EMA - School, Transformations, Learning

• Training and professional training
• Actors, policies and practices
• Knowledge and resources
• Forms and spaces

The ÉMA laboratory studies the dynamics of the world of education, its training policies (“Training and professional training” field) and the role of actors that influence the practices and uses related to learning (“Actors, policies and practices” field). It focusses on the resources used to build knowledge in order to explain and understand what is learned, through the specificity of the taught subjects (“Knowledge and resources” field).It also explores the diversity of the spaces and forms of learning, issues which the researchers analyse inside and outside of school (“Forms and spaces” field).

These fields bring objects together in a dynamic interrelation: they offer opportunities for reflection on their associated references and are designed to initiate or promote cross-disciplinary work, to fertilise the work and to place analysis, at a given moment, in a common space, without leading the members of the laboratory in mutually exclusive directions. This cross-disciplinary approach is particularly supported by the significant experience that EMA has in collaborative research in the educational, health and social fields.