Instrumenting research on teachers documentation work: The AnA.doc project

Abstract

The AnA.doc project aims at instrumenting the analysis of teachers documentation work. This instrumentation gives a special place to the videos of situations of this documentation work, individual as well as collective. The article presents its theoretical foundations (in particular the documentational approach to didactics), and methodological (in particular the reflective investigation), and the genesis of its development. The AnA.doc platform is structured with respect to three levels: a level of data storage for a variety of situations of teachers' documentation work, a level of analysis and commentary of these situations under the form of webdocuments, and a glossary level that helps to clarify the concepts used within a given community of research. The article presents how young researchers make use of these three levels. Finally, it proposes perspectives for development and research, within the broad frame of instrumenting research in education.