The MEEF Master's degree in literature, history and geography aims to prepare students for the recruitment competition for the Certificate of Aptitude for Teaching in Vocational High Schools (CAPLP) in literature, history and geography, enabling them to teach these subjects in vocational high schools. The aim of this master's degree is to develop the skills needed to teach French, history, geography and Moral and Civic Education (EMC) in vocational high schools.

This course is aimed at students wishing to train as teachers of literature, history and geography.
It allows them to follow a set of diversified courses allowing them to acquire and develop professional skills, to prepare for external CAPLP civil service recruitment competitions in history letters and to learn about and through research in the field of training in history and geography.

The training is based on an integrative logic linking courses and teaching content. Disciplinary and didactic learning are combined so that students can move from distanced reflection to professional practice.
The history-geography course offers, like all MEEF courses, a common core allowing students to access a shared culture, specific to the professions of teaching, education and training in the Reunion context.

Multidisciplinary training requiring a high level of knowledge in literature, history and geography

This course leads to acquiring and developing plural skills:
• Know the profession of teaching civil servant of the State and the teaching of these two disciplines in a specific school environment
• Know how to understand the diversity of school populations and teach the disciplines of history and geography, in accordance with middle and high school programs
• Becoming professional by implementing a research approach based on a professional question identified on one of the internship sites
• Contextualize the knowledge and skills acquired as part of the specific preparation for competitive examinations
• Know how to analyze professional practices
• Know how to present and support a professional dissertation.

Sheet of the National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP n°38356)

The training is organized in three blocks:

Setting and context 

• The professor, an actor in the educational community and the public service of National Education

Knowledge and learning

• The teacher, pilot of his teaching, effective in the transmission of knowledge and the construction of learning

Reflective and professional practice

• The teacher, reflective practitioner, actor of his/her professional development

This professional training is punctuated by several internships within the professional high schools of our academy.

Not concerned

On file, baccalaureate + 3 or equivalent

Doctorate

This MEEF Master's degree naturally leads to careers in teaching literature and history-geography as a vocational high school teacher in literature, history-geography as a permanent civil servant (subject to passing the competitive examination) or temporary worker.