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With the help of a professional autobiography of sixty years of research in adult continuing education, the article explains the references that have philosophically anchored the construction of a “rhythm-formative” problem of adult learning, throughout and in all sectors of life. This construction took place over three transatlantic periods : an initial period in Europe (1959-1969) of entry into adult life (20-30 years) in a laborious researchtraining on the meaning to life ; a second in Quebec (1969-1985) of design, construction and conduct of research programs in continuing education at the Faculty of Continuing Education of the University of Montreal (30-45 years) ; and finally a third, as professor-researcher at the University of Tours (1985-2007), in co-creation of diplomas and university research-training groups for adults (45-67 years). Two preschool philosophical anchors – Plato's cave and Rousseau's Émile – and a post-school and transdisciplinary anchoring of a systemic dialectical epistemology, appear to gradually contribute in a dominant way to the conceptualization of a “rhythm-formative” approach to the course of adult life, in two stages (experiential/formal) and three movements (auto, socio and ecoformation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alternating cycle pedagogical system has a growing interest in many countries and at different levels of education, including university. Most of the alternating cycle schools (Family Educational Centers of Alternating Cycle Formation, CEFFA, by its acronym in French) which provide a formal general and vocational training education at pre-university levels, are part of a network present in more than 30 countries worldwide called the International Association of Family Movements for Rural Formation (AIMFR, by its aronym in French). This organization, which was born in Africa under Europe's impulse, currently has its greatest projection in America. It has evolved to consolidate its identity based on the needs of training and to value the principles that inspired its creation. This article reflects on the key elements of the CEFFA that belong to the AIMFR (its "four pillars"). To do this, it starts from a bibliographic review and experiences of CEFFA pedagogy, rather than from conrete facts analyzed under a specific methodology. It provides historical aspects with some descriptive detail, from the first school to today's schools, through the birth and evolution of the AIMFR. It also points out conceptual elements that seek to briefly explain the importance of the "four pillars" of the CEFFA. And it establishes its connection with the territory through local associations of schools, which define themselves as creators of social capital "in action". The latter constitutes a remarkable contribution of the article. The other is the historical and conceptual reflection, which frames the theoretical approach of the text and highlights the importance of the pillars and of the AIMFR. Finally, it points out some keys so that the CEFFAs adhered to the AIMFR can continue to be an integrated and integrating system, anchored in reality, experience and the value of people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The publications on pedagogical practices in work-study programs describes the interactions between the school-system and the work-system (Geay, 1991) and, to do this, uses the concept of interface-system. The main hypothesis put forward by this article is that putting this reliance into perspective is a factor of vigilance, uncertainty, and incessant questioning for those who are its actors. What do we mean by interface? What gaps and what contacts does it seek to translate, to make visible or even to provoke? The question is of urgent topicality at a time when alternation has become institutionalized and generalised, its vocabulary now forming part of a common heritage, the meaning of which must nevertheless continue to challenge us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pedagogy is part of a training relationship. It is characterized by an intention to develop the person and to mobilize a configuration of knowledge. The way of implementing produces the matter of the development of the persons and makes the value of the training. In this contribution, we analyze a training system that includes two populations: young apprentices and adults in professional activity. A quantitative and qualitative survey highlights the negotiation of knowledge that takes place in the course and in the action. We demonstrate how value is constructed for the learners and how the pedagogy is implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that a system is a regulating self-organisation, we propose to discuss the modalities of an integrative alternation that we have experimented with in adult training. The regulation is approached from the angle of the training's progressive evaluation and its emancipatory aims worked out in a multiform accompaniment to self-training. As the role of reflexivity is central, we focus here on the critical reading of a tool that we have developed, the Training Experience Index (TEI), in order to gather the representations of the trainees on the way they experience training and to be able to offer them appropriate support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes and analyzes from the point of view of their major evolutions, the purposes of the work-study training of ruralfamily houses, one of the main private institutions of technical agricultural education in France. This pedagogy of sandwich training comes from agricultural trade unionism which defined modes of intervention of training agents, called monitors. Sandwich training, initially built against public primary education, had the main goal of restoring peasant family as a legitimate educational body, considered to hold the monopoly on the transmission of agricultural knowledge. However, from the 1960s, this initial purpose disappeared. With school massification, work-study programs now play the role of a second-chance school oscillating between professionali%ation function and school remediation function. During a third period, identified from the 1990s, when the urban family homes were created, these two functions came together, as evidenced by