Social representations of the professionalization of teachers

This book is illustrated as a didactic and educational book. It deals with social representations of the professionalization of teachers according to the training structure. The general objective is to analyze the social representations of the professionalization of teachers among teachers who have studied in ENS and faculties. The nature of this study is mixed. It is based on the central core theory (Abric 1976) of social representations. The results reveal that the elements training and competence belong to the central core of the sociocognitive structure of teachers of normalians while that of teachers leaving faculties contains elements such as training competence and vocation. As for the semantic organization it differs from one category of teacher to another. It should be noted that the structure of teacher training has an impact on the representational vision of the professionalization of the profession.