Centre de recherche sur l'éducation, les apprentissages et la didactique
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Carole
LE HENAFF

Email
carole.le-henaff1 [at] inspe-bretagne.fr
Site web
https://www.univ-brest.fr/fr/membre/carole-le-henaff
Associate Professor, Co-director of the CREAD
Statut
Full Member
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Axe de recherche
RP2 Teaching and learning - knowledge practices
RP5 Epistemologies and methods : hybridizations in educational sciences
RP6 Cooperative and collaborative research

I'm Director of the CREAD for UBO, along with Hugues Pentecouteau, Director of the CREAD for Rennes 2 University. The CREAD (Center of Research on Education, Learning and Didactics) is an educational research laboratory attached to two parent institutions, UBO and Rennes 2.

I work within the framework of the Joint Action Theory in Didactics (Sensevy, 2011; Gruson, Forest & Loquet, 2012; Collectif Didactique Pour Enseigner - CDpE, 2019, 2020, 2024). I am interested in the relationship between practices, language and culture in education. My research is situated in cooperative devices called "cooperative engineerings", which have been developed in didactics (Sensevy, 2011; Collectif Didactique Pour Enseigner - CDpE, 2024), and in which researchers, teachers, students, and school families work together to develop educational devices. I'm a member of the Collectif Didactique pour Enseigner (Collective "Didactics for Teaching").

I'm a member of the UBO's research council and restricted academic council, the IBSHS's board and the doctoral school's council (ELICCE).

I'm a member of the national coordinating committee, and of the scientific committedd, for the "Lieux d'Education Associés"/"Associate Places of Education" (LéA) at the French Institute of Education (IFé/ENS Lyon). For the University of Western Brittany (UBO), I was in charge of the research program on cooperation at the CREAD ("PRT6") until 2024, and in charge of the master's degree "Research in Didactics", at INSPE de Bretagne-University of Western Brittany, until 2024.

In 2021, I defended an accreditation to supervise research thesis, entitled "Language and Culture in Education. From The Notion of Jargon to Cooperative Engineerings in Didactics."

Since 2017, I've been in charge of the "Cultures and Languages at School" engineering project (LéA-Ifé, COREF research collective).

I'm on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Instructional Methods and of the journal La pensée d'ailleurs : revue de philosophie et d'histoire de l'éducation.

Recent books

Collectif Didactique pour Enseigner (2024). Un art de faire ensemble. Les ingénieries coopératives. Rennes: PUR.
 
Le Hénaff, C. (2024). Pratiques, langage, culture. Une approche didactique. Rennes : PUR.
 
Collectif Didactique Pour Enseigner (2020). Enseigner, ça s’apprend. Paris: Retz.
 
Collectif Didactique Pour Enseigner (2019). Didactique Pour Enseigner. Rennes: PUR.
 

Research profile

  • Joint Action Theory in Didactics (JATD)
  • Cooperative engineerings, cooperation

  • Language and cultural learning

     

Selected publications in English

Sensevy, G. & Le Hénaff, C. (2025). A Cultural Turn in Educational Action and Research. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2025.2476953

Le Hénaff, C., Alno, J., Bouvet, S. Droual, M., Fournier, T., Moreau, J. & Motais-Louvel, G. (2024). A cooperative engineering about language and culture. Some examples of collective translations, songs and gestures, to inquire on practices. Perspectiva Educacional, 63(3), 3-28.  https://doi.org/10.4151/07189729-Vol.63-Iss.3-Art.1595  

Sensevy, G., Jodry, G., Menez, P., Lesage, F. Hamard, C., Le Hénaff, Livinchik, V. & Perraud, C. (2025). Artificial intelligence as a way of entering culture. A case study in the translation of a literary work. In Stamatios Papadakis (Dir.), AI Applications in Preschool and Primary Education – Teaching with Artificial Intelligence, New York : Springer.

Sensevy, G. & Le Hénaff, C. (2025). Culture, Epistemic Kinship, and Epistemic Solidarity in Didactic Activity. Communication au colloque international European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Belgrade, Serbie, 9-14 septembre.

Sensevy, G. & Le Hénaff, C. (2024). A cultural turn in Educational Action and Research Cooperative Engineerings. Communication présentée au colloque BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting, Manchester, Royaume-Uni, 10 septembre.

Sensevy, G., & Le Hénaff, C. (2024). From The Joint Action Theory in Didactics to Cooperative Engineering as a Cooperative Design [Keynote]. Trèves, Allemagne.

Garçon, S., Coco-Goletto, L., & Le Hénaff, C. (2020). Evolution of a cooperative engineering in foreign languages and cultures. Communication au colloque international European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Glasgow, Ecosse, 25-28 août. 

Quéré, N., Le Hénaff, C., & Gruson, B. (2020). A Didactic Cooperative Engineering for the Learning of English as a Foreign Language. Communication au colloque international European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Glasgow, Ecosse, 25-28 août.

