Information center and of information in school

The French colleges and colleges are equipped officially with information centers and information (TDCI) since 1973 (circular of March 23rd, 1973). The concept of center replaces the concept of service then, thus putting the document at the center of pedagogy and not at the service of this one… A TDCI is animated by a Professor documentalist (possibly two, seldom more) recruited, since 1990, by a CAPES created by the Minister for State education, Lionel Jospin, in 1989. This professor documentalist has several missions, in particular that to train the pupils with the information retrieval.

To know how the institution conceives the existence and the organization of the TDCI, one can only refer to the texts defining the missions and the conditions of exercise of the personnel which has them in load. They are not the subject indeed of any standard material or financial and the local government agencies which have in load their installation and their operation must be based on their own their intuition or schedules of conditions.

History of the TDCI

1958: Creation of the first local Center of teaching documentation to the college Janson de Sailly with Paris. General inspector JACOTIN is at the origin of this creation. Marcel LORD is then headmaster of the college. During the four years which follow, the model is spread, one passes little by little to a new name: that of " Service of Documentation".
The circular of February 10th 1962 signed by J.Capelle, then Managing director of the Organization and the school programs to the Ministry, indicates the importance of the document in the pedegogic action and the necessary development of the techniques of documentation and information.
A booklet of the Head office of the organization and school programs of 1962 give the list for school year 1961-1962 of the establishments which are equipped with " collegial services of documentation". There are 219 of them on all France: 211 for the traditional and modern colleges, 6 in technical schools, and 2 in teacher training schools. The academy of Paris by far is most largely equipped: with it only, it represents more than one third of creations.
Quickly the Services of Documentation take the name of Service of Teaching Documentation and Information for the teachers, because this new space is reserved above all with the teachers. One speaks primarily about teaching documentation and the new range of material which results from this: the material audio-visuel.
1966: The SDIP become SDI (" service of documentation and information" , the mention " pédagogique" fall). The same year, Marcel LORD plans to open the SDI with the pupils. In 1973 appears a number of the review of the " Friendly of Sevres " on the topic " Documentation and information" , in homage to Marcel LORD. This synthesis of the reflections announces the dominant topics of the decade which begins: free-lance work, the pedagogy of the document. The same year, the Tallon general inspector who succeeds Marcel Lord, announces that it is necessary to give up the old name " Service of Documentation and Information " ( SDI ) with the profit of " Information center and of Information " ( TDCI ). This change of name must mean that the documentary unit should not be any more regarded as an ancillary service of the establishment, simple auxiliary near the teachers but must be regarded from now on as the resource center teaching of the establishment. Documentalists ceasing being managers of documentation to become teachers with whole share.

External bond: http://www.creteil.iufm.fr/ressources/service-commun-de-documentation/le-college-disciplinaire-de-la-documentation/articles-de-formateurs/inter-cdi/

Investigations into the TDCI

An example in the academy of Creteil: Inquire into the data-processing equipment of the TDCI: results of an investigation carried out by Grid Infodoc in 2005 ----

The TDCI of colleges

There is a Professor documentalist by college which is in load of the documentary Politique: installation, equipment, acquisitions, management, reception and formations. The TDCI accommodates the pupils over their spare time or at the documentary sessions of activities or formation to the control of information conceived in relation to the teachers. Many a action-reading are also organized. The resources are on various supports: paper (documentary works of fiction and, reviews), magnetic (audio cassettes and video) and numerical (cédéroms and Internet sites). The pupils learn how to use a documentary software.

The TDCI of colleges

The colleges also have TDCI which are opened to the pupils and to teachers. They are organized in the same way that with the college, with works, documentary and of fiction whose level corresponds to the studies. The reception of the pupils is constant. The professors documentalists benefit from TPE or ECJS to give to the pupils the documentary culture which will enable them to better include/understand and use the global offer of information in our company. The small number of documentalists compared to that of the pupils and the importance of the work of document management to the college limit these actions.

Originality of the French TDCI

It resides in the fact that the documentalists of the schools are recruited by CAPES which makes them teachers with whole share.

The Capes external includes/understands two tests of admissibility and two tests of admission.

Written n° 1: Documentary sciences and technology comprising a critical comment, a questionniare relative to situations or a technical device and a talk relating to the teaching applications of sciences and documentary technology.
Written n°2: File. The session 2007 will see the test n°2 modified: more documentary file on a disciplinary field, but a file questioning the documentary policy of the establishment.
Oral n°1: Test of documentary technique, consistent in the analysis of a step of research on a topic given in a given context. the candidates must also present a complete documentary treatment of the documents selected.
Oral n°2: Test on file. The candidates must analyze a teaching topic while being pressed on a file.

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