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Assayas, Eva. "De l'expressivité du geste à la nécessité du mouvement : la danse créatrice du lieu intérieur." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lille (2022-....), 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024ULILH026.
Full textThis practice-led dance research is based on a transmission work: the passing on of a solo experience leading to the creation of a trio. The aim is to analyse the ability of such a gesture to make explicit inner sensations, and to identify how this sensitive knowledge can be deepened while avoiding passing on choreographic movements from body to body. The research is thus led by a choreographic practice which defines its epistemic field. Following a pragmatic approach, attention is given to the experience of choreographic work and to the reflexivity of this experience: in this context, knowledge is to be understood as the result of a situated and embodied practice. Similarly, the research's aesthetic dimension is assessed through its ability to share an experience with and upon art: Dans le creux de l'absence trio is both an artistic creation and a way to explore the conditions of the creation process. Based on the hypothesis that a gesture can only burgeon from an “inner territory”, this research breaks down the act of choreographic creation in order to reveal the path from expressive motion to inner necessity. Following both poietic and aesthetic approaches as well as sensitive and reflexive paths, the research led to identify a certain state of dance in Le Vrai lieu solo's and to separate it from its body of origin. Defining the writing and sense of space underlying this state of body then helped build the necessary choreographic tools to its creation and transmission. These tools, in return, unveiled a certain aesthetic form and underlined the importance of space in creating this common gesture: they helped turn the inscrutable sensation of an “inner territory” into that of an “interstitial space”, created and shaped by a choreography of emulations. The “body-space score” laid out in this thesis reflects the development of this “search/transmit/create know-how”. This practice-led research doesn't claim to rationalise artistic creation nor to pinpoint the places of uncertainty that contribute to its development. It suggests a path to overcome the idiosyncrasy of the body as a work of art: navigating through the multiple ways of heuristic practice and the intertwining bodies of three dancers, it aims to clarify, question and transform the characteristic elements of a choreographic work
Barbier-Le, Déroff Marie-Armelle. "Réalité gestuelle du quotidien : pratiques et représentations, savoirs et savoir-faire dans une société rurale en mutation, la Bretagne au XXe siècle." Brest, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996BRES0001.
Full textAraya-Chacon, Andrea-Maria. "La gestion de la mémoire didactique par le professeur dans l'enseignement secondaire des mathématiques : étude du micro-cadre institutionnel en France et au Costa Rica." Toulouse 3, 2008. http://thesesups.ups-tlse.fr/187/.
Full textThis thesis analyse the teachers' didactic memory management in mathematics' class: the management of phenomenons that take back to the indexing on the time of the objets of knowledge and the rapports to these objets of persons or institutions. Two hypotheses are worked on: in managing memory the teacher lean on the elements of the "institutional micro-famework of memory" considered as an institutional referential system of pupils and teacher didactic past; the opération of each institution-class provokes effets on the mémorial management carry out in class. The thesis thus situates itself within an anthropological of knowledge approach and bases itself on the analyses of scholar studies practices of pupils organised and supervised by teachers. A typologie composed by nine "memorial gesture" is proposed: gestures that are settled by the "memorial support" that the request and other related to the re-interrogations or re-organisations of persals' pupils rapports to the knowdlegde objets. These "memorial support" are systematized on the "micro-framework of memory" model articulated into three dimensions: temporary, positionnary and the ones related to the objets and rapports of these objets belong to the class cognitif univers. In the last part, the thesis approaches the effects that the organisation of the study, the didactical contrats and the dominant epistemological theories of the mathematical activity in class may induce on memory management by teachers
Bouchard, Véronique. "L'état du geste : recycler l'histoire d'objets culturels et de savoir-faire hérités /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2006. http://theses.uqac.ca.
Full textLa p. de t. porte en outre: Communication accompagnant l'oeuvre présentée à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi comme exigence partielle de la maîtrise en art. CaQCU Bibliogr.: f. [69]. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU
Mezui, M'obiang Samuel. "Les gestes professionnels, entre savoirs scolaires formalisés et savoirs d’expérience dans la formation des enseignants de maintenance des systèmes motorisés au Gabon." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3007.
