From School Knowledge to Everyday Life: Introducing an Alert Bell to Upgrade the Common Sense
Sophie René de Cotret, Réal Larose, Manon Leblanc
One of the aims of school education is that students develop
knowledge they will be able to use in their professional and
personal life. However, it seems that school does not
completely reach its goal. Too often, learned knowledge is not
used when it should be. Actually, many research results
illustrate the fact that well learned knowledge is not necessarily
used outside its belonging discipline, for instance in a day-today
context, even if it could be helpful. We assume that, in
those cases, decisions are based on common sense instead of
school knowledge, however the later was learned.
Developing a didactic of common sense, our research project
has two goals: the first one is to better understand the dynamic
between school knowledge and common sense knowledge
involved in day-to-day situations. The second one is to design a
device that will upgrade the common sense in order for it to
mobilize relevant learned school knowledge when dealing with
problems pertaining to real life situations. This paper will focus
on the first steps of the research dealing with the second goal. Full Text
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