A proposed methodological tool for exploring professional development
In accordance with developmental psychology, professional development is located in the interrelationships between lived experience and the conditions provided by the environment. La Méthode trajectoire is a methodological tool designed to explore learning and professional development across the diversity of situations associated with a profession; the tool involves proposing a number of symbolic artifacts to subjects in order to enable them to describe this type of experience. This article proposes an exploratory study conducted with a primary teacher and a secondary mathematics teacher. The study makes it possible to identify cultural products of the respondents’ profession, and to tease out their experience of social transmission/learning processes as well as the potential for development opened up by the use of the trajectory method.