“Walking around the classroom” : viability and stability of individual and collective activity in the classroom
This contribution is interested in the primary school teacher who walks along the rows, while pupils are doing seatwork. It aims to describe and analyze the activity of the teacher and pupils as well as the collective classroom spatial-temporal dynamic from filmed observations in the classroom and self-confrontation interviews. Our results show that the pupils, as much as the teacher, direct the walking along the rows by their demands for help and their “ masked activity” and that the dynamics of the collective activity allows the actors to update their concerns, making viable and stable the configuration.