Images de soi dans un blog professionnel d'enseignants stagiaires

There are more and more examples of schemes to support trainee teachers in the workplace through online blogs. These may have a variety of objectives. Generally, the aim is to break the feeling of isolation, encourage mutual assistance and support, develop new forms of collaboration, etc. Since September 2004, such a scheme has been in operation at Stendhal University in Grenoble, in the 2nd year of a postgraduate course in French-as-a-foreign-language. However, the aim is different: to give students a space for self-expression and in this case a collective blog, to help the "elaboration of their emerging professional identity" (Rinaudo, 2006). Taking the concept of ethos as a frame of analysis and using the tools provided by discourse analysis as applied to workplace discourses, I will try in this article to account for the different positions (or "ethos") adopted by students. I can distinguish four of them: the "student ethos", the "trainee teacher ethos", the "normative teacher ethos" and the "citizen teacher ethos".