The specialist teacher mediate the relationship to parents

Abstract

International audience

In France the “Maître E” is the teacher responsible for providing support to primary school pupils with learning difficulties. In recent years, the role of these specialist teachers changes: in addition to their core activity of direct support to students, they are required to coordinate efforts and cooperate with partners (Marcel al. 2007) which leads them to develop a special relationship with parents. This link with families is far from being completely described by educational policy, so we tried a better understanding of the nature of cooperation with the parents and how this cooperation is constructed by experience and integrates professional gestures of these teachers.