Construction of mutual profits in collaborative context: theoretical and methodological issues
Referring to the results produced in two collaborative research projects, one on teachers’ in-service training (Chantier 7) and the other one on a research based design (LéA), we wish to show how the chosen methodological and theoretical frames allowed to describe the building of mutual profits in both projects. The interbreeding of praxeologies in the LéA leans on the emergence of boundary objects and on the phenomenon of brokering as results of an analysis of answers to a questionnaires submitted to participants. The co construction of knowledge in evaluation within the chantier7 makes through steps of valuation supported by various criteria of validity and viability of knowledge. Further to the analysis of the two corpuses, we wished to put to the test the concepts of boundary object, brokering and knowledge valuation in a workshop offered to teachers, educational advisers and researchers having participated in the network of the LéA. The exploratory results of this workshop allow us to make the hypothesis that they have a certain relevance to participants involved in the project steering of collaborative research. Indeed, the understanding of the functions of brokering, the identification of boundary objects borders and mechanisms of knowledge valuation seems to be useful to the monitoring of such projects and support the collaborative contract.