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principle of action precisely. We have thus defined 52 rules of action to sharpen the 11
principles of action which we had singled out.
2.3 Working out of the content and necessary teaching conditions : these conditions
concern more the academic teaching than our federal preoccupations.
First of all, we shall stress the links between speleology and other outdoor
activities. Its relationship with mountaineering is quite obvious ; one has been able to
consider speleology as mountaineering but upside down or the other way round. But
speleology is also linked with sports in running water. In France, these three federations
(FFME for climbing, FFCK for canoeing and FFS for caving) must, for that matter,
manage canyon descent together. The connections between those different activities
are finally attested, as we have seen above, because we have managed to lay down a
transversal characteristic at the level of the fundamental principles of action (discovery of
the route, management of the potentialities and keeping of security).
The scientific subjects which are requested to conceive the teaching of
speleology are numerous : karstology, hydrology, meteorology, biospeology,
archaeology, medecine, technological and technical research, so as to make equipment
develop and to reinforce security, are the major ones.
2.4 Conclusions
It seems to us that the elements which are collected in that analysis are more
than enough to demonstrate the educational role which can be attributed to speleology,
even at the level of the attainments of knowledge, which is a role that is seldom taken
into account at school at present. On the other hand, meetings, such as the convention
called "Speleology, education and therapy" (AREJI and CDS 34,1994) show that,
outside school, speleology can play a vital role in the reintegration of young people in a
difficult social situation or in the rehabilitation of handicapped people.
KEY-WORDS : SPELEOLOGY, DIDACTIC ANALYSIS, PRINCIPLES AND RULES OF
ACTION, LEVELS OF ABILITY, TEACHING CONTENT.
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