The personal framework for professional action: an instrument for teacher/supervisor reflectivity
The Référentiel Personnel de l’Agir Professionnel (RPAP), or personal framework for professional action, is a symbolic object that helps practitioners—teachers and supervisors alike—to act and/or understand within, outside and on action. Our study shows that the use of this framework contributes to piloting and guiding supervisors’ reflective processes in the context of a work-study program; indeed, the framework provides them with a tool for professionalization even as they practice their profession. By serving as a mediation instrument, the RPAP helps develop and/or strengthen the key skill of reflectivity. Specifically, it contributes to pragmatizing or conceptualizing knowledge while also enabling subjects to construct meaning on their action.