The problematic of 'innovation' in language and culture didactics:

a proposal for a conceptual modelling

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Original French version also available: https://eac.ac/books/9782813003621, www.christianpuren.com/mes-travaux/2021e/. 

Abstract

This article proposes modelling of the notion of "innovation" in cultural language didactics in the form of five pairs of antagonistic concepts illustrated by examples taken from the history of the discipline: innovation and continuity, innovation and conformism, innovation and myths, innovation and regression, innovation and change. This problematization leads to a modification of the perception that one may have of the evolution of the discipline, and it finally imposes the idea that it is necessary to modify the still largely dominant conception of change.