AS REPRESENTAÇÕES SOCIAIS COMO ANALISADOR DA EMERGÊNCIA DE UMA NOVA PROFISSÃO EM EDUCAÇÃO: o caso dos agentes de desenvolvimento no Québec

In this paper we analyse the objective and subjective conditions of development of trades and professions within the education field while the relationships between the school, the family and the community is being restructurated. First, we define the social representation (SR) construct by differentiating it from the psychological representation a personal cognitive construct and, therefore, we demonstrate the utility of the SR construct when studying a common sense knowledge corpus produced by practioners of a new trade, the development agents in school and community in Quebec. Further on, we describe what are the indications of the construction of a SR for this new trade, the specificity of the skills and knowledges associated and the prescriptions related to its realization in interface of various complex systems such as school, family and the community.