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This article explores the postsecondary pathways of Montreal students of Haitian origin, a group whose drop-out rate is among the highest in Quebec and Canada. Drawing on critical race theory and adopting a critical interpretative epistemology, we analyze life stories collected from five undergraduate students to understand how race-based social relations have shaped their postsecondary pathways. Our findings, which largely align with the existing literature, reveal how racialized students experience a variety of microaggressions at school, college, and university. The interview data also show how students rely on different strategies—including role flexing, the creation of counterspaces, dodging, and fighting for change—to better navigate the system and ward off feelings of alienation. The article's conclusion calls on education system stakeholders to reflect on the role of the university and its relationship with Black communities, as well as its official and hidden curriculum.
Keywords: parcours universitaires, étudiants issus de l'immigration, théorie raciale critique, rapports sociaux de race, postsecondary pathways, students with immigrant backgrounds, critical race theory, race-based social relations
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Little is known about the experiences specific to young people who detransition (who choose to discontinue their gender transition). Granted, several recent studies have focused on the medical, social, and/or legal difficulties faced by youth during the transition process. However, few researchers have sought to highlight the specific challenges faced by youth who subsequently detransition. There is a pressing need for such knowledge, which could ensure better support for young people who follow this largely uncharted and still-emerging gender trajectory. Based on data collected as part of a research project on discourses related to detransition in youth, this article explores difficulties experienced during the transition process by young people who have detransitioned. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 such individuals, ages 16 to 25, from seven different countries. The analysis highlights both intrinsic and extrinsic difficulties, including many also experienced by trans and non-binary youth. The article concludes with a reflection on supporting gender-diverse youth.
Keywords: jeunes trans et non binaire, détransition, discontinuation, difficultés, intervention, trans and non-binary youth, detransition, discontinuation, difficulties, intervention
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Since the pandemic, an increasing number of employees have been working partially or fully remotely, or in person according to the wishes or guidelines set by their employers. This study explores (1) the links between the adoption of these "hybrid" modes of work (a significant change in work organization that has altered, among other things, locations, hours, and workload) and various forms of hostile behavior among staff, and (2) ways to prevent and counter the emergence of hostile behaviour in a hybrid work environment that is set to intensify.
Keywords: travail à distance, télétravail, incivilités, harcèlement, cyberharcèlement, bullying, cyberbullying, agression, Remote work, telecommuting, incivility, harassment, cyberharassment, bullying, cyberbullying, aggression
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Research framework : Few Quebec studies adopt an analytical angle capable of targeting the structural issues affecting the sphere of reproduction of immigrant women, particularly those from the Global South, who may be marked by specific issues. Objective : This article analyzes the reconstructions of the desire for children and the family plans of South Asian women who recently immigrated to Montreal, with a particular focus on the structural issues that shape them and the responses formulated by the women in this regard. Methodology : The study was based on ethnographic research conducted over 13 months in a Montreal neighborhood, where 39 biographical narratives focused on the perinatal period were documented, a corpus to which 8 case studies are added. Results : Women who have a professional project inherent in their migratory project draw their desires for children through identity strategies deployed in response to difficulties in integrating into the world of professional work. Asylum seekers, for their part, seem to deploy identity strategies when they play on fertility to cope with their life contexts, but may be constrained by migratory status. Finally, some sponsored women decide to suspend new pregnancies, partly because of the impoverishment of the female support network. Conclusion : Immigration projects, with the migratory statuses and post-migratory projections they imply, act as a form of governance on the negotiation of the relationship to reproduction of the women we meet, and structure the most intimate dimensions of identities. Contribution : Our article thus challenges the idea that immigration to the North is a potentially liberating experience for women from the South.
