A l'interface du travail, de la formation des adultes, de l'orientation et de l'accompagnement des parcours socio-professionnels, les pratiques d'accompagnement en Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience reposent sur une activité, dont les contours se sont progressivement formalisés, depuis la mise en place du dispositif en 2002, grâce aux acteurs de ce champ.Alors même que des réflexions sont aujourd'hui engagées à l'université pour créer des parcours certifiants de nature à permettre l'accès au métier, nous pensons qu’une recherche approfondie sur l'activité en situation d'accompagnement VAE peut contribuer à la conception de dispositifs de formation en direction des conseillers chargés de l'accompagnement des candidats. A partir d'une observation ethnographique conduite dans un organisme de formation du Travail Social, un corpus audio d'entretiens d'accompagnement VAE a été constitué. La recherche s’est centrée d’une part, sur les discours d’expérience du candidat et du conseiller, pris isolément du contexte interactionnel dans lequel ils apparaissent. A partir d’une analyse textuelle, discursive et énonciative, nous nous sommes intéressée aux caractéristiques de ces discours pour comprendre l’activité qu’ils supposent du point de vue des acteurs, les expériences qu’ils convoquent et les espaces d’activité fictionnels qu’ils font émerger (l’espace du travail éducatif, l’espace de l’écriture du dossier VAE, l’espace du jury VAE). D’autre part, la recherche s’est centrée sur les interactions entre conseillers et candidats au cours des entretiens d'accompagnement, pour comprendre en quoi l’activité dialogale qu’elles sous-tendent, contribue au développement par le candidat d'un discours d’expérience sur son travail. Une analyse des trajectoires d’engagement des acteurs dans l’activité met en évidence que différentes configurations dialogiques (éducateur / éducateur ; accompagnateur / accompagné ; évaluateur / évalué) prennent place au cours du dialogue entre le conseiller et le candidat, qui se constituent comme une source d’étayage au développement de la pensée et du discours du candidat sur son travail. Ces configurations dialogiques sont rendues visibles par des voix mises en scène qui convoquent des expériences passées, anticipées ou imaginées, associées à des espaces d'activité distincts de la situation d'accompagnement. Parce qu'elles permettent au candidat de s'engager dans des dialogues fictifs reconfigurant les places endossées par chacun, ces configurations dialogiques permettent d’appréhender les mouvements interprétatifs en pensée et en discours du candidat sur son activité et rendent possible une transformation du point de vue porté sur l'activité professionnelle. / At the interface of the work, vocational training, and guidance for professional career paths, the guidance practices for Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) are based on an activity whose properties have been gradually formalized and developed, since the introduction of the legislative framework in 2002, thanks to the actors of the field themselves. While discussions are now committed at the university to create pathways to certification, such as to permit access to the profession, we believe that a thorough research on the work activity of guidance practices in Accreditation of Prior Learning may contribute to the design of training devices addressed to advisers in order to assist candidates in their preparation. Based on ethnographic observations conducted in a training organization in the field of Social Work, our data consists of audio recordings of guidance interviews between advisers and candidates. Firstly, the research focused on discourses of experience produced by candidates and advisers. We analyzed them separately from interactional context in which they are produced. From a textual, discursive and enunciative perspective, we are interested in the characteristics of the discourses of experience to understand the activity they involve from the point of view of the actors, the experiences they summon, and the fictional activity areas’ emergence (the space of educational work, the space of writing activity the APL file, the jury APL space). Then, the research focused on interactions between advisers and candidates in guidance interviews, in order to understand how the dialogical activity they underlie, contributes to the development of the candidate’s discourse of experience about his work. An analysis of the trajectories of the actors engaging in the activity shows that different dialogic configurations (educator / educator; adviser / candidate; appraiser / appraisee) take place during the dialogue between the adviser and the candidate, which are like a support for the development of candidate’s thought and discourse about his work. These dialogic configurations are manifested by voices staging that summon past experiences, expected or imagined, associated with fictional activity areas separated from the guidance situation. Because they allow the candidate to engage in fictitious dialogues by reconfiguring the places taken in the relationship, these dialogic configurations give access to interpretative movements in thought and speech of the candidate's activity, and they enable a transformation of the point of view focused on the professional activity.

