The aim of this contribution is to make progress in the characterisation and structuring of the field of research on Social Vives Questions (QSV) — or Socially Acute Questions (SAQ) — by revisiting proposals made during the period of emergence of this topic. It is therefore a question of proposing a new presentation of the work of researchers in the field, in terms of the process of teaching QSV, as well as from a transformative perspective. This analysis is carried out in relation to our analysis grid for the reports on knowledge in education and training (Legardez, 2004), which has now been revisited with a view to teaching ‘hyper-vive’ questions — relating in particular to eco-citizenship — with a transformative and critical aim (Legardez -Jeziorki, 2017). The aim of our work is also to inform the thinking and practices of education and training actors, with a view to emancipation and transformation.