Pratiques didactiques de philosophie et performances scolaires des élevés en terminale littéraire dans les établissements d’enseignement général public de l’arrondissement de Yaoundé troisième

Abstract

This research entitled “didactic practices of philosophy and school performances of students in Terminale Art” aims at establishing the link that exists between the didactic practices of philosophy and students’ school performances in Terminale Art. This study is based on the thought that students’ school performances in philosophy are extremely poor with a success rate of 7%. This poor performance of students which is greatly responsible of school failure had motivated our investigation on the causes and effects of this phenomenon. The objective is to provide sustainable solutions on the teaching/learning process of philosophy. That is why we formulate the following general hypothesis “there is a link between the teacher didactic practices and Terminale Art students’ performances in philosophy”. To operationalize the preceding general hypothesis, it has been divided into four secondary hypotheses as followed: RH1: There is a link between the quality of didactic material and Terminale Art students’ performances; RH2: There is a link between teacher’s evaluation methods and Terminale Art students’ performances; RH3: There is a link between the number of chapters of the syllabus and Terminale Art students’ performances; RH4: There is a link between the teacher’s didactic practices analyses and Terminale Art students’ performances. From a population of 373 students and 6 teachers, representative of the general population, and thanks to questionnaires and class observation practices grid, we have collected data on the field. The data were analyzed with SPSS software and interpreted later on. The following results have been obtained at the end of the statistical analysis: RH1: X²cal (277,682) › X²lu (9,49): decision: Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected RH2: X²cal (270,031) › X²lu (12,59): decision: Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected RH3: X²cal (308,093) › X²lu (15,50): decision: Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected RH4: X²cal (311,360) › X²lu (5,99): decision: Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected The preceding results led to a conclusion that there is really a direct link between the philosophy didactic practice and Terminale Art students’ school performances. The building of sustainable performances requires therefore the student’s personal effort in his/her didactic approach, a good didactic transposition of knowledge by the teacher, a convincing didactic contract which defines the reciprocal expectations of both teachers and students, and finally a good quality of didactic tools given to them. In order to find sustainable solutions that can contribute to improvement of the level students in philosophy, some suggestions were addressed to stakeholders of education, to teachers and to students themselves. A field of research is proposed if the occasion is given to us in other researches