Abstract EN:

This study, carried out in 1985, concerns 15 educational establishments situated in the amiens academie. The written word has been chosen to give an "operational definition" to the data, these having been obtained through several sorts of approach. A self-managed set of questions permits to appreciate the utilization of different types of data. The condensation of theresults is achieved on a computer thanks to the technique of segmentation. A systematic study of the non-answers has made it possible to obtain a preliminary correction of the sample trough "a posteriori stratification". It has also established the existence of a strong impression of "statutory competence" or "statutory incompetence", the impression depending of the rank of the teachers. The informative importance of the educational system is perceived as well (especially thanks to a systematic study of the potentialities of the cdi in the matter of information and of the way they may be used). On the whole, the results show a "pedagogical illeteracy" wich seems to be general. There also appears a utilization of written information inferior to that which is given in a classical way for the csp "teachers". As to educational system, the fact that it is a "bureaucratic organization" with narrow informative possibilities is largely substantiated. The convergence of the approaches makes it possible to establish the "coercive" importance of the underutilization of the written data, which thus assumes the importance of a "social fact" (cf. Durkheim).