas partes não sejam traduzidas em todas as línguas que o constituem – esse texto tripartido tem dois objetivos: primeiramente, busca fornecer uma ideia geral do curso - três cursos em um - que foi oferecido durante a primavera europeia e o outono brasileiro de 2021 por três professoras em parceria para os seus alunos de mestrado e doutorado, ou seja, para estudantes, em sua maioria, das três universidades onde elas lecionam, promovendo uma discussão densa e uma visão ampla acerca do tema do curso, qual seja, Metodologias Críticas de cunho colaborativo, especialmente as que se embasam nos estudos histórico-culturais, conforme discutidos por L. S. Vigotski (1924-1934). O curso foi organizado a partir da ideia inicial e central de uma oportunidade para aprofundar a compreensão dos aspectos que aproximam e diferenciam os trabalhos das três pesquisadoras - Clínica de Atividades, Pesquisa-Trans-Formação, Pesquisa Crítica de Colaboração - e de seus grupos de pesquisa, especialmente no tocante às metodologias empregadas e ao seu trabalho com profissionais da educação. Os resultados das discussões demonstram que as três metodologias se apoiam, em maior ou menor escala, em conceitos tais como contradição, trabalho colaborativo, instrumento-e-resultado, dialética, totalidade-unidade, sentido e significado (ou significação), entre outros. Alguns autores foram também convidados para contribuir com sua visão sobre aspectos específicos da teoria histórico-cultural e/ou possibilidades metodológicas que podem ser desenvolvidas a partir desses estudos. Já outros autores que contribuíram com esse número temático da Revista Psicologia da Educação foram participantes do curso em si – como professores convidados ou como estudantes – e apresentam suas visões sobre o que foi discutido nas semanas de trabalho, i.e., as metodologias de pesquisa e suas bases ou as ideias principais que surgiram nas discussões e contribuíram com a elaboração dos componentes metodológicos de suas teses ou dissertações.

2022, Cattaruzza, Elisa, Kloetzer, Laure, Iannaccone, Antonio

This paper focuses on the learning processes of students involved in a pedagogical design bridging in-class and out-of-class activities. As academic teachers–researchers, we designed a semester-long course in which academic and out-of-university activities interact and overlap. The data were collected at the end of the course from student reports (diaries) and audio-recorded semi-structured interviews inspired by the elicitation interview technique. This technique involves a fine-grained description of the lived experience. We present selected excerpts in which students described their boundary-crossing movements between academic and out-of-university activities. Data were evaluated using a purpose-built analysis approach comprising two macro-categories and three sub-categories of students’ boundary-crossing movements. The results showed that specific learning processes emerged and developed through these movements. Implications for teaching and learning are highlighted.

2021, Kloetzer, Laure, Ramiro Tau, Joelle Valterio, Simon Henein

aper analyses how a course on improvisation and collective creation in engineering addressed to master’s students in Switzerland moved online. The course offers an experience in the field of performing arts, through embodied and situated activities, and the opportunity to reflect on the process of collective creation, a fundamental aspect of engineering practice often neglected in engineering training. The restrictions imposed by the 2020 pandemic forced its migration to an online format. We explore whether it is possible to maintain online a pedagogical proposal centered on embodied and face-to-face interaction, and what such a course might bring to the students. Using data collected during Spring 2020 (especially a focus group, video-recorded feedbacks and reflective diaries written by the students), we analyze the continuities and discontinuities between the two modalities. We show how the socio-material transformations im plied by the online interactions altered the interactions taking place, discuss the resultant opportunities and novelties offered by the online modality. We highlight that the apparent success of this migration to an online format overshadows the strong collective efforts needed from both students and teachers to maintain the key features of the course (playful experimentation, being inspired by others, horizontality of relations, trust, collective practice, improvisation).

