Le collectif de travail au centre des dispositifs de prévention du décrochage des élèves en éducation physique et sportive

The signs of School dropout in Physical Education (PE) are beaded or repeated absences often based on statements simulated or not unsuited “exemptions”. These rather feminine absences often benefit from complacency on behalf of adults: parents, school nurses, doctors. As part of a research program, we tried to understand the possible PE dropout prevention characteristics by analyzing the activity of four college teachers for 18 lessons, through direct method tools (observations, semi-structured interviews, informal interviews) and indirect method tools (“instructions to the double”, self-confrontation interviews). The study shows that the activity of the classroom teacher bears similarities with other teachers as regard of dropout prevention. Concerning the management of “PE exemptions” negotiations between students and teachers can be tough and based on joint decisions to all teachers and displayed or taken individually. From there, the forms of dropout prevention in PE appear as a sign of the vitality or lack of vitality of collective labor among PE teachers.