La formation des enseignants d'histoire en France à l'épreuve de la professionnalisation et retour (1991-2022)

The training of history (and geography) teachers in France is analysed on the basis of the various reforms of recruitment examinations since the 1990s. The quasi-equivalence between professionalisation and pedagogical/didactic training is a constant in the arguments of these reforms, which steadily increased in line with a clear shift towards the civic dimension of the tests, regardless of political changes and in line with the managerial ideology prevailing in ministerial circles at the time. It is also a new look at the relationship between scientific and didactic aspects of teacher education. The balance between strictly disciplinary (scientific) and pedagogical content was a central theme in the debates.[Publisher's text]