Le terrain, les programmes scolaires et les figures du géographe (Fieldwork, curricula and geographer figures)

Abstract. - Fieldwork and practice are at the joining point of pedagogical concern and geographical thought. But, in despite of many pedagogical injunctions from the 1880thies to the 1980thies, fieldworks stay scares at school. This may be related to the different figures of the Geographer : office geographer, open-air geographer and workshop geographer. These three figures of the Geographer can be associated, from the Enlightment to the beginning of the XXIth century, with three modalities for scholar geography : as memory branch of learning, as experimental and general science and as a teaching method based upon documents.