We study in this article mathematics teachers’
documentation work: looking for resources, selecting/designing mathematical tasks, planning their succession, managing available artifacts,
etc. We consider that this documentation work is at the core of teachers’ professional activity and professional development.
We introduce a distinction between available
resources and
documents developed by teachers through a
documentational genesis process, in a perspective inspired by the
instrumental approach. Throughout their documentation work, teachers develop
documentation systems, and the digitizing of resources entails evolutions of these systems. The approach we propose aims at seizing these evolutions,
and more generally at studying teachers’ professional change.
Keywords Artifacts - Curriculum material - Digital resources - Documents - Documentational geneses - Instruments - Operational invariants - Teacher beliefs - Professional development