The course-of-action research program : historical and conceptual landmarks

Abstract

Le programme de recherche cours d'actionThe course-of-action research program : historical and conceptual landmarks Le programme de recherche « cours d'action » : repères historiques et conceptuels

Documenting and analyzing pre-reflective self-consciousness underlying ongoing performance optimization in elite athletes. The theoretical and methodological approach of the course-of-experience framework

“…The course-of-experience framework was initially developed in France in the area of work analysis in cognitive ergonomics in the 1980s (Poizat et al 2022;Poizat and San Martin 2020;Theureau 2003). Over the past two decades, it has undergone successive theoretical refinements concomitantly to its extension to a diversity of research domains.…”

“…However, the main publications of Theureau on the theoretical development of the course-of-experience framework have been published in French-language handbooks (Theureau 1992(Theureau , 2004(Theureau , 2006(Theureau , 2009(Theureau , 2015. Recently an effort has been made to internationalize this framework by publishing updated syntheses of its progress and contributions in English (Poizat et al 2022;Poizat and San Martin 2020). In the present paper, we provide an in-depth description of this research program's concrete methodological implementation and its empirical interest in studying the pre-reflective dimensions of the activity of elite athletes.…”

“…The generic model of analysis of the course-of-experience framework, guiding the data processing, is based on the hypothesis that lived experience can be broken down from a continuous stream into discrete units assumed to be the expression of signs. This model of analysis is inspired by Peirce's "thought-sign" hypothesis and made consistent with enactive assumptions to analyze human activity as an "activitysign" (Poizat et al 2022;Poizat and San Martin 2020). The generic model of the hexadic sign offers a coherent system of descriptive components that allow a finegrained empirical documentation of the course of experience, i.e., the history of prereflective self-consciousness (see the section "Data analysis" below).…”

Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on the course-of-experience framework

“…Through this editorial, I would like to emphasize two main points to keep in mind while reading this special issue. First, the course-of-experience framework is a research program that has a long history (see Poizat & San Martin, 2020). It began in the 1980s and 1990s.…”

“…2.Poizat and San Martin (2020) give a brief overview of the history of the course-of-experience framework. This recapitulation details a) the place of the activity concept in French-speaking ergonomics, b) the course-of-experience framework first turn to cognitive anthropology at a moment of intense debate between situated action/cognition and human problem-solving and c) the decisive encounter between the course-of-experience framework and the enaction in 1986 via a meeting between Leonardo Pinsky and Terry Winograd.…”