Identifier les habiletés éducatives et gestes professionnels d’ajustement d’un Auxiliaire de vie scolaire accompagnant un élève autiste

Abstract

In French primary school, a school life assistant is subsidiary staff of the teacher, to help in the schooling of a handicapped pupil, in an ordinary class. This article redraws the synthesis of a research made within the framework of a Master's degree, about the activities of these school life assistants, in French primary school. The objective is to find out resources for a good regulation of this situation of help, especially educative gestures adjustment and educative skills needed for school life assistants to fulfil there missions. Through the study of the attitude of a school life assistant helping an autistic pupil, Metis (Ulysses'artifice) and the intelligence of Kairos have been analysed concerning educative gestures adjustment, to give this educative situation a new intelligibility. The collaboration between the teacher and the assistant has also been observed, to think of better professional training.