This article continues the dialogue about “disciplinary awareness”. It proposes a contribution of geography didactics with a double aim. We use this concept to question the relationship that students establish with school geography. We continue the dialogue between didactics about disciplinary awareness by approaching students as didactic subjects and in their spatial dimension. We explore their spatial dimension and the cultural dimension of the development of their disciplinary awareness. Qualitative analyses of pairs of students’ productions reveal forms of relationship to space, as it is constructed in the didactic system and outside this system. We will discuss the concept of disciplinary awareness from the point of view of the didactic subject, as it can be constructed in geography didactics.

This article continues the dialogue about “disciplinary awareness”. It proposes a contribution of geography didactics with a double aim. We use this concept to question the relationship that students establish with school geography. We continue the dialogue between didactics about disciplinary awareness by approaching students as didactic subjects and in their spatial dimension. We explore their spatial dimension and the cultural dimension of the development of their disciplinary awareness. Qualitative analyses of pairs of students’ productions reveal forms of relationship to space, as it is constructed in the didactic system and outside this system. We will discuss the concept of disciplinary awareness from the point of view of the didactic subject, as it can be constructed in geography didactics.