the evolution of the role of monitor: he becomes a referent adult and a "tutor" for young people in difficulty preparing to enter adult life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the training/operation course offered at the Nurse and Pediatric Nurse school of Montpellier University Hospital aiming to develop a training program based on a construction of learning through professional situations. Thinking differently the training system based on alternation between course and internship and questioning the meaning of professionalization is an opportunity to be seized in the context of health formations reengineering. In that respect, offering a dialectical-learning alternation in and through a situated and problematized activity is a judicious perspective for Nurses and Pediatric Nurses training in order to give meaning to work-study by giving a real ambition for professional learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes to break with the idealized approach of alternation. Far from political injunctions, organizational, strategic, managerial and bureaucratic after all, we propose a different reading of the alternating student in terms of pedagogy. By locating our thinking in a conception of pedagogy as expressed in teachers claiming the principles and values of the New Education, we invite you to exceed the formatted design of alternating considering it as a reflection on the relationship between education and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The various academic works about the analysis of the actual functionning of alternation in professionnal training reveal a great descrepancy with the prescriptive model, qualified institutionnal or organisationnal model. In order to take some distance from this technical coordinative model of alternation in training, the hypothesis is made that the alternant is the one creating bonds.The results of an active resarch, based on the experimentation of a pro-training arrangement made to support this bonding work, are presented and put in perspective with the initial hypothesis. This bonding work is considered a reliance activity of the alternants. Also, the pro-training arrangement built from the richness of the class-group, born from the commitment of the alternants, creates a typical dynamic which we chose to call actor-network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Partnerships in education developed in schools in the 1990s to bring answers to new socio-educational problems. Nevertheless, for the teachers of the sandwich training, they establish for a long time the indispensable condition of a really professional co-op education program. By using the sociology of the actor-network and to the concept of social relationships, we would like to qualify this speech. From the analysis of two university co-op programs, we highlight that an almost fusional partnership with an occupational environment does not guarantee necessarily a harmonious professional development, and that the absence of partnership is not still the synonym for an absence of professionalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inside vocational training systems, like those implemented in health and social sector, overcoming the gap and tensions between the times and different places of the training are the periods of practical training in the field and institute training sequences calls for the establishment of cooperation between stakeholders: trainees, trainers and tutors. The latter, regarded as lighting built-reliance, takes different forms and uses different means (educational devices, booklets, portfolios, etc.). The study of some of them showed that they can be located with reference to two poles having value paradigms: one referring to a technical vision of the training and practice of the profession (and a «technician identity), the other in a clinical approach to training and a «clinician identity» of the professions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the context, such as the social policies or the professional world in mutation, highlights the emergence of a new professional project for educators of young children during their training period, the process of professionalization and the identity building involved during the training period will be more especially studied, in relation to the practical experience gathered during the internships (Wittorski, 2009). This experience awakes in the subject a reflection and a situation of identity building through the encounter and the interactions with practical communities. While confronting with others, the student involves the realization, the self-continuity. Emotions and biographical facts are involved as well (Bourgeois et Barbier, 2006), thus maintaining the subject's continuity and identity uniqueness through the perception of others. In this article, we will relate the process of professionalization and identity building to the concept of reliance, developed by Bolle de Bal (2003), within the scope of block-release training of educators of young children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The learnings (apprenticeships) and the transformations in the alternation call up to renewed conceptions (disings). The cooperation can be there when it arouses the reliance and authorizes the emergence. It questions its ends (purposes), its practices and the sense (direction) of its productions, its epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article leans on researchs which we led as coordinator and speaker of the course "intervention in Educational Midler" within the framework of a master's degree "Education Teaching, Education Training" set up by the ESPE. The analysis of practices by becoming a dynamic space, allowed to spot and to illustrate the simultaneity of three times occurring in the process of professionalization of the students. The object of this contribution is to operate a putting in the day for the links between this simultaneity of the times and the method and posture adapted by the trainer. The results of this research exposed two axes of questioning in which we wish to continue will be discussed: which epistemology may be used by the trainer to create an open space several timesframes? What is an epistemology of training relationship? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]