Knotworking et franchissement des frontières de l'activité: l'exemple du travail de conception de dispositifs de formation pour enseignants en écoles de cirque professionnelles en Europe.

The communication reports on a developmental intervention relating to the activity of designing in-service training systems for teachers in professional circus schools in Europe. In addition to describing this design process, which is characteristic of knotworking, it attempts to reveal the potential for transformation that working at and crossing borders allows. The work is in the tradition of the historical-cultural theory of activity. It proposes a methodology using an ethnographic approach that accounts for the complex and distributed dimensions of this original form of design work. Similarly, the communication accounts for the processes of transformation of this activity, namely: The process of confrontation with a lack or a problem, the recognition of a shared problematic space, hybridization and crystallization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]