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The INSPE of Grenoble (Faculty of Education) is part of Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). It trains future primary and secondary school teachers, as well as future senior education advisers (conseillers principaux d’éducation, CPEs). It is located across several training sites. Teaching will take place on several sites.

Research

You will join Pacte, a UGA research laboratory. Pacte is a social sciences laboratory and a joint research unit of the CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, and Sciences Po Grenoble. Its members work on the construction of shared languages and cross-cutting knowledge on the transformations of our societies in their political, territorial, sociological, and ecological dimensions. The laboratory places interdisciplinarity at the heart of its practices, through the sharing and comparison of methods, epistemologies, and common research fields. Pacte mainly brings together geographers, political scientists, sociologists, and urban planners, and also includes economists and historians.

For more information, please see the INSPE of Grenoble website, as well as Pacte's.

At the INSPE of Grenoble,  you will be expected to teach human geography. You will contribute to the Master’s programs for future secondary school teachers who have passed the competitive recruitment examination, to the Bachelor’s program for future primary school teachers, and, to a limited extent, to training for future senior education advisers.

You will participate in the life of the laboratory and of the research team you choose to join in order to conduct your research, either individually and/or collectively.

Teaching

For future secondary education teachers, teaching will focus on general human geography, mainly but not exclusively on France, on the fundamentals of the discipline and its epistemology, and on the approaches and tools of geography and geography teaching, such as document analysis, graphic production, and the construction of case studies. Basic knowledge of, and an interest in, geographies of education would be appreciated.

In primary education, you will teach in the Bachelor’s program in order to strengthen students’ knowledge of geography.

The position will also involve supervising Master’s dissertations and teaching research methodology courses related to the completion of the dissertation.

You will replace a colleague on secondment. A handover will be provided by this colleague for the full teaching load.

Research

You will be involved in your own individual research projects and/or in collective research projects developed or currently being developed within the host team and within the laboratory.

You will preferably be hosted by the Social Justice team, although you will remain free to join one of the laboratory’s four other teams depending on your research interests.

You are expected to have the following skills:

• Design and deliver human geography courses, both lectures and tutorials, for a non-specialist audience.
• Become familiar with the geography curricula in secondary and primary education in order to connect teaching with students’ professional training.
• Supervise Master’s dissertations combining theoretical reflection and practical pedagogical perspectives.
• Work autonomously and in collaboration with the History and Geography teaching team.
• Work within a multidisciplinary research team.