Article
French
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Abstract
Why make teaching practices a topic of study of the history of education? And how might one go about it ? More often than not, between the silence of those teachers who take shelter under their intouchable pedagogical freedom and those who hide behind their schoolday memories, school life remains as indefinable as ever. None the less, researchers have several tools at their disposal : printed sources, teacher assessment reports and teaching materials for the classroom. The aim is to single out dominant patterns which, for a given period and a specific context, set the rules for what used to be the teaching norm(s) of the time. With this in mind, the history of teaching practices is an integral part of the social as well as the cultural history of the teaching education. As such, the daily act of teaching is shaped by the representation that teachers have of their own job and thereby shapes scholastic culture. This history thus shades light on how modernity is or is not imparted.