"Materialisation des prescriptions institution nelles, initiateur et reflet des pratiques de classe, Ie manuel est peu etudie pour lui-meme, sinon comme bouc emissaire facile ou comme archetype de formes pedagogiques surannees, honnies de l'education nouvelle. Mais c'est un objet d'etude sans conteste passionnant et les discours qu'i1 provoque renseignent beaucoup sur les disciplines -et leurs didactiques -qui les portent. D'accuse, il devient revelateur. Outil de son epoque, il reflete les tensions qu'elle traverse, au carrefour de l'institution scolaire pour son orientation, du secteur prive pour sa production, des classes mais aussi de la maison pour son utilisation. De la melodie rabachee a la polyphonie revendiquee ou critiquee, sa construction pose question, à l'heure des technologies nouvelles. Produit culturel important, iI s'est adapte au fit du temps et ne saurait disparaître. On peut lui prédire un avenir, meme si on ne sait pas comment ce dernier va Ie transformer. La première partie de cet ouvrage s'interesse au manuel, son histoire et ses transformations recentes sous l'influence des technologies de l'information et de la communication. La deuxieme donne la parole a une discipline double : l'histoire et geographie. La troisieme fournit Ie point de vue des didactiques des sciences et des mathematiques. La quatrieme permet de sortir de l'hexagone pour avoir un bref apen;;u des questions qui se posent dans d'autres pays, mais certainement aussi en France."--cover.

English translation: Realization of the institutional prescriptions, instigator and reflection of the practices of classroom, the manual is not much studied for itself, otherwise as easy scapegoat or as archetype of outdated pedagogic forms, excluding from the new education. But it is an unquestionably fascinating study subject and the argument it triggers gives much information on the disciplines - and their teaching aids - that take them. From defendant, it becomes revealing. Instrument of its time, it reflects the tensions it went through, at the crossroads of the school institution for its direction [leanings], from the private sector for its production, from classrooms but also from home for its usage. From the hackneyed melody to the claimed or criticized polyphony, its building [creation] brings questions at the present time with the new technologies. Important cultural product, it adapted itself with the passing of the time and cannot disappear. One can predict a future for it, even if one knows not how the latter will transform it. The first part of this work takes an interest in the manual, its history and its recent transformations under the influence of the communication and information technologies. The second one hand over to a dual discipline: history and geography. The third one provides the point of view of the science and mathematics teaching aids. The fourth one offers an opportunity to leave the hexagone [France] to have a brief overview on the issues it brings in other countries, but certainly also in France.