The joint construction of an observatory and a theoretical object: an example with the story of experience and the field of actions

• Published in: Activites
• Main Authors: Terré, Nicolas, Sève, Carole, Huet, Benoît
• Other Authors: Motricité, interactions, performance EA 4334 / Movement - Interactions - Performance (MIP), Le Mans Université (UM)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes = Nantes University Hospital (CHU Nantes)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives (UFR STAPS), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN), Activité Physique, Corps, Sport et Santé (APCOSS), Université Catholique de l'Ouest (UCO)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: course of action; kayak; story of experience; field of actions; appropriation; Cours d’action; récits d’expérience; espace d’actions; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; Arctic; Arctique*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03597141; https://hal.science/hal-03597141/document; https://hal.science/hal-03597141/file/activites-5556.pdf; https://doi.org/10.4000/activites.5556

International audience The aim of this article, based on a study conducted with a class of 26 students engaged in an annual “Arctic Kayak” project, is twofold. The first is to present the dynamics of joint construction, going back and forth between observation analysis and theoretical concept research. The second is to introduce two new concepts that might benefit the course-of-action research program. The first concept, “story of experience”, helps design and conduct observation research aiming to collect and analyze the experience of large groups of actors over a relatively long period of time. Stories of experience offer a condensed description of students’ individual experiences during the kayak classes, providing material that allows multiple angles of analysis. The second concept is that of “action field”, which is a subset of the “course-of-experience” theoretical object. For an actor and a given unit of time, this corresponds to all elements of its environment to which it attributes characteristics. Analysis of the students’ action fields allowed us to identify evolutions and transformations which are typical of the students’ perceptual judgments during classes. These results clarify the hypothesis of the three processes (in-situation, in-corporation, in-culturation) of appropriation proposed by Theureau (2011). L’enjeu de cet article, qui s’appuie sur une étude conduite avec une classe de 26 élèves engagés dans un projet annuel « Kayak arctique », est double. Le premier est de présenter la dynamique de construction conjointe, par des allers et retours, entre un observatoire et un objet théorique. Le deuxième enjeu est de présenter des nouvelles notions susceptibles d’enrichir le programme de recherche du cours d’action. La première est la notion de « récit d’expérience » qui permet de concevoir un observatoire visant à appréhender l’expérience d’un collectif d’acteurs important sur une temporalité relativement longue. Ces récits offrent une description condensée de l’expérience de l’ensemble des ...