[pt] Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo buscar entendimentos sobre a interação dentro do contexto profissional no qual estou inserida: a equipe de supervisoras acadêmicas de uma instituição de ensino de inglês como língua estrangeira. À luz dos princípios da Prática Exploratória (Allwright, 2001), monitorei atividades nas quais nos engajamos nos bastidores de nossa prática diária, assumindo o papel de pesquisadora praticante inserida no contexto de pesquisa. Os dados foram gerados a partir de CIPEs - Conversas Informais com Potencial Exploratório (Azevedo, 2005), notas de campo e gravações em áudio de reuniões planejadas, conversas informais e da interação diária entre as supervisoras dentro dos cubículos do Departamento Acadêmico. A análise dos dados, com base em conceitos advindos da Sociolingüística Interacional, permitiu-me identificar no curso desses diferentes momentos de interação do grupo como se dão: construção de conhecimento e credibilidade profissional, tomadas de decisões e resoluções de problemas, e a construção da identidade do grupo. Ao promover o envolvimento do grupo nessa busca por entendimentos, este estudo acrescentou uma nova dimensão ao nosso fazer supervisão no dia-a-dia: um olhar exploratório sobre nossas experiências de participação e não-participação em diferentes comunidades de prática (Wenger,1998) dentro da instituição. / [en] This study aims at searching for understandings of the interaction in the professional context I belong to: the team of academic supervisors in an EFL school. Following the principles of Exploratory Practice (Allwright, 2001), I monitored activities in which we engaged in the backstage of our daily practice, adopting the role of a practitioner researcher. Data was generated through potentially exploitable informal conversations (Azevedo, 2005), field notes, and audio recordings of scheduled meetings, informal meetings and the daily interaction inside the supervisors´ room. Data analysis, based on concepts of Interactional Sociolinguistics, allowed me to identify, in the supervisors´ discourse, how we construct professional knowledge and credibility, make decisions and resolve problems and construct our group identity. By involving the group in this search for understanding, this study has added a new dimension to our daily practice in supervision: an exploratory look at our experiences of participation and non-participation in different communities of practice (Wenger,1998) inside the school.

Cette recherche porte sur l’écriture d’une profession, celle des éducateurs spécialisés, réputée être en délicatesse avec l’écrit. Dans cette profession le langage, sous forme orale ou écrite, EST le travail. Depuis le début des années 2000 le secteur médico-social qui lui sert de cadre est confronté, via la mise en place de la Nouvelle Gestion Publique, à la montée du scripturaire. Cette recherche interroge la prétendue « tradition orale » dont se revendiquent les professionnels du secteur médico-social et l’examine comme un problème écran. A partir des contraintes (naturelles, non naturelles, narratives et langagières) qui pèsent sur l’écriture professionnelle des éducateurs, la recherche s’organise en deux parties. La première dresse un cadre conceptuel destiné à interroger le terrain en se fondant sur un parcours à travers l’histoire, les mots, les savoirs et le langage du travail éducatif en se référant aux travaux de Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem,Paul Ricoeur. La deuxième partie donne la parole aux scripteurs et aux documents à partir d’un terrain constitué par une population de 389éducatrices et éducateurs spécialisés intervenant au sein d’une association gestionnaire de 60 établissements et services accompagnant des personnes en situation de handicap. In fine cette recherche entend ouvrir des perspectives permettant d’explorer les relations avec les personnes accompagnées, les rapports de l’écrit à la professionnalité, le renouvellement des formes de l’écrit à partir de la narratologie, l’articulation entre la praxis et une « clinique » de l’accompagnement et enfin de fonder une réflexion sur la place à donner aux littéracies dans la formation initiale et continue et dans l’analyse des pratiques des professionnels concernés. / The topic of this research is education specialists’ professional writing. It is generally assumed that education specialists feel rather uncomfortable with professional writings although language whether, oral or written, IS the work. Moreover, since the early 2000’s, along with the changes implied by the New Public Management reforms, a huge emphasis is put on written activities in this profession. This research examines the real issues hidden behind the claim of an oral tradition explanation from educators specialist. Starting with the constraints (natural, non-natural, narratives, linguistics) that are bearing upon these educators’ professional writing, this work is organized in two parts. The first part is setting up a conceptual frame based on history, words, knowledge and language of educational workers through authors like Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem, Paul Ricoeur. The second part focuses on what educators, employed in a non profit organization, actually say about their practices through a quantitative enquiry and on analysis of documents. This non profit organization (OVE) dedicated to persons with special needs, manages 60 institutions and services and employs 389 teachers. To the end this research opens new ways of considering relations between professionals and persons with special needs, connections between profession and writing and, through narrative method, renewed forms of professional writing. Through thinking a new articulation between praxis and the clinical of care, a reflection on the place of literacies and pratices’ analysis is therefore needed in the educational training of this professionals.