Presentation and Analysis of Supervised Personal Work in France (T.P.E./Travaux Personnels Encadrés)

Since 1999, the French Educational System has spread some units based upon the encounter between some teaching disciplines and the school documentation centre with an emphasis on the pupils’ interests, research and information re-writing methods and multi-disciplinary approaches. A set of “pedagogical barriers” seem to become open to change (a fragmented relationship of disciplines and knowledge, new constructions and assessments of the pupils’ work); however some new forms of barriers appear (such as technicist barriers, discrimination in access to information, new misunderstandings among pupils, etc.).