Towards scholarizing experience and professionalizing knowledge

The recognition and validation of experience acquired skills and knowledge is still a new fact. As a way to convert experience into knowledge, it also connects two objects, themselves linked to two different worlds: that of school and that of work. Going from this starting point and using previous researches about adult basic education, this article proposes to examine these facts in order to explore their underlying issues and processes. Finally, this is a large and dual movement that can be seen as "scholarization" of experience and "professionalization" of knowledge.