The pedagogic discourse of the teacher-author

Abstract

Scientific knowledge is not a series of accumulations, but breaks and corrections in a long dialectical process. However, exercises and expressions which are “ends in themselves” presented to students in science classes hinder the establishment of relations with everyday facts and scientific concepts. The use of the language of mathematical signs and short written texts with objectivity pretensions is predominant, to the detriment of the various languages and materialities by which the school scientific knowledge is constituted. From the theoretical framework of the French Discourse Analysis, we discussed the idea of authorship in teaching practice, culminating in what we have called the teacher-author. The taking of the teacher-author position implies the mobilization of pre-built knowledge and the rupture with practices already institutionalized and crystallized in the educational field. By producing a polemical pedagogic discourse, the teacher-author historicizes his/her “say-do” and resignifies his/her teaching practice. It is by moving and reorganizing the meanings to scientific knowledge that the teacher recognizes his/her authorial function and his/her leading role in the essential process of didactic mediation.