La théorie instrumentale en éducation technologique

Abstract

In the first part of this theoretical paper, we present the instrumental approach and concepts worked and developed by P. Rabardel a French teacher-researcher specialising in psychology and ergonomics. Rabardel’s work is focus on the distinction between technical object, artifact; the instrument a mixed entity; instrumental genesis; the instrumented activity in the instrumented action. In the second part, we present an example to explain how it is possible to use some concepts to analyse the activity in a teaching and learning situation - more precisely in a situation focused on designing a product through easily recognisable and analysable lines of action.