1.3. The exercise of the reflexive habitus
The Practicum is the space in which future teachers begin to develop the habit of reflecting on their professional practice.
Pierre Bourdieu defines habitus as “a small set of schemata that allows an infinity of practices adapted to ever-renewing situations, without ever constituting explicit principles” (Bourdieu, 1973, p. 209). For Bourdieu, habitus is our system of thought structures, perception, evaluation and action, the generative grammar of our practices (Perrenoud, 2004, p. 13).
The positive habit that the future teachers must apply throughout the Practicum allows the development of a system of schemes that transfer, ground and guide future ways of thinking, of evaluating the situations that arise in the teaching practice.
The students start the habitus of thinking through the process of writing the reflective practice journal during the course.