Jameau, A., & Le Hénaff, C. (2019). Learning Physics and Chemistry in a Foreign Language : the Example of the Rutherford Model at High School. Communication présentée au colloque international ESERA. Bologne, Italie, 26-29 août. 

Garçon, S, & Le Hénaff, C. (2019). A cooperative engineering in foreign languages and cultures. Communication présentée au colloque international European Conference on Educational Research(ECER). Hambourg, Allemagne, 4-8 septembre.

Jameau, A., & Le Hénaff, C. (2018). CLIL Teaching in Science : A Didactic Analysis of A Case Study. Review of Science, Mathematics and ICT Education, 12(2), 21-40. https://doi.org/10.26220/rev.2890

Gruson, B., Gueudet, G., Le Hénaff, C.  & Lebaud, M.-P. (2018). Investigating teachers’ work with digital resources. A comparison between teaching Mathematics and English. Revue Suisse des Sciences de l’Éducation, 40(2), 485-501. https://doi.org/10.24452/sjer.40.2.5072

Le Hénaff, C., & Cariou, D. (2018). Towards an epistemology of evidence in didactics of foreign languages and of history. Communication présentée au Colloque International de l’Association des Recherches Comparatistes en Didactique (ARCD). Bordeaux, France, 10-13 octobre.

Quéré, N., Gruson, B., & Le Hénaff, C. (2018). Cooperative engineering: studying the collective design of a resource for English teaching. Communication présentée au colloque international European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Bolzano, Italie, 4-8 septembre 2018.

Le Hénaff, C., & Jameau, A. (2018). Resources for Science Teaching in a Foreign Language. Communication présentée aux Colloque international Re(s)sources 2018. Lyon, France, 28-30 mai 2018. 

Le Hénaff, C., Jameau, A., Gruson, B., Boilevin, J.-M., & Thépenier, L. (2017). Teaching chemistry in English as a foreign language, a case study. Communication présentée au colloque international European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Copenhague, Danemark, 23-25 août.

Le Hénaff, C., Boilevin, J.-M., Gruson, B., Gueudet, G., Jameau, A., Kerneis, J., Lebaud, M.-P., Corbin-Ménard, J., & Quéré, N.(2015). Secondary School Teachers’ Documentation Systems. Communication présentée au colloque international European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Budapest, Hongrie, 7-11 septembre.

Gruson, B., Roussel, S., Galan, J.-P., Le Hénaff, C., & Garçon, S.(2015). Cooperative And Plurilingual Experimentations Of Cognitive And Metacognitive Strategies To Help L2 Learners Develop Their Listening Comprehension Skills. Communication présentée au colloque international European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Budapest, Hongrie, 7-11 septembre.

Le Hénaff, C., Beucher, C, Charles, F. & Gruson, B. (2014). The Impact of Vocal Synthesis Feedbacks on Primary Students’ Writing Skills. Communication présentée au colloque international European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Porto, Portugal, 2-5 septembre.

Beucher, C., Charles, F. & Le Hénaff, C. (2015). Improving literacy skills and differentiating learning speed among 1st and 2nd year primary school children in France through a computer-assisted learning tool interacting speech synthesis and content generation. International Journal of Literacies, 22(2), 1-10. 

 

PhD Supervising :

PhD: « Contribution de l’éveil linguistique à la maternelle au développement des compétences en langues », University of Western Brittany.

PhD: « Mise à l’étude de la notion d’authenticité : le cas d’une ingénierie coopérative en littérature anglaise au collège », University of Western Brittany.

PhD: « L’art de la danse », University of Western Brittany.

  • Estefanía Denisse Gracia Alcazar

     

     

    PhD: "Analyse d’une ingénierie coopérative en céramique : étude de l’art de faire des céramistes dans le cadre Colombie/France" (University of Western Brittany). Since 2025.

  • Tony Fournier

     

     

    PhD: "Coopérer à l’école maternelle : des exemples au travers de l’étude de la transmission de la culture et du langage dans une ingénierie coopérative" (University of Western Brittany). Since 2025.

  • Angélique Martinotti

     

     

    PhD: « Compréhension des mathématiques et puissance d’agir. La création de problèmes à l’école élémentaire », University of Western Brittany. 

    Since 2022.

  • Vasilisa Livinchik 

     

     

    PhD: « Ingénierie coopérative professeurs-chercheurs et langues de l’environnement scolaire » (University of Western Brittany). 

    Since 2024.

  • Xiaobei Su 

PhD: « Représentation, description et analyse d’oeuvres en didactique des langues : une ingénierie coopérative pour l’enseignement du chinois standard par la peinture chinoise classique », University of Western Brittany. Since 2023.

PhD: « Création et résolution de problèmes au CE1 : enquête collective et individuelle pour le passage d’une expérience mathématique des élèves à une culture mathématique », University of Western Brittany. Since 2023.

PhD: « Une ingénierie coopérative autour de l’utilisation des robots de sol en scolarité inclusive », University of Western Brittany. Since 2023.