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Teaching swimming at primary school level : a significant difficulty for the subject

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This thesis seeks to identify and understand, from the epistemological and methodological field of psychoanalysis, the nature of the difficulty in teaching swimming encountered by four P.E. primary school teachers. It is based on a trainer’s observation witnessing the embarrassment of P.E. teachers confronted with this discipline and with a lack of ‘solutions’ to deal successfully with this professional difficulty. The clinical methodological device consists in the construction of four cases based on the interpretative analysis of the subject’s speech, collected through individual clinical interviews. This collection is completed by a clinical observation time during teaching sessions for two P.E.The results highlight a form of pedagogical inhibition, preventing the use of certain professional skills, making it difficult, if not impossible, to teach swimming to the pupils. This limitation of the teacher’s activity shows the significant effect of swimming for the subject, as it affects their relationship to knowledge. The etiological study shows the existence of unconscious and ancient causes that account for the difficulty in teaching swimming. Bearing this in mind, the knowledge of swimming can be understood as an object of desire for a subject. These results open up perspectives in the field of education sciences for questioning the relationship to knowledge of a P.E. teacher through the orientation that the desire of the subject gives to the way they use their knowledge.