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This web-site is dedicated to people interested
in the research program known as " course-of-action ", either
to take part in it, or to draw a part of their inspiration
from it, or to contest it. It presents a selection of texts,
past or current, not easy to find, written by Jacques Theureau,
alone or among other authors, and his list of publications
regularly updated.
Let's remind that this research program developed
in different stages since its beginning in 1973 : 1973-1976
: epistemological, ethical and political criticism end methodological
essays ; 1977-1986 : eclecticism in theory end development
of a methodology of course-of-action centered design ; 1987-1994
: first semio-logical theoretical framework ; 1995-nowadays
: second semio-logical theoretical framework. This research
program was developed by Jacques Theureau, with Bernard Tort
(from 1974 up to 1976), with Leonardo Pinsky (from 1979 up
to 1990), and, from 1983 up to now, with different PhD students
who usually continued to collaborate more or less regularly
after their PhD through different study groups or associations
and different research and development projects. Also, differnt
researchers with different research programs, partly similar,
partly complementary and partly alternative, collaborate to
it.
This resarch program connects three research
programs, qualitatively different and unequally developed
:
- in cognitive anthropology of modern situations,
the main notions of which are today : course-of-action
; collective interlinking of courses-of-action ; course-of-experience
; structural coupling ; hexadic sign ; significant structures
; principle of the primacy of the analysis of the course-of-experience
on that of the structural coupling in its totality ; distinctions
between model and modelling, between analytical and sunthetical
modelling and between empirical analytical and empirical
synthetical models.
- in ergonomics and - but with less developments
- in other technologies like professional training, organisation,
management, domotics, the main notions of which are :
concepts, criteria & indices for design ; criteria
of support and appropriabilitysituation ; supportive and
appropriable situation ; iteration of analysed situations
; distinction between empirical model and model for design.
- in philosophy, on one hand as speculative antechamber
for creating notions and methods of the two first research
programs, on the other hand as reflection in epistemology,
ethics, philosophical anthropology and political philosophy
parallel to the same two first programs.
During the last few years, the reearch moved
from work situations towards situations in sport performance,
sport training and teaching, and in education in general (classroom,
tutoring, e-learning, etc...), and also towards artistic situations.
These moves have contributed significantly to the development
of these three research programs.
This web-site has no ambition in matter of reflection
about historical evolution of notions and methods or thematical
grouping. It presents only texts according to document types.
The history and themes have to be reconstructed by the reader
with the help of some of the texts presented and of the short
notices of presentation.
The presentation of the texts follows the order :
- authors / date of publication / title + size / occasion /
presentation / link to pdf file.
Last modification December 2007
Recent or uncoming noticeable publications
not placed on the site
THEUREAU J. ( 2004) Le cours d'action: Méthode
élémentaire (seconde édition remaniée
et postfacée de "Le cours d'action : analyse sémio-logique,
paru en 1992 aux Editions Peter Lang, Berne), Toulouse : Octares.
THEUREAU J. ( 2006) Le cours d'action: Méthode
développée, Toulouse : Octares.
THEUREAU J. (uncoming, september 2008) Le cours
d'action: Méthode réfléchie, Toulouse :
Octares.
Texts recently placed or modified on the
site (see also List of Publications)
(2) Communications (in French)
{2006-JT-C116*} THEUREAU J. (2006) Le programme
de recherche 'cours d'action' : (I) Questions d'objets, de méthodes,
d'analyse et d'ingénierie (II) Ce qu'on apprend sur et
de l'activité de composition musicale, Conférence
in Atelier séminal Cette mise à jour a surtout
consisté à enlever des textes non publiés
qui sont aujourd'hui largement dépassés, en particulier
par la publication imminente de l'ouvrage Le cours d'action
: Méthode développée.
{2007-JT&SG-C121} THEUREAU J., GOLDSZMIDT
. (2007) Explicitation d'écoutes singulières,
analyse des activités d'écoute musicale enrichies,
in M. Zouinat, G. Valléry, M.C. Le Port (eds) Actes du
XXXXIIe congrès de la SELF, St Malo, 5-7 Septembre, Octares,
Toulouse.
4) Excerpts from books (in French)
{2006-JT&ND-O55} THEUREAU J., DONIN N. ( 2006)
Comprendre une activité de composition musicale : essai
méthodologique sur les relations entre sujet, activité
créatrice, environnement et conscience préréflexive
dans le cadre du programme de recherche 'cours d'action', in
J.M. Barbier & M. Durand eds, Les rapports sujets-activités-environnements,
PUF, Paris, 221-251.
(6) Articles, excerpts from books and communications
(in English)
{2005-ND&JT-C113} Music composition in the
wild: from the horizon of creative cognition tothe time &
situation of inquiry, EACE 2005, Chania (Crète), 57-64.
Contact
: jacques.theureau@ircam.fr
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