Full textThis thesis deals with the training of teachers. In the context of Gabonese maintenance trades are organised on a large variety of professional practices. Appreciates posture adopted this diversity by professors of the ENSET students and the impact of the training on their evolution. The goal is the change in the knowledge of teachers. The study presents the comparative analysis of the activity of two groups previously subject to different educational approaches. She is interested in the static ignition timing. Submitted to the same questionnaire, the pre test and post test, and a semi directive interview, productions have undergone a qualitative analysis of content on mastery of concepts, the construction of the gestures and adaptability to technological change. The results show best prerequisites of the witness to the pre test group; a better acquisition of concepts in the experimental group the test post; a good overall efficiency during the classical ignition timing; a good transfer of knowledge in the experimental group during the change in technology and a better conceptualization of the situation of the experimental group when the verbatim. This thesis is that the identification of key concepts and putting them in perspective in professional situations representative of diversity, is a possible solution for these courses. It postulates that the knowledge of the principle, associated with the acquisition of skills in technology, is capable of adapting to the use of the trained students
Le, Bellu Sophie. "Capitalisation des savoir-faire et des gestes professionnels dans le milieu industriel : mise en place d'une aide numérique au compagnonnage métier dans le secteur de l'énergie." Phd thesis, Université Victor Segalen - Bordeaux II, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00630386.
Full textRibault, Patricia. "Pour une ontologie du geste : à notre corps défaillant." Paris 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA010551.
Full textChassaing, Karine. "Elaboration, structuration et réalisation des gestuelles de travail : les gestes dans l'assemblage automobile, et dans le coffrage des ponts d'autoroute." Paris, CNAM, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006CNAM0539.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to highlight the complexity of the organization of gestures learned on the job, in a social context which tends to deny the role of manual work and to underestimate the complexity of gestures. In line with the scientific literature published in fields such as physiology, neurophysiology, psychology, ergonomics, it seems justified to attempt to understand and describe the complexity of the gestures in order to better comprehend their development. To do so, we have defined this complexity according to four categories of characteristics: gestures may be composed, invested, located and constructed. However we renew these approaches, by placing emphasis on the structuring of gestures so as to complete the idea of complexity and by suggesting a model based on the concept of “sequences of gestures”. We conceive these “gesture sequences” as a specific type of skills relating to body movements. They are personal, in that body movements are specific to each individual. We conducted analyses on work gestures in two different industries: car assembly lines and expressway bridge casings. We show that operators, through their personal and team work experience, develop principles on the use of their body at work which make them more effective and efficient in their job. These principles are components of the “sequence of gestures” that apply to each specific action and can be transferred from one situation to another. We also study the different modalities of construction of these gesture sequences, which draw on different fields of experience. The results gathered are marked by the organization patterns prevailing in specific professional environments. In car assembly lines, the “gesture sequences” resist the standardization of the work. In expressway bridge construction, often characterized by very different environments and a culture of specialized jobs, we lay more emphasis on the structuring and development of gestures in a context of transmission of know-how. Our findings contribute to suggesting possible changes and actions to cope with standardization, to consider health-preserving systems at work, to promote the improvement of working conditions and to pass on the know-how relating to gestures at work
Rojas, C. Pablo. "Le développement du savoir-faire musical." Paris, EHESS, 2015. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01231756.
