DIDHUM
Contact / Information
Registrar's Office – Faculty of Education
Tel: +33 (0)4 67 61 82 83
fde-scolarite@umontpellier.fr
Course manager
Option managers
Plastic and visual arts
History & geography
French literature
Registration
Montpellier Faculty of Education
Training location
Montpellier
The Didhum course is aimed at students or working professionals who wish to develop their knowledge and skills in the humanities and related didactics, in French and literature, and in history and geography. The course is designed to gradually specialize and professionalize from the beginning of M1 to the end of M2. M1 includes a majority of core curriculum units (TC), to give students time to discover and refine their choice of path.
M1 DIDHUM: course not open in 2024-2025
Hybrid training in M1 and M2 with distance learning and two compulsory group sessions per year at the FDE in Montpellier.
General objectives
The aim of the course is to consolidate scientific mastery of the issues and different dimensions of the humanities, a concept grasped in its historical, cultural and political dimensions, in relation to the didactics of the disciplines it may cover.
To this end, it considers the humanities and didactics as fields of research and training in their general dimensions, but also in the contexts of education and teaching, as well as in the contexts of cultural policies or mediation.
She questions professional practices, in teaching, training, mediation and research contexts, and analyzes the systems and methodologies developed, as well as the activities of different audiences.
This training enables you to reinforce your skills in the teaching activity itself, and move on to careers in research, expertise or training.
Under certain conditions, the course can also provide a relevant foundation for further study in the 3rd cycle (doctoral research).
Training content
The training content is organized around three axes:
1. Theoretical insights :
a) on issues that cut across educational, cultural and training contexts, particularly schools, as part of the core curriculum in M1.
b) on general didactic concepts, as well as those specific to each disciplinary option.
2. Progressive professionalization, based in particular on the reflective analysis of training, mediation and teaching practices, but also on the appropriation of conceptual and methodological devices, situations and tools, as well as on the discovery of specific professional contexts (notably through an internship) for which the course provides preparation.
3. A research approach based on the conceptual and methodological frameworks developed by the LIRDEF (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Didactique Éducation et Formation) in its three areas of research: Savoirs, Pratiques, Didactique (SPD), Éducation politique et société (EPS) and Travail, formation et professionnalités (TFP). For this course, this means:
a) in M1 as part of the core curriculum, with an introduction to research, the use of scientific articles, mastery of concepts and preparation of a research project.
b) in M2, within the specific framework of the DIDHUM course, by writing a dissertation, which involves problematizing an aspect of the profession, constructing a theoretical framework and building up and analyzing field data. This dissertation can be used as a basis for a doctoral project.
This master's degree does not prepare students for competitive examinations in primary and secondary teaching.
Organization
Mainly distance learning in M1 and M2, with the option of grouping the core PIF courses in M1 during the first week of the autumn vacations.
Public
This Master's program is aimed primarily at students and teachers (1st and 2nd grades), trainers, educational advisors, cultural mediators and others working in the cultural and educational sectors, who wish to develop their knowledge and skills in the fields of humanities education and related disciplinary didactics. Its major orientations are therefore as follows:
1. Humanities culture, humanistic culture, heritage culture, digital humanities, school culture and informal culture.
2. Didactics of French and literature.
3. Didactics of history and geography.
Access conditions
Entrance to M1: This course is open to holders of a bachelor's degree with professional experience in teaching and/or education and/or training in the humanities.
Validation of prior learning is possible, depending on the specific features of the course. For further information, please contact the course coordinators.
| Semester 1 | Volume hours student |
ECTS | |
| EU 101 | Challenges and changes in education | 45 | 15 |
| EU 102 | Introduction to research | 32 | 15 |
| Total semester 1 | 77 | 30 | |
| Semester 2 | |||
| EU 201 | Using scientific literature | 24 | 5 |
| EU 202 | Building a research project | 21 | 5 |
| EU 203 | Foreign languages and research writing | 24 | 5 |
| EU 204 | Introduction to humanities didactics | 60 | 15 |
| ECUE 204.1 | Humanities didactics | 21 | 5 |
| ECUE 204.1 A | Disciplinary didactics (depending on option chosen) | 39 | 10 |
| ECUE 204.1 F | French Didactics | 39 | 10 |
| ECUE 204.1 H | History-geography didactics | 39 | 10 |
| Total semester 2 | 129 | 30 | |
| Total Master 1 | 206 | 60 |
| Semester 3 | Volume hours student |
ECTS | |
| EU 301 | Fundamental concepts of humanities didactics | 36 | 16 |
| EU 301.1 | Common concepts | 15 | 6 |
| ECUE 301.2 A | Specific art concepts | 21 | 10 |
| ECUE 301.2 F | Specific French concepts | 21 | 10 |
| ECUE 301.2 H | Specific history-geography concepts | 21 | 10 |
| EU 302 | Research approach and methodology |
15 | 6 |
| UE 303 | Analysis of professional activity using explicitation tools | 15 | 8 |
| Total semester 3 | 66 | 30 | |
| Semester 4 | |||
| EU 401 | Didactics and training | 30 | 10 |
| EU 401.1 | Humanities and training | 15 | 5 |
| ECUE 401.2 A | Plastic arts and training specialization | 15 | 5 |
| ECUE 401.2 F | French and Training Specialty | 15 | 5 |
| ECUE 401.2 H | History-geography and training | 15 | 5 |
| EU 402 | Finalizing the brief | 15 | 15 |
| EU 403 | Analysis of professional activity to transform practice | 27 | 5 |
| Total semester 4 | 72 | 30 | |
| Total Master 2 | 138 | 60 |
All applications will be examined by a commission. Answers will be communicated to all applicants from Monday June 2, 2025. As with Parcoursup, you can either be admitted, put on the waiting list or rejected. If you are admitted, you will have a period of time in which to accept or reject the admission offer. If you are definitively accepted, all other offers that may be made to you are cancelled. Full information on this subject is available on the Mon Master portal.
Candidates on the waiting list will be called as and when they drop out.
No ranking on the waiting list will be communicated to interested parties.
All responses will be sent to candidates via the Mon Master platform.
You will be notified directly of the procedure for your final registration as soon as you have accepted an offer of admission to the master's program.
Applications (also known as pre-registration) will be open from Tuesday February 25 to Monday March 24, 2025, for all our Masters programs.
Enrolment in this MEEF Master's program is only possible in the M1 year; for information on prerequisites and entry requirements, please consult the corresponding section of the Faculty of Education website.
The approach is identical for each of the five courses in this Master's program.
Registration is a two-stage process: first, you need to submit an application via the Mon Master portal; a link to this application is already available on our website, in the "Registration" section.
To support your application, you'll need to submit a cover letter detailing your background and career plans, as well as a CV, via the Mon Master portal.
The MEEF Master's in Training Practice and Engineering offers four distinct courses:
- Didactics of the Humanities (DIDHUM) ;
- Inclusive education and practices - Ordinary class (EPI-CO) ;
- Inclusive education and practices - special education (EPI-ES) ;
- Knowledge, learning, training, identity, research (SAFIR).
The "Education et pratiques inclusives - Classe ordinaire (EPI-CO)" and "Education et pratiques inclusives - enseignement spécialisé (EPI-ES)" tracks are differentiated only in the 2nd year of the Master's program. The 1st year (M1) "Education and inclusive practices" is common.
Admission criteria differ for each of these courses. To find out about the prerequisites and conditions of access, please consult the corresponding section on the Faculty of Education website.
