Les sciences de l'éducation et de la communication en dialogue : À propos des médias et des technologies éducatives

Abstract

Schools can not « continue on as if we were still in the days of the steam engine » and ignore the new tools for learning. On the other hand, technological modernity guarantees nothing, especially not innovation in education. The logic of socio-economics interferes with the logic of pedagogy to the point where it obscures its specificity, education becomes a market and marketing becomes educational : public ser- vice is more and more in danger. Between the « fanatics of the medium » and the « tech- nophobes by principal », there is room for building a scientific program which should bring specialists in different disciplines together to work on the epistemological, theoreti- cal and methodological aspects. At the heart of the sciences of education, this new research area, whose praxeological offshoots are many, opens a new dialogue with, nota- bly (but not exclusively), the sciences of information and communication : this is what we would like to show in what follows.