Full textThe present thesis bears on the development of musical skills. It attempts to conceptualize the way an upcoming instrumentalist learns the skills developed by previous generations of musicians. Our research is based on longitudinal fieldwork and recordings of lessons of musical instruments (guitar, piano and violin). We start with the intuition that musical phenomena are best characterized as an animated flux, a motion carried on and across the body and the subjective field. Musical listening thereby requires active participation on the part of the subject - and forms a skill. There is an intimate connection between perception and skill due to structural community of their modes of constitution and their expressive quality. Hence, the motion that incarnates musical phenomena is not only kinetic, but kinesthetic. As she progresses through the arcana of instrumentalist craftsmanship, the apprentice develops the musical topography of her instrument. She does so via an exploratory process by which she trains her ears, educates her attention, and learns gestures that are cut out to the morphology of her body and the characteristics of the instrument. Skill transmission (musical or otherwise) usually requires tuition, a process by which instructor and apprentice engage in a form of didactic companionship. Rather than attempting to hand over ready-made schemes, the process of tuition brings apprentices to form their own gestures. These gestures aim to be harmoniously effective, compliant with tradition, yet their motivation is not merely practical, but also aesthetic, stylistic and mythical
Prévost, Bertrand. "L'art du geste : manières et stylistique du corps dans l'Italie de la Renaissance : discours, pratiques, images." Paris, EHESS, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EHES0061.
Full textHow gestures became an aesthetic problem for the Italian Renaissance? The nalysis of three discursive forms (theory of art, theory of dance, theory of behaviour) makes it possible to distinguish two main directions. The first aims to compel the gestures to the order of Representation. The second deals with grace, as an art of gesture beyond art, and implying a profound aesthetic system, consisting in scattered intensities and action in distance. Second part considers how the visual arts of the second florentine Quattrocento intervene into gestural practices (fighting and love) to precipitate and intensify them rather than represent them. A new notion of "manierism" can be operative to understand what rise in painting. A more specific analysis of Pollaiuolo's and Botticelli's paintings leads to dissociate gestures from any bodily form and any notion of "language of gestures"
Puigségur, Péraud Stéphanie. "Gestes, figures et écritures de maîtres ignorants : une étude du rapport du philosophe au savoir chez Platon, Montaigne et Rancière." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100119.
Full textHow do philosophical gestures take shape in the written work and emerge for the philosophical reader, who will be able to find the dynamics of thought underlying the text on the page? To answer this question, this study will examine the works of Plato, Michel de Montaigne and Jacques Rancière. Each of these authors mobilizes specific figures or characters and writings to give access to the characteristic gestures of the « ignorant master ». They develop and teach a singular relationship with knowledge, breaking with earlier philosophies and with the scholarly discourse of their time. This thesis defends the idea that the relationship between the ignorant master and his disciple is analogous, in the works of each of these philosophers, to that of the text with its reader, insofar as they express, each in their own manner, the philosophical gestures of their author. The first part of this thesis analyzes the nature and functions of the figures or characters, gestures and philosophical writings present in the texts of these authors. The following three parts demonstrate how the philosophical and pedagogical power of their works builds on the coherence between these gestures, figures and writings of the ignorant schoolmasters
Eyland, Isabelle. "Les savoirs professionnels liés au care chez les infirmiers libéraux : construction d'un outil d'analyse des gestes professionnels liés au care dans des situations de soins." Thesis, Montpellier, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MONTD012/document.
Full textThe term care has become, in recent years, increasingly popular in various fields such as education, sociology or politics. Historically, the notion of caring, care, has always been attached to the nursing function. The first references to the concept date from the 1970s in the USA and have given rise to many works, writings and definitions. This dissertation in Education Sciences focuses on the organisation of professional gestures related to care provided by nurses in private practice in rural areas. The research question is: In real work situations, what professional gestures related to care do the private practice nurses mobilize and what types of professional knowledge are they based on?The objective, through research carried out, is a double challenge. The first step is to identify the professional gestures related to care in order to make them visible and to question their possible added value in care. Secondly, it is proposed to develop a tool for the analysis of care gestures in order to inform the activity of nurses during care and to approach the concerns of professionals in work situations. In a training context, this tool would permit the analysis of care situations and to identify the mobilization of professional gestures related to care
Caplat, Jacques. "Quand le geste technique transforme l'intention : l'évolution de l'accordéon diatonique en Bretagne." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH139/document.
