Educations

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Editorial

Le numéro de la revue Educations a pour objectif d’aborder la question de l’éducation au développement durable dans un contexte international qui interroge le devenir de notre planète et de l’humanité (Dupuy,2004 ; Morin,2020). L’école se propose à plusieurs égards, de se saisir de cette thématique en premier lieu dans les curricula, à travers les " éducations à ", et en particulier celle relative au développement durable.

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Guidelines for Climate Change Education from an International Literature Review

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is currently preparing its sixth assessment report, which will be published in 2022, but previous reports have highlighted the very significant impact of anthropogenic climate change on the entire planet in the 21st century. In this context, recent studies are conceptualizing climate change education. This article presents the first French synthesis of these works. It highlights the importance of teaching that integrates personal, action and knowledge dimensions, and it proposes possible guidelines for thinking about climate change education in a school context.

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Historical insights: influence of ESD on the life and earth science (LES) curriculum: perspectives for teacher education in ESD

In what ways has education for sustainable development (ESD), as a new curricular context, influenced a school discipline, life and earth science (LES)? Our study is based on a diachronic analysis of the second year LES curricula from the 1990s to the present day (thematic, lexicometric analysis and analysis of didactic transposition times). The whole shows a regression of ecological knowledge in favour of the integration of hybrid knowledge linked to sustainable development (SD), a growing anthropocentrism and the opening of the discipline to social legitimacy. From this, we have drawn up guidelines for teacher training, in particular the importance of questioning the content of teaching, the relationship to knowledge, and of making the hidden curriculum explicit.

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Thinking about complexity to build the position of a sustainable development problem. Analysis of pupils work

If education for sustainable development, introduced in French programs since 2004, seems necessary to consider the complexity of the environmental, social and economic challenges of the twenty-first century at school, the form which would consist in inculcating behaviors in younger generations is questionable. From an emancipatory perspective, work on complex, fuzzy problems linked to sustainable development seems an interesting voice for students to engage in critical reflection and build collective solutions. How, then, to work with this type of problem? Can we educate in complexity without taking charge of the problems for the students?

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Is it possible to reconcile students’ commitment to the climate with their access to emancipatory knowledge and under what conditions?

Climate change is a major societal concern. By taking it into consideration, the official instructions subject the school to a double challenge: to make the students understand scientifically the reasons for it and to engage them in the fight to stop it. Is it possible, and under what conditions, to reconcile these objectives? Our contribution studies these questions by focusing on the greenhouse effect, which is studied at different levels of education and regularly mobilized by the media. Based on a media support and on extracts from textbooks, we show on the one hand that what is proposed tends to get rid of scientific explanations in order to go as fast as possible to prescription and action; on the other hand, that the reasoned commitment of students for the climate necessarily passes by the development of critical ways of thinking and thus to their access to emancipating knowledge.

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Introduction

En proposant d’étudier à la fois la genèse et l’actualité, mais aussi la mise en œuvre et la réception des jeux numériques dans les mondes éducatifs, ce dossier thématique a pour objet d’enrichir la réflexion dans deux champs de recherche, celui des « éducations à » celui d’une culture numérique (ou informationnelle) qui s’impose.

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What is making into play? The design of a playful application based on a cartoon.

During a research on the conception of a cultural product intended for the children (a comic strip and the cartoon which was adapted from it), we studied an application derived from the same universe, promotional tool ordered by the co-producing television channel. We analyzed the place of the action proposed to the child through various devices considered as interactive, including the game, as well as the discourses produced by the designers. Despite the central place given to it, the game is only a limited element of a logic of participation of the child in the universe in order to capture him. The game appears as a parenthesis that must not call into question the logic of the cartoon that largely guides the development of the application. It appears as a different way of viewing a cartoon. Beyond this example, it is a question of showing the tension between the content of the game and what makes the game a game, the relationship that we maintain with the content. The fixation on the content leads to limiting the dimension of the game itself.

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Les Éonautes (2012-2020) The experience of a video game for learning French

Les Éonautes is a learning game developed for learning French as a foreign language (FLE) and released in 2012. It is probably the first video game to have been produced specifically for FLE, and is one of the very first video games for language learning. But it failed to meet the market, and the discontinuation by Adobe of the Flash technology, on which the animations are based, led to its interruption in April 2020. The purpose of this article is to provide feedback on this game, highlight its innovations, and analyze the reasons of the commercial failure.

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The video game, a convenient valve for human anxiety or a weapon for escaping from the cage?

Increasingly used in history class, the Assassin’s Creed series of video games makes the player embody a hero opposing the dictatorial aims of an occult group, at various times. To situate the game’s relationship to history, we interviewed 12 historians who were consulted to create these games, to explore their perceptions of the games’ content and their potential effects on players. The believable appearance of the game seems to them to carry the risk of bolstering its outlandish premise and supporting causal attribution based on the big characters. Some, however, also see it as an opportunity to develop critical thinking.

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What are players saying about learning history with Assassin’s Creed? Between authenticity and historical learning

This exploratory study provides an analysis of public forums about the Assassin’s Creed series and its representation of the past. The data indicate two trends marked by discussions firstly on the quest for the historical authenticity and secondly on learning with such a video game. We propose to sift these discussions through epistemological stances in order to identify a typology of player-types who could engage through a process of investigation and historical problematization in a differentiated way.