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This article presents and discusses some factors facilitating social participation in a small rural community for people volunteering their time. This involvement is particularly important for communities located in a socially and economically devitalized region. The qualitative results present the thematic analysis of 12 interviews conducted in a rural community located in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec. The analysis identified six contextual elements facilitating participation: 1) the need to revitalize the community, 2) the presence of municipal support, 3) the dynamism related to the presence of newcomers, 4) a climate of trust, reciprocity and mutual support, 5) the use of social networks, and 6) a desire for collective autonomy. Based on these results, we discuss the importance of supporting social participation for the socio-economic development of rural communities and the reduction of social inequalities.
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Creativity stimulates innovation (Wolfe, 2007); it thus plays an important role in economic development in a digital age. The arts and culture community, master of creative practice, is a key component in entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs). In a context where the digital transition of communities depends on sectoral transversality (Caron et al., 2020), we are analyzing the contributions of the arts and culture community in the development of EEs. Through a case study based on the evolution of a creative hub project, we will specify the dynamics at work in the intersectoral structuring of EEs. In doing so, we will focus our attention on notions of open innovation, creativity and co-development in the digital era.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial ecosystem, Écosystème entrepreneurial, arts, arts, culture, culture, digital transition, transition numérique
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The Display of Negative Emotions scale and The Social Consequences Of Negative Emotions scale are two understudied questionnaires that assess parents’ emotion beliefs about their children’s expression of negative emotions. Therefore, the aims of this study were to ascertain the factorial structure of both questionnaires, to reexamine the internal consistency of each instrument’s scales, and to assess the age- and gender-related discriminant validity of the measures. The two questionnaires were administered by a web-based survey to a sample of 253 Portuguese mothers with children of elementary school age (6–12 years). A two-factor solution (expression of submissive emotions, expression of dominant emotions) was preferred for the first questionnaire, and a single-factor solution emerged for the second questionnaire. Both measures revealed good internal consistency, but while the former was able to identify gender differences, the latter discriminated between age groups. The simultaneous use of these questionnaires is recommended for an informative assessment of parents’ beliefs about their children’s expression of negative emotions.
Keywords: emotion beliefs, parents, children, emotional expression, questionnaires
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Higher education recently found itself in the unprecedented situation of being forced to rapidly switch to online education as a demand of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this article is to compare and contrast the experiences of university tutors who teach in two distance education universities with those who teach in a traditional university concerning their online lessons during lockdown. Forty university tutors participated in a survey to capture their teaching experiences. The survey was based on the transactional distance theory. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from both groups. Analysis of the quantitative data indicates no significant differences between the two groups in scores regarding course structure flexibility and the degree of student autonomy; however, significant difference with a high effect size was found regarding instructional dialogue, in favor of the distance tutors’ group. Thematically analyzing the qualitative data allowed the researchers to group the data into three main themes focused on how the instructional dialogue was manifested in the classes of both groups: (a) the learning design approach adopted, (b) the tutor-led interaction for student support, and (b) learner-to-learner communication and the sense of an online community. Ensuing recommendations involve adopting social-constructivist approaches that can sustain high-quality instructional dialogue in online learning settings and creating distance education faculty development programs in traditional universities that will help tutors support dialogical forms of online pedagogy.
Keywords: distance education, higher education, emergency remote teaching, transactional distance theory, university tutors' perceptions
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How can social work courses prepare students to be scholars of social movements, and also to act in solidarity with movements for social justice? How can graduate programs reimagine the professional socialization of social work students from aspiring for expertise toward a stance of life-long learning? How can instructors more deeply leverage our teaching practice to advance justice in our communities? This paper traces one attempt to answer these questions through a three-quarter graduate social work course designed to deepen students’ skills and knowledge in practices for social transformation, while amplifying existing social justice movements. Drawing on reflections from the instructor and five students, course artifacts, and insights from other students and community partners, this case study offers a model of community-engaged teaching that centers solidarity, reciprocity, and justice.
Keywords: social work education, community-engaged learning, social justice, community practice
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The aim of our study was to provide an overview of the reading practices of Senegalese pupils. It was based on a questionnaire survey of 216 pupils. It concluded that pupils do read ! Obviously, this practice is “imposed” by the school environment, but it is also guided by personal desire and for leisure. They read on average between 4 and 6 hours a week. They most often read novels, comic books and magazines. They read above all to keep themselves occupied, but also to escape, to dream, to inform and to educate themselves. The family environment plays an important role in the development of a taste for reading among adolescents. Indeed, pupils who perceive themselves as great readers are those whose parents read a lot and who have a relatively large number of books at home. In general, the parents have a post-secondary education and belong to a privileged social category. While the role of the school library in students' reading practice was somewhat highlighted, the role of the librarian was not clearly established.
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The violence, scale, and power of anti-Muslim narratives circulated on the internet and elsewhere continue to have considerable impact on feminist anti-violence initiatives. I examine contemporary responses to “honour killings” with particular reference to the Palestinian, Indian, and North American contexts, reflecting on how anti-violence advocates negotiate the terrain of culture in the case of honour killings. I ask whether the focus on culture has an impact on how courts and society view violence committed by Muslim men (and sometimes women) against Muslim women and girls. I suggest that cultural details contribute little to an enhanced legal understanding of the crime simply because this is not their primary purpose. Instead, the cultural details are part of a pedagogy that conveys a message of the racial and cultural superiority of the dominant society and a corresponding inferiority of Muslim cultures. We should therefore always talk culture with the greatest of restraint lest the racism that accompanies culture talk inhibit our understanding of the violence and limit our capacity to respond to it.
Keywords: honour killings, anti-violence initiatives, race, culture