Analysis of work plan contents : towards empowering pupils ?
In France, the use of textbooks in schools is preponderate but none of them propose the use of work plans. If work plans imply pupils’ higher empowerment and autonomy, which links with textbooks could contribute to increase pupils’ cognitive activity ? The present study aims to propose an analysis of the content of a 52 work plan corpus obtained from primary classes, enriched by approximately fifteen observations related to educational situations and by thirty teacher interviews. The complementarity of this data allows the proposal of several directions for the evolution of the textbooks towards increased pupil responsibility.