Keywords: désir d’enfant, projet familial, fécondité, politiques de la reproduction, stratégies identitaires, projet migratoire, immigration, périnatalité, femmes sud-asiatiques, longing for children, family project, fertility, reproductive politics, identity strategies, migration project, immigration, perinatality, South Asian women, deseos de hijos, proyecto familiar, fecundidad, antropología política de la reproducción, estrategias identitarias, proyecto migratorio, inmigración, perinatalidad, mujeres del sur de Asia
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In France, the anglicization of advertisements is increasingly marked. This phenomenon is examined here. This is done from a perspective that comes under the heading of the Critical Management Studies - whose epistemological and pragmatic aims of denaturalizing practices are retained. It is shown that what is commonly held as obvious is not, and what is considered inevitable is also not. Our research provides four contributions: i) it points to the existence of a largely unnoticed resistance on the part of marketing practitioners - a problem of socio-cultural acceptance of the anglicization of commercial communication; ii) it analyses the grammars of criticism, the moral conventions diversely mobilized in the contestation; iii) it elucidates the moral emotions that animate this contestation at the deepest level; iv) it completes these analyses by examining the moral imagination (metaphorical representations) that organize it.
Keywords: Communication commerciale, Critical Management Studies, anglicisation, résistances, sociologie pragmatique, Commercial communication, Critical Management Studies, anglicization, resistances, pragmatic sociology, Comunicación comercial, Estudios Críticos de Gestión, anglicización, resistencias, sociología pragmática
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This essay argues that books, broadly defined to include print and internet publications, played a crucial role in the cultural mainstreaming, including adoption by public schools, of non-Christian religious practices such as yoga and meditation. Promotional books, tactically and ironically, played on the textual bias of Christianity, and especially Protestantism, to re-brand practices borrowed from religious traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, as scientific techniques for exercise and stress-reduction, thereby reintegrating religion into public education. The essay begins with a brief history of religion in U.S. and Canadian public education, explains the textual bias of North American assumptions about religion, and analyzes how twentieth-century promoters of practice-centered religions tactically wielded books to increase public acceptance of non-Christian religious practices. The essay focuses on two twenty-first-century examples of religion-based, textually mediated public-school curricula: the Sonima Foundation's Health and Wellness program of Ashtanga yoga and The Hawn Foundation's MindUP program of mindfulness meditation.
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In Quebec, the concept of creativity encounters resistance in visual art education where it is shunned in favour of creation. In contrast, the concept makes a remarkable comeback in education when it is associated with digital technology or the creative practices that flourished during the pandemic. Moreover, originality and usefulness, terms often connected to creativity, are reconfigured in contemporary art practices or in youth's creative practices through remix or ephemeral interventions. Although youth rarely label their informal creativity as art or creation, in the art classroom they are expected to be creative and to produce artistic works. In these contexts, how can we reconcile creativity, art and creation in the art classroom? We investigate this question through an analysis of these concepts, the design of a secondary school visual arts project, and a reflection on the processes of divergence and of analog/digital convergence. This project is part of an action-based research led by the MULTINUMERIC team to develop pedagogical devices that call on the disciplinary, multimodal and digital skills of students. We highlight the interrelations between creative attitude, diversity of contexts, (im)materiality of the project, divergence of processes, and convergence of skills that occurred during the co-creation of a pedagogical device situated in the field of art education.
Keywords: créativité, processus de création, cocréation pédagogique, convergence analogique/numérique, multimodal, creativity, creative process, pedagogical co-creation, analog/digital convergence, multimodal
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This article summarizes interviews with the historians who worked on Assassins' Creed. The interviews focused on the following topics: video games and the relationship between consumption and science; mass industrial creation and production; criticism and dogma; reflective thinking and public use of history; education and social reproduction; fiction and truth; and history and literature. It turns out that, although the games does not feature an academic discourse, this video game deals with the works of the social world, and it influences players who, particularly, in high school, would benefit from developing their critical thinking by applying it to video games or any other screen-based text.
Keywords: didactique de l'histoire, enseignement de l'histoire au secondaire, matériel didactique, jeux vidéo d'histoire, historiens – entrevues, historiographie profane, methodology of social sciences, history instruction in middle school, historical video games, historians – interviews, everyman historiography