Learning to teach statistics through study and research paths

International audienceIn Brazil, as in many other countries, there is a gap between the type of statistics preservice teachers learn in graduate programmes and what they will teach at compulsory education. This paper presents the design of a study and research path for teacher education (SRP-TE) as a tool to reflect, develop, analyse, and experience teaching proposals in statistics for the final grades of the lower secondary school. The investigation is based on some principles of the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic and its proposals to locate teacher education within the paradigm of questioning the world. The proposed SRP-TE starts from a school activity about the water distribution in Brazil and its extension to incorporate dimensions of the statistical work that tend to be absent from secondary education, such as the search, collection, cleansing, and representation of data