Plan and control your actions to reach a goal Presentation of an educational device based on a sports practice within a scientific master

Abstract

After several years of operation in a context of ISO 9001 certification, a perspective of continuous improvement, the specifics of the apprenticeship status of our students and the desire to professionalize the training led the teaching team of the Quality Master to consider its program in a systems approach and to insert a module called personal development. In this last; an educational system based on a sporting practice has been integrated. The object is to promote awareness and develop a number of skills that learners must reuse in their approach and their assimilation of other more theoretical modules. Thirty master 1 students "Analysis and Quality" at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University Paul Cézanne Aix Marseille III, thus practiced a form of Japanese fencing for 10 hours spread over a week, none of them knew about this activity. The normal behavior of the beginner in combat appears to be "disorderly" and the first successful actions stand out as brief rational facts. The purpose of this system was to rely on the analysis of these rational facts, in particular to address the need to plan actions to achieve an objective (here, touch without being touched). The satisfaction survey conducted at the end of the training and the written work provided by the students show that this goal has been achieved. Students also emphasize the interest of exchanges and cooperation during the exercises but also the usability of the learning achieved in the overall context of their training. One of our perspectives is to continue the surveys to find out when and how these acquired skills are moreover transferred in professional life.