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The current study aims to investigate how Turkish English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers understand the cultural component in language classes and the extent to which they feel to have opportunities to raise cultural awareness. The views on and approaches to cultural issuesof ten English language instructors teaching at the tertiary level across state and private universities in Turkey have been examined in this regard. A qualitative-quantitative mixed-method design usinga questionnaire and semi-structured individual interviewshasbeen adopted. The findings revealed that the teachers'opportunities to raise their students'cultural awareness were not satisfactory, and there was a mismatch between their wishes and practices. They felt ill-prepared to includeculture and tacklecultural controversiesin class.Their conceptualization of culture in English language classes was predominantly modernfroma received view of culture yet included elements from which interculturality may develop.
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What is the changing nature of Francophone community spaces in light of recent policies emphasizing Francophone immigration? We present two arguments based on a comparative case study of London and Ottawa in Ontario. First, we highlight that the maintenance and vitality of these spaces appear to be at risk given the precarious situation they currently face; and second, we advance the notion that these spaces are becoming increasingly plural. Our discussion focuses on three main themes: the role of these spaces and the opportunities they can provide, issues of community invisibility, and the challenges of maintaining these community spaces.
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Diverse Indigenous nations have traditional territories inside Jasper National Park (JNP), but the park was established without consultation with local Indigenous communities. Parks were marketed as empty landscapes, which celebrated romantic ideas of European colonial expansion. The current representations of Indigenous Peoples in interpretive content still reflect this lack of consultation. This research was guided by Indigenous methodologies. Data was collected through interviews with Jasper Indigenous Forum (JIF) members and the JNP management team. Findings indicate that JIF members want increased representation and greater control over how their histories and cultures are presented. Park management needs to work in close consultation with the JIF if they want to improve Indigenous representations in the park and support processes of reconciliation.
Keywords: Indigenous, Parks Canada, First Nations, consultation, representation, interpretation, cultural awareness, national parks, Métis, Jasper National Park, protected areas
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At a time when American and European brands communicate on childlike behavior in adult consumers, this paper explores the inner child concept through an ethnography of cosplay conducted in the US and France. Findings reveal a certain degree of homogeneity between American and French behaviors. We therefore suggest that companies who do business in these countries consider the critical role of play during consumption experiences and more particularly consumers' preference for disorganized and spontaneous play.
Keywords: comportement enfantin, jeu, paidia, ethnographie, cosplay, réalité, childlike behavior, play, paidia, ethnography, cosplay, reality, comportamiento infantil, juego, paidia, etnografía, cosplay, realidad
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Teaching about the Holocaust is mandatory in many societies. This prescription is justified by authorities with many reasons: educating pupils for a better understanding of human rights, peace, war, genocide, critical thinking, historical thinking, racism, etc. The Holocaust can carry a very strong moral and emotional charge. But why do teachers choose to teach about it when it is not compulsory? And how do they do this? Which resources do they use? What content is their teaching based on? This case study focuses on three high school history teachers in Quebec and explores their educational objectives in teaching the Holocaust and related pedagogical practices, including a field trip to the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.
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Coopetition combines paradoxical forces: competition and cooperation. Many previous works have examined the forces driving competitors to cooperate. Little research investigates the factors driving competition, in particular the influence of power in the case of client-supplier coopetition. To fill this gap, a longitudinal case study is being conducted in the telecom sector. It concerns the coopetition between the French operator Orange and Apple its device supplier. The study shows that supplier dominance combined with low trust fosters competition in customer-supplier coopetition.
Keywords: coopetition, customer-supplier relationship, dominant supplier, trust, procurement, coopetition, relations client, fournisseur, fournisseur dominant, confiance, achat, coopetencia, relaciones cliente-proveedor, proveedor dominante, confianza, compra
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This article addresses the school experiences and vocational choices of youth from immigrant backgrounds who pursued English postsecondary studies in Montreal after completing their secondary education in French. Using a sociological approach emphasizing agency, life story analysis revealed that the relation youth developed to French school and the vocational culture spread by their peers and parents played a role in their choice to study in English at the postsecondary level. The analysis underlines intergroup boundaries at high school between “youths from immigrant background” and “French Québécois”. In conclusion, some suggestions on formal and informal curriculum are made to better the “living together” in schools.
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Legal blogging is an emerging phenomenon in Quebec compared to other legal systems where it is has been a longstanding practice. The Quebec legal blogosphere now has around fifty active blogs which remain largely unknown to the legal community, the latter generally granting them no value. Yet, they are reliable tools for disseminating legal doctrine and case notes, which Quebec judges are now much less reluctant to employ.Relying on foreign and Quebec examples, this article attempts to demonstrate how legal blogs can contribute not only to the dissemination of legal knowledge in an original way, but also serve to criticize and transform the law. To do so, this article first proposes to quickly draw a picture of the Quebec legal blogosphere. It follows up with a discussion about the nature and value of blogs' contributions, and finishes by questioning the influence, actual or potential, of legal blogs on legal actors.
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This article aims to analyze the challenges for the promotional function of law, as theorized by Norberto Bobbio, in the cultural sphere, in the context of multilateral and bilateral trade. In particular, this article aims to analyze multilateral negotiations conducted within the WTO, free trade agreements (FTAs), and, most generally, the most “legally relevant steps” for the EU and Canada with regard to the protection and promotion of culture in their external trade relations. Concerning the FTAs it focuses on CETA, TPP, CPTPP and CUSMA as well as on TTIP negotiations. This article argues that the positions of the EU and Canada can no longer be considered constant over time. On the contrary, since the adoption of the FTAs they vary significantly. According to the negotiations/agreements, the incentives for the audiovisual sector or, more generally, for the cultural industries, are more or less protected and go through “ups” and “downs.” Regarding the possibility for the EU and Canada to introduce and retain support schemes for cultural diversity, the article suggests the metaphor of a promotional law of cultural diversity on a roller coaster ride. The analysis of each negotiation, agreement, or “step” therefore becomes essential to understand how the EU and Canada address the challenge of using promotional law to encourage culture, and therefore cultural diversity, in the face of global trade. This is accomplished by applying an approach of law in context, which makes it possible to uncover the economic and sociopolitical interests at stake. Furthermore, this article explores the challenges for a promotional law of cultural diversity both of the broader geopolitical framework, in which China has become a major player in global trade, and of the digital environment. In concluding the analysis on these topics, it underlines that they will highly likely be a source of conflict in the implementation of FTAs, as well as in future negotiations.