Educational research as an authentic learning situation : perspectives of a student co-researcher

Abstract

"The PAREA program regularly supports college initiatives in the implementation of research related to pedagogy. In recent years, the program has added an obligation to its requirements: any researcher presenting a project must commit to including a student on their research team. While this obligation is theoretically very interesting, it nevertheless implies a certain pragmatic reflection for the research team: how to choose this student resource? What tasks should be entrusted to them? How should they be supervised? What ethical dimensions should be consid ered? Moreover, the inclusion of a student also leads to a reflection on the posture of the research team toward this person: will they interact with the student based on the principle of equality? Do they want to train this person in research, or give them basic tasks that will make them an "administrative" resource? Behind this question lies another, more fundamental question: what can a student really gain from the experience of participating in an edu cational research project? This article presents, through a retrospective dialogue, the research team members’ expe rience of including a student in the current PAREA project, as well as the perspective of the student who took part."--AQPC