Que pensent les enseignants et les élèves du secondaire des TIC? : une étude des représentations sociales au Niger
In African countries in general, particulary in Niger, the computer begins to find out its way at school. This pedagogical and integration process of the communication and the information technologies is highly dependent on human, pedagogical and technological parameters. To result this process is to know the decisions and the attitudes of the actors of this school in presence of these technologies. From the social representations we can know how to think, to adopt and elucidate the daily fact of a group of individuals facing an object, in the present case, the ICT. Our investigation concerns the identification of the social representation that some teachers and students have engendered on the technologies of the information and the communication. Based on a mixed methodology, our results allowed us to write three contributions. In the first one we have investigated twenty teachers about some social parades on the attitude of the teachers towards the computer, on the risks of the computer at school and at last on its advantages. The whole of these social parades place in a prominent position the positive attitude of teachers facing the computer at school even if for some teachers, the computer is a tool that promotes the unwarranted attitude of students and is seen as a potential rival. The second objective is to know the social representation of ICT in students – Fifty (50) students coming from two schools has composed the population of our study. After submiting the conversation set down to an analyis, we come to some results that make obvious the social parades on the understanding of the ICT and on its usage in the outline of apprenticeship. Our research also had to determine if the social parades were linked to the ICT training and to its regulard usage. The results of the hypothesis test of the khi-2 show that the training of the ICT do not influence the emergence of the social representation.  The third objective, relies on the previous results, and deals with the construction of a measurement scale of the ICT’s social parades in some students. After working out the scale of measurement, it has been directed to two hundred and sixty-five (265) students of two high schools. The factorial analysis results show that the scale has a quite good internal coherence. The whole results prove that even though its using is very new in nigerien school, some social parades have been rised up the ICT. The content of these representations show the propositions attitudes to the ICT in positive the training.
TIC Niger Social representations ICT Teachers Students Scale of attitudes