2024, Cesari Lusso, Vittoria, Kloetzer, Laure

2023, Vergara Wilson, Martín, Kloetzer, Laure

Concepts are at the core of human psychological experience. By means of them, we can communicate, understand and collaborate with each other. Within each community, concepts have been learned and can be taught. They are of capital importance for education in every level and for work activities. Concepts have been the object of study of different disciplines and in different contexts for many years. Despite their importance and the attention they have received, both common sense and psychological science understand concepts in an oversimplified way that has consequences for research and teaching. Early in the past century, Vygotsky studied the phenomena of concepts and their development in what ended up addressing most of the loose ends that remain in current dominant psychological and educational perspectives. In this article, we review the main, hegemonic perspectives on concepts in psychology, particularly one of the mayor research fields in educational psychology (Research on Conceptual Change), to present later some cross-cutting criticisms to those approaches that will become our touchstone for a sound theory of concepts. Then we present the Vygotskian approach to concept development, and the methodological implications derived from the dialectical framework in which it is inscribed. Finally, extending the Vygotskian approach beyond child development, we present a method developed in French work psychology, the Activity Clinics approach, and its potential for studying the development of concepts in work activities.

2021-3-19, Kloetzer, Laure, Clarke-Habibi, Sara, Mehmeti, Teuta, Zittoun, Tania

Switzerland, like other countries in Europe, has long depended on migration and mobility for its economy. Facilitating the integration of migrant children in school, primarily through the acquisition of the local language, has therefore been a priority for policymakers. In recent years, mobility has been on the increase and mobility trajectories have become more diverse. A growing percentage of families arriving in the country have experienced repeated mobility and may not plan to settle in Switzerland for good. This paper examines institutional responses to the increasing number of mobile children in Swiss public schools, in particular, the manner in which such children are welcomed. It presents the main findings of an exploratory research project focused on children in repeated mobility, defined as having lived in multiple countries before their arrival in Switzerland, regardless of family background or legal status. Adopting a sociocultural psychological approach, the paper examines the macro-social level of cantonal educational policies regarding welcome processes, the meso-social level of local school policies, and the microsocial level of teachers’ practices and interactions in classrooms that welcome mobile children. Data include documentary analysis, interviews, and observations. Our analysis shows that a deficit view of mobile children and the preoccupation with language proficiency dominate policies and practices, resulting in the diversion of mobile children into special integration classes (so called “classes d’accueil” in the French speaking region, and “Integrationsklasse” in the Swiss German-speaking region). Mobility is conceptualized by Swiss policymakers, school directors, and teachers in terms of its challenges. In particular, school directors and teachers conceptualize mobility as increasing heterogeneity of the classroom. However, the situation varies greatly according to the personal orientations of school directors and teachers’ personal engagement. The paper emphasizes the ambiguous role of the integration classes: while they may impair the long-term chances of educational success by reducing academic expectations for non-native-speaking mobile children, they may also be used as “third spaces” which afford pedagogical freedom for dedicated teachers, potentially of benefit for children. The paper examines these propositions in the light of sociocultural educational literature and draws upon the case of welcoming mobile children to question a series of assumptions about the ultimate purposes of public schooling in Europe today.

2023, Kloetzer, Laure, Wobmann, Léa, Picard, Marion, Mulhauser, Blaise

Hosting school classes at the Botanical Garden is an important part of an institution’s educational mission and a common task for educators. How can they best be designed and delivered? Based on an analysis of video recordings of four workshops for 6-8 year old children, our research highlights three ideas for successful workshops...

2023, Élodie Oursel, Kloetzer, Laure

Cet article propose une réflexion sur la gestion du temps à l’école, en fonction du lieu de pratiques : dedans ou dehors. Il se fonde sur des pratiques diverses et prend en considération les temps d’organisation, de préparation, les temps pédagogiques et éducatifs sous toutes leurs formes. Il pousse la réflexion jusqu’aux représentations sociétales du temps en comparaison avec le temps de la nature, et ouvre sur la question sociétale de la culture du temps que nous construisons chez nos enfants.

2021, Daniel Lambelet, Ros, Jenny, Kloetzer, Laure

Dans le domaine de la justice pénale, l’enquête est au cœur des pratiques professionnelles. Nos données résultent d’une recherche menée au sein de trois services de probation de Suisse latine, et portant sur la dynamique de sécurisation de l’action. En nous basant sur le paradigme indiciaire de Ginzburg et la théorie pragmatiste de l’enquête de Dewey, nous identifions quatre situations d’enquête dans l’activité professionnelle des agents de probation. Nous montrons que, malgré l’orientation toujours plus présente d’une rationalité actuarielle et gestionnaire, la pratique des agents de probation reste largement orientée par une clinique de la vigilance adossée à la démarche de l’enquête. Nous argumentons en faveur de l’articulation de ces deux démarches dans une culture de sécurité.