Entre prouesses et petits arrangements » : des professeurs d’histoire-géographie face au changement de prescription

How do history and geography teachers deal with changes in prescription? Three portraits are described to highlight how they redefine, each in their own way, the task (Leplat, 1980) of designing their teaching of the Cold War. The aim of the analysis of their activity is to describe tensions linked to their choices and compromises in front of numerous referents and determinants of the activity (Goigoux, 2007). These compromises are put into perspective with didactic researches (Audigier, 1995; Lautier, 2003; Tutiaux-Guillon, 2004, 2008, 2009) to develop a new way of thinking the conditions of development of teaching practices.