This study centres on curriculum development for a master craftsman level in the Printing, Newspaper and Packaging Industries which is didactically sound and takes cognisance of the dynamic vocational education and training milieu in which it occurs. Curriculum and curriculum development is viewed from a systems perspective and incorporates the specific andragogic didactic needs of the learner target group as well as the unique needs of an industrial sector. Because the National Qualification Framework model advocates an outcomes-based approach to curriculum development this necessitated the identification of a suitable standards generating process to articulate the master craftsman unit standards into a qualification capable of being recognised by the National Qualification Framework. The nature and complexity of the underpinning knowledge, skills and competencies for the master craftsman level were quantified and qualified by means of skills and competency profiling and the development of a job outcome taxonomy of skills, knowledge and attributes which incorporated critical cross field and fundamental skills, and their underpinning knowledge requirements. Using aspects ofvarious vocational education and training models and empirical research course content was sourced, evaluated and developed into appropriate modules of learning that are congruent with the accepted competency based modular training system used in the Industries. Course maps that integrate theory and practice were developed with multi skilling milestones linked to learner certification. Evaluation of resources for the delivery of the Master Craftsman Programme was facilitated by means of a provider quality assessment and accreditation system. The interactive teaching-learning situation and the evaluation processes and procedures were developed to enhance the assessment of applied competencies in the world of work. A pilot study and unit standards generating activities are to be used as a means of implementing and institutionalising the master craftsman curriculum. The findings of this study revealed that by viewing the curriculum from a systems perspective and using a suitable curriculum development model a creative master craftsman curriculum development process could take place. The competency profiling technique and taxonomy of competencies, skills, knowledge and attributes enabled the curriculum process to be a top-down approach which is outcomes-based. / Didactics / D.Ed. (Didactics)

This study centres on curriculum development for a master craftsman level in the Printing, Newspaper and Packaging Industries which is didactically sound and takes cognisance of the dynamic vocational education and training milieu in which it occurs. Curriculum and curriculum development is viewed from a systems perspective and incorporates the specific andragogic didactic needs of the learner target group as well as the unique needs of an industrial sector. Because the National Qualification Framework model advocates an outcomes-based approach to curriculum development this necessitated the identification of a suitable standards generating process to articulate the master craftsman unit standards into a qualification capable of being recognised by the National Qualification Framework. The nature and complexity of the underpinning knowledge, skills and competencies for the master craftsman level were quantified and qualified by means of skills and competency profiling and the development of a job outcome taxonomy of skills, knowledge and attributes which incorporated critical cross field and fundamental skills, and their underpinning knowledge requirements. Using aspects ofvarious vocational education and training models and empirical research course content was sourced, evaluated and developed into appropriate modules of learning that are congruent with the accepted competency based modular training system used in the Industries. Course maps that integrate theory and practice were developed with multi skilling milestones linked to learner certification. Evaluation of resources for the delivery of the Master Craftsman Programme was facilitated by means of a provider quality assessment and accreditation system. The interactive teaching-learning situation and the evaluation processes and procedures were developed to enhance the assessment of applied competencies in the world of work. A pilot study and unit standards generating activities are to be used as a means of implementing and institutionalising the master craftsman curriculum. The findings of this study revealed that by viewing the curriculum from a systems perspective and using a suitable curriculum development model a creative master craftsman curriculum development process could take place. The competency profiling technique and taxonomy of competencies, skills, knowledge and attributes enabled the curriculum process to be a top-down approach which is outcomes-based. / Didactics / D.Ed. (Didactics)