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The question of experience is central to understanding how public problems emerge, drive new policies, lead to the transformation of lived environments, and in turn shape life stories. It is here resituated in relation to the history of the progressive movement in the United States, the birth of sociological inquiry and the pragmatist philosophy of democracy at the beginning of the 20th century (represented here by John Dewey, but also George H. Mead, Jane Addams, Mary P. Follett and Robert E. Park). But what does experience mean ? The objective is here to reactivate pragmatist categories and hypotheses to describe the troubles, disruptions, or disturbances of experience, their conversion into problematic situations, the role of emotion and evaluation in focusing and channeling public attention, and its reorientation through processes of attribution of causes and imputation of responsibilities. Through the lens of a pragmatist ecology of public experience, this paper emphasizes the central role of inquiry and experimentation, in all their aesthetic dimensions, in the formation of public problems.
Keywords: Pragmatisme, expérience, problèmes publics, écologie, John Dewey, pragmatism, experience, public problems, ecology, John Dewey, pragmatismo, experiencia, problemas públicos, ecología, John Dewey
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Introduction: William Osler started the first journal club more than a century ago. As in Osler’s, continuing professional development (CPD) is challenging to deliver in our day. This paper discusses the CPD outcomes of Reading of the Week (ROTW), an innovative online education resource aimed at Canadian psychiatrists and psychiatry residents. Methods: ROTW consists of a weekly email sent to these physicians through formal partnerships, including 13 residency training programs, and summarizes the latest literature in psychiatric care. An online survey using Moore’s continued medical education evaluation framework was conducted to determine the outcomes of ROTW and how to improve it. Results: One-third of ROTW subscribers (n = 332) responded to the survey. Respondents reported a very high rate of satisfaction (97%). The most significant findings: ROTW improved participants’ understanding of psychiatry (93%) and informed their practice (83%). Conclusions: ROTW is a program that addresses challenges related to remaining “up-to-date” amidst the vast amount of resources available. Survey data suggests that ROTW has a high satisfaction rate and achieves practice change, perhaps because it provides a boundless learning option for trainees and providers. Further research is needed better to understand the reasons for the success of this program.
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This essay adopts a critical perspective of the idea of humanizing refugee research. It argues that much social scientific research is intrinsically dehumanizing, as it simplifies and reduces human experience to categories and models that are amenable to analysis. Attempts to humanize research may productively challenge and unsettle powerful and dominant hegemonic structures that frame policy and research on forced migration. However, it may replace them with new research frameworks, now imbued authority as representing more authentic or real-life experiences. Rather than claiming the moral high ground of humanizing research, the more limited, and perhaps more honest, ambition should be to recognize the inevitable dehumanization embedded in refugee research and seek to dehumanize differently.
Keywords: refugee research, humanizing research, dehumanization, policy, categorization
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