Full textThis work aims to understand why and how the Breton diatonic accordion has undergone a profound organological and stylistic transformation during the last decades. The evolution of the instrument here reflects the historical and social dynamics, that the accordion has integrated into its very form because of its rare plasticity, bringing them into light. The status of professional musicians in a largely amateur context, the roles and mechanisms of learning traditional knowledge initially based on orality, the fluctuation of social expectations through successive generations, are some of the aspects that unfold over the course of the study and connect with one-another.Starting from the observation of a progressive organologic change, we will seek to understand the profound changes of the social functions played by the instrument. A historical overview will allow to define the intentions and the status of the "pioneers" of the revival of the Breton diatonic accordion in the 1970s. Based on this foundation, we will show how the accordion as a tool is in close and permanent interaction with the musician's gesture and with his intention (producing notes – and in what social function), and how much the passage of generations has renewed the context of use of the accordion and the status of Breton music said "to be danced". Thus, we will see that the progressive modification of the intention led to a modification of the instrument, but that this, in turn, weakens the effectiveness of the previous intentions
Pogranova, Slavka [Verfasser]. "Les pratiques des enseignants en formation initiale : la construction des savoirs, les gestes didactiques et l’alternance des langues en classe d’allemand et d’anglais à l’école primaire / Slavka Pogranova." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1230717501/34.
Full textLe, Bellu Sophie. "Capitalisation des savoir-faire et des gestes professionnels dans le milieu industriel : mise en place d’une aide numérique au compagnonnage métier dans le secteur de l’énergie." Thesis, Bordeaux 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011BOR21825/document.
Full textIn large industrial companies, the transmission of the embodied in professional practices traditionally takes place as part of a series of training courses given by former operators and of journeyman practices implemented directly on site. This situation will undoubtedly change, because nowadays many companies are facing the problem of a massive departure of operators into retirement. This requires, on the one hand, the preservation of the appropriate professional gestures for the maintenance of aging technical plant, and on the other hand an adaptation of the professional gestures to technological evolution. In the energy sector, Electricité de France (EDF) is also confronted with this issue of the evolution of these journeyman practices. For the company, the situation is rendered more complex as a result of highly variable practices due to the presence of almost one hundred power generation plants with a wide geographic distribution, and with diversified generation methods involving different cultural practices (nuclear, thermal, hydraulic).The present research addresses two objectives:(1) On the theoretical level, we sought to understand, based on field data, the nature of the explicit and implicit transmission and formalization of knowledge underlying the performance of professional gestures. This takes place: - on the one hand, by means of the confrontation of the existing approaches in the different schools, at international level, with the empirical reality; - and, on the other hand, by means of the identification of the gap in the literature as concerns the treatment and modelling of tacit knowledge and embodied know-how as compared to the practical requirements of transmission.(2) On the practical level, we sought to develop an approach to situational learning of embodied know-how by exploring the recourse to digital ethnography tools. This aims:- on the one hand, to perpetuate the knowledge linked to the gestures;- and, on the other hand, to devise a method for the creation of structured, video-based educational supports. This practical phase has afforded the opportunity to test our models on real life cases. The combination of technical, theoretical and methodological tools we applied has led to the design of several products.We designed, and tested on the field, a method for the capture and analysis of professional gestures. This method is based on dual video recordings: an external camera and a subjective camera mounted on the safety helmet of the operator performing the gesture. This recording is coupled to a specific protocol of oral expression whilst performing the gesture.We also modelled, tested and formalised a teaching resource in an educational setting: the Multimedia platform for APprenticeship (MAP). It is based on a decomposition and structuring of the gesture illustrated primarily by annotated video but also by means of functional schematics images, photos, etc. This decomposition results from the analysis of the gesture carried out upstream and based on Russian Activity Theory and Perceived Quality.These two products provide an operational chain intended for the trainers of EDF’s Training Division, for the capture and transmission of the tacit and explicit knowledge involved in professional gestures. The incorporation of the MAP into EDF’s educational system, in real life training sessions, has been very positively evaluated and received by both trainers and trainees. In May 2011 it was decided to launch the industrialization phase of the method and the MAP throughout the company
Angot, Céline. "Gestes accomplis et paroles ouvrières : approche anthropologique du travail au plateau des Capucins à l'arsenal de Brest : culture ouvrière et savoir-faire entre mutations et patrimonialisation." Thesis, Brest, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BRES0046.
Full textThe project “Espace Penfeld” follows on the global development politics of Brest urban area. Owing to the current company DCNS restructurings and privatization as well as the progressive retrocession of certain military spaces in the community from Brest, three operational sites were identified within the framework of this mission: the Capucins industrial site is one of them. The city planning of this symbolic place offers the opportunity to value the metropolitan functions of Brest around economy, culture, research and housing environment. My thesis in ethnology participates in the process analysis of the local heritage valuation of this military-industrial site, the transition from an industrial to a cultural sphere. Today, my thesis shows the building of the «Arsenal culture» onto the Capucins industrial site under its cultural, social, and technical dimensions, using key concepts of ethnology as a frame of reference the rituals and the rites of passage. The study also allowed several in-depth studies namely: - The industrial landscape of the arsenal of Brest and its mutations. - The metallurgical factory construction of the Capucins industrial site. - The evolution of the working conditions and the labor-union events. - Statistical data collection with the aim of establishing the social and geographical origins of the apprentices working in the arsenal of Brest. - The influence of the arsenal over Brest political world. From now on, this project makes possible the valuation and the preservation of a piece of memory and history of the Capucins industrial site and the arsenal of Brest
Moneyron, Anne. "Eco-savoir, transformation expérientielle et alternances : contributions à l'approche anthropo-formation du geste à partir de "conversations" sur la peur de la nature et la vigilance avec des bergers transhumants des Pyrénèes." Tours, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001TOUR2034.
Full textGuengard, Marianne. "Formation des chefs de choeur. Approche descriptive et compréhensive de l'enseignement-apprentissage de la direction de choeur. Un exemple "la levée"." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040001.
Full textThis thesis has the purpose investing in the research of musical education in France. It isfocused on specialised teaching for choir conductors and hence studies the practicesundertaken by both the student and the teacher interdependently, by analysing the conductinggestures in a real teaching-learning situation. The research specifically takes an interest in theteacher's work, and seeks to highlight the role of the latter in the building of knowledge linkedto a particular technical element: « the upbeat ». Of particular importance is the way in whichthe teacher structures the lessons, organises the layout, in terms of “the environment” in orderto direct the students towards targeted learning
Desault, Monique. "Le rôle de la littérature et de la philosophie pour enfants dans l'éducation aux valeurs. Quels gestes professionnels ? : l'exemple de l'"Anneau de Gygès" au cycle 3 de l'école primaire." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30046/document.
Full textThe objective of this thesis concerns the education of values at the primary school through a system combining literary practices to those of the philosophy for children. Guided by the idea that in the elaboration of moral judgement, the affectivity precedes the work of the reason, we wanted to verify the major role played by the imagination and the empathy. In this perspective, the literature held a privileged place in the mediation. This research is based on sessions organized in classes in the 3rd cycle as from the platonic myth : ‘the Ring of Gygès’ and tries to answer to two main hypotheses : 1st hypothesis : when the discussion with philosophy aims begins with literary fictions, the pupils tend to develop ethical requirements and a capacity of deep thinking on values thanks to the empathy they have for the fictive characters and the teacher’s mediation. 2nd hypothesis : the mediation played by the adult and the quality of his professional gestures is one of the key of this development. The issue is to demonstrate the conditions which would favour the ‘education of the person and the citizen’ in order that literature deserves to appear in the pillar ‘Humanist Culture’ of the common teaching of the primary school
Vermorel, Catherine. "La gestuelle dans le portrait peint de la Renaissance italienne (XVe-XVIe siècles)." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAH011.
Full textThe portrait, long considered as a rigid pictorial genre, became increasingly lively through the progressive introduction of gestural expression. This idea appeared as early as 1440 in Filippo Lippi’s female portraits, in 1450 in Andrea del Castagno’s painting of a man and in 1470, in Antonello da Messina’s mimes. But the standard surrounding is bust-length portraiture and other restrictions on movement, imposed by the commissions, lasted until the 16th century. Despite various dissenting works, such as those of Antonello da Messina, Leonardo Da Vinci, or later, Bartolomeo Passerotti, the Princely model held sway.In Antiquity, three literary categories, each with a different approach, addressed the appearance of the body and civilization of the customs : educational precepts often contained within vaster literary works, physiognomic treatises — which attempt to read from faces an individual’s intentions and destiny — and rhetorical studies which, in particular, concern the ethos and the pathos, but equally the orator’s gestures. During the Renaissance these three disciplines all influenced various domains, which are interested, at one point or another, in the gesture. The Quattocento’s didactic treatises, which paved the way for a true reform, were replaced by manuals of etiquette in the 16th century. From 1455, the Lombard dancing masters wrote the initial elements of a theory of dance. Artistic treatises on painting and sculpture insist on the decorum which included gesture. At the very beginning of the 17th century, a certain number of modern conventions were recorded in illustrated collections of chironomy.Far from considering the finger, the hand or the members as semantic details, this thesis shows that body movement is a social signal to be placed back in its environment. It open on the history of education, central in that of gesture, as well as on that of the genre, or still the place of children and the parenthood. An important place was dedicated to the history of the garment, the one that was chose for these pictures.Through this work, it becomes obvious that the Middle Ages are not the only period to have seen developing a "civilization of the gesture". The analysis of texts, of Antiquity as of Renaissance, reveals a remarkable continuity in the conception and the theories relative to the body movements, underlain by the Oratorical Institution, particularly the part dealing with the actio. Quintilien had a long-term reception in the arts of preaching and, in a more subtle way, his qualities of educator and observer of the childhood also favoured his transmission in the educational frame. This author taught the use scheduled of the gesture to support the speech, considering a defect the carelessness in "the toga, the shoe and the hair". Already for him, this care was to be imperceptible, the education and the body care becoming as a second nature, the sprezzatura before time. Browsing our images, the reference to the actio that got established since Antiquity in education, expression, and both pictorial and theatrical imagery, acknowledges how precocious that civilization was and how perennial it has been.The gesture is asserted as a living heritage, transmitted more or less consciously through time, through a myriad of conduits and disciplines, including the portrait, both as recipient and vector
Bouchard, Véronique. "L'état du geste : recycler l'histoire d'objets culturels et de savoir-faire hérités." Thèse, 2006. http://constellation.uqac.ca/431/1/24995125.pdf.
Full textGarneau, François-Xavier. "Écriture de l’histoire et geste littéraire : la production du savoir historique chez Javier Cercas et Daniel Mendelsohn." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24185.
Full textThis dissertation aims to examine the novels Lord of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn to see how their authors produce knowledge on history and on familial and collective memory. Both writers focus their novels on their great-uncles: Cercas’ great-uncle died in the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) fighting with the Francoist army. Mendelsohn’s great-uncle was killed in Poland in 1942 during the Shoah by bullets with his wife and four daughters. In their texts, Cercas and Mendelsohn reconstruct the different stages of their researches to find out about the lives and deaths of their great-uncles. In order to reflect on the literary texts they wrote and its relations to history and familial and collective memory, we first make a summary of some of the recent debates in the academic field about the relationship between literature and history. We go on by analyzing the metatextual and self-reflexive devices both authors use, to see how they reflect the ethical, methodological and epistemological issues of their approach and the complexity of the knowledge they produce. Finally, we look at how Cercas and Mendelsohn use archives in their texts. By doing so, we can see how archives, mostly photographic archives, are used as devices that reflect the identity and memorial link that connects both authors with their great-uncles.