The Impact of school and of the social context on the education of secondary school teachers

Abstract

In France we passed of 5 % of holders of high school graduates by age group in the fifties, in 79 % today. These figures illustrate the strength of the transformation that underwent the French secondary sector in fifty years. In this context, the roles of the actors are less clearly defined and pre-given and the knowledges are less recognized to justify the authority and legitimacy of the teacher in charge of passing on them. It is some reasons which were originally, at the end of 1980s, of the reflection on teachers' job and on transformation of training. Having approached the transformations of the training of the teachers in France, we try to understand what are today expectations towards the future devices of training. Then we shall analyze the ways to make teachers professionals of the education in this nex social and institutional context.