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Based on a conceptualization of heteroactivism as a transnational phenomenon manifesting in local contexts to spread and express resistance to gender and sexual rights, this article aims to illuminate new dimensions of heteroactivism beyond a sole focus on gender and sexuality by bringing its specificities in the Swedish context to the fore. Drawing on digital ethnography with members of the neo-conservative, far-right thinktank Oikos and the ethnonationalist political party the Sweden Democrats (SD), the article shows how heteroactivist forms of resistance seek to reshape the state and the nation through the gender–sexuality nexus and how these resistances enter into negotiation with spatiohistorically established notions of gender equality and sexual rights. Through a multiscalar transnational approach, the article brings forth how heteroactivism connects several levels horizontally—from the local to the national and the transnational—and vertically and establishes linkages among gender, sexuality, the state and the nation. The analysis reveals how care, love and gratitude for the shared home are core elements used in heteroactivist negotiations, with contextually established notions of gender equality and sexual rights as national values. It also demonstrates how the home, which these actors seek to cherish and protect, takes shape as an exclusive and exclusionary space.
Keywords: Heteroactivism, gender, sexuality, rights, Sweden
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Fake news, while problematic in its own way, is not an anomaly and though intimately connected to the Trump administration, did not begin, nor end, with his administration. Fake news is part of a larger environment of racism in the structure of the news, where stories of People of Color are often skewed in a negative way, positive contributions from People of Color are ignored, and where journalists of color may be sidelined. However, there is a dearth of news literacy curricula that centralizes the stories of People of Color. This is particularly problematic given the ways in which news perpetuates racism. This study utilizes critical media literacy coupled with critical race theory to develop culturally responsive news literacy curricula that centralizes stories about bodies of color as a way to make more comprehensive sense of our news and information media.
Keywords: Critical media literacy, Critical news literacy, Critical race theory, Culturally relevant pedagogy, Media literacy, White supremacy
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Critical Pedagogy (CP) has been carried out in many contexts, and reports of its success in language teaching in various countries have increasingly appeared (Bennet 2018; West 2014). However, South Korea (henceforth Korea) is not well-known for critical inquiry in language education, especially in private language institutions, so-called hagwǒn. The Korean language education system still widely accepts the grammar-translation methodology and problem-solving techniques to prepare students for standardized tests, even though this system is considered a form of oppression by English learners (J. Park 2011). This might be thought as particularly the case in neoliberal spaces — not ideal for CP. Nevertheless, this study explores the possibility of adopting a CP framework in one such space, a Korean private language school. I investigate participants’ awareness of a Korean labor issue, their metaphorical language use for indicating power relations, and their recognition of the relationship between English and power. Through analyzing the participants’ critical dialogue using the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, I conclude that students’ engagement with critical dialogue, an essential component of CP, is feasible. Thus, CP is applicable even in a neoliberal space such as a hagwǒn.
Keywords: Critical Pedagogy, hagwon, Critical Dialogue, Metaphor, Power Dynamics
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The author proposes in this article a series of reflections concerning some of the challenges and difficulties with which facilitators have faced in interventions of community participation with teenagers. Among her reflections she includes an initial discussion of the conceptual complexity of these projects, continuing with an analysis of qualitative character of the theoretical and methodological base that proposes the community psychology and its relation with concrete experiences of intervention by means of interviews with facilitators of community projects who seek to promote the participation of the teenagers, framed in Spain, as well as for literature review and proper experiences in this type of projects. In this line, they put into light different challenges and difficulties, which relate to political, social, methodological and technical elements, among others, as well as the ways of proceeding, highlighting the relevancy of place-based interventions and the need to consider the multiple variables that coexist, as well as the complexity of the process in general.
Keywords: Community participation, Participation communautaire, Participación comunitaria, Teenagers, Adolescentes, Adolescentes, Challenges, Défis, Retos, Facilitateurs, Facilitators, Facilitadores
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Objective – This project identifies the factors that contribute to the success of librarians as active researchers. Research success is generally aligned with productivity and output, and the authors are therefore interested in understanding the factors that encourage research productivity. This fills a gap in the literature on librarians as researchers, which has tended to focus on barriers rather than enablers. Methods – For this quantitative study, we distributed an online survey to 1,653 potential participants across Canada and received 453 usable responses for a 27% response rate. The survey asked participants to report their research outputs and to answer questions that addressed three categories of factors: Individual Attributes, Peers and Community, and Institutional Structures and Supports. We then statistically analyzed participant responses in order to identify relationships between the research output variables (weighted output score and number of peer-reviewed articles) and the three categories, the factors within those categories, and the constituent components. Results – Participants’ research output consisted largely of presentations, non-peer-reviewed articles, peer-reviewed articles, and posters. All three categories of factors were significantly related to research output, both for a calculated weighted output score and for number of peer-reviewed articles. All of the factors identified within those categories were also significant when tested against weighted output score, but Intrinsic Motivations was not a significant factor when tested against number of peer-reviewed articles. Several components of factors were also not significant for number of peer-reviewed articles. Age was the only significant component of Demographics. Three components of Education and Experience were significant: whether participants had received research training after completing their MLIS, whether they were working on an advanced degree, and the institution where they had obtained their MLIS. Conclusions – Research productivity is significantly impacted by all three categories: Individual Attributes, Peers and Community, and Institutional Structures and Supports. Fostering an environment that focuses on all of these areas will be most likely to promote research output for librarians. At the same time, this study’s findings point to particular aspects that warrant further investigation, such as the nature and effect of institutional support and librarians’ motivations for doing research.
Keywords: academic librarians, research, research productivity
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Teaching during the 2020–2021 school year was fraught with challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the United States, teacher experiences varied greatly. Teacher attrition has been a concern for years, and contemporary media outlets reported that this was exacerbated by the pandemic. The authors surveyed teachers nationally between January and February 2021 (n = 334) to uncover what factors were related to teachers’ reported intention to remain in the classroom after the 2020– 2021 school year. Logistic regression findings indicate that teachers approaching retirement age and those teaching in private schools were significantly less likely to report an intention to remain at their school while elementary school teachers were more likely to stay. Conversely, we found that teacher autonomy, job satisfaction, and student access to resources outside of school were all positively associated with an intention to remain in their current position.
Keywords: COVID-19, COVID-19, fidélisation des enseignants, teacher retention, attrition des enseignants, teacher attrition, teacher autonomy, autonomie des enseignants, job satisfaction, satisfaction au travail, retirement age, âge de la retraite
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Law enforcement is a profession where individuals are faced with serious and complex situations. More importantly, they play a pivotal role in our modern society; they provide public safety and act as frontline during crisis (Leclercq, 2008; Shane, 2010). The arrival of new technologies, negative press brought forward through a near infinite number of media outlet and their wide accessibility causes issues that can easily affect the psychological health of a police officer. In recent years, law enforcement has been regularly breaking headlines, often in a negative way. Ergo, does the coverage of these events affect the psychological health at work of the police officers concerned? The study by Chermak and al. (2006) upholds that the media are often the central source of citizens' perception of police legitimacy. In light of these findings, the present study is intended to understand the relationship between media communications of police events and their psychological health. This study intends to use the theoretical model of Gilbert, Dagenais-Desmarais and Savoie (2011) to explain psychological health at work. Media communications will be discussed according to the general model of the reciprocal effects of media coverage by Kepplinger (2007). Considering the above, and since this is a qualitative study, network sampling was used to select the participants; twelve (12) police officers have accepted to participate in this study on a voluntary basis via a semi-structured interview. This res earch allowed to recognize the influence of media communications on the psychological health and well-being of law enforcement officers at work (such as loss of commitment in the workplace and at home, questioning one’s abilities, excessive use of psychoactive drugs, mistrust, depressive state and loss of integrity) as well as on social media and in citizen opinion about them in general.
Keywords: Policier, santé psychologique au travail, communication médiatique, bien-être au travail, détresse au travail, presse négative
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The emergence of digital or online platforms has fundamentally changed the nature of work, the ways by which businesses operate, and the organization of productive activities. This shift has given rise to the “sharing economy.” Over the last years, we have witnessed the emergence of large online platforms including Uber, Airbnb, and Foodora. These examples are the most well known, although other digital service platforms, such as Adèle sur demande, are emerging and operating in Quebec. What do we know about the number of these platforms and their contributors? Do these online services all create the same type of work? Are the positive or negative aspects of this work shared by all workers operating within a given platform? From these questions, this paper proposes a reflective description and a discussion of the challenges related to work in the context of the emerging “sharing economy.” First, we examine the object of our research, the online platforms, as a new actor in the modern economy. Second, we expose the difficulties in appraising these new forms of work and the difficulties in establishing limits of analysis for evaluating work performed within these online platforms. Third, based on the current state of knowledge related to this subject, we propose some lines of thought to underscore the need for interdisciplinary research on this emerging phenomenon.
Keywords: économie collaborative, plateformes numériques, transformation du travail, statuts d’emploi, flexibilité, microentrepreneuriat
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Objective – This paper analyzes the design process for a toolkit for appraising emerging and established bibliographic reference generators and managers for a particular student population. Others looking to adapt or draw from the toolkit to meet the needs of users at their own institutions will benefit from this exploration of how one team developed and streamlined the process of assessment. Methods – The authors implemented an extensive initial evaluation using a checklist and comprehensive rubric to review and select reference tools. This work was guided by a matrix of categories from Marino (2012), Bates (2015), and other literature. As the tools were assessed using the toolkit, the components of the toolkit were evaluated and revised. Toolkit revisions were based on evaluators’ feedback and lessons learned during the testing process. Results – Fifty-three tools were screened using a checklist that reviewed features, including cost and referencing styles. Eighteen tools were thoroughly evaluated using the comprehensive rubric by multiple researchers to minimize bias. From this secondary testing, tools were recommended for use within this environment. Ultimately the process of creating an assessment toolkit allowed the researchers to develop a streamlined process for further testing. The toolkit includes a checklist to reduce the list of potential tools, a rubric for features, a rubric to evaluate qualitative criteria, and an instrument for scoring. Conclusion – User needs and the campus environment are critical considerations for the selection of reference tools. For this project, researchers developed a comprehensive rubric and testing procedure to ensure consistency and validity of data. The streamlined process in turn enabled library staff to provide evidence based recommendations for the most suitable manager or generator to meet the needs of individual programs.
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Fundamental issues related to the knowledge of the nature of life, to the scientific and ethical limits of the human body's possibilities, but also to the limits between living beings and machines, humans and animals, are today in the center of important interdisciplinary debates.The purpose of this article is to investigate the unimagined potential of life that emerges with improvements in biotechnology by highlighting the aesthetics of the « recreated » and « reconstructed » bionic meta-body. I chose as a starting point a particular set of artworks that use biotechnology as their medium and field of inquiry.I present five « ideal-type » categories of aesthetic representations of bioart in ordrer to understand these artistic fictions in the actual biotechnological context. These five « tables of thought » are not absolute : translucent body, prostheses to the body (symbiosis of man and machine), trans-specific hybridities (encounters with the absolutely Other), culture of the « semi-living » (new skins and « bio-facts »), desire for ubiquity.
Keywords: biotechnologies, post-humain, hybridations, esthétiques du corps, bioart, biotechnology, posthuman, hybridizations, aesthetics of the body, bioart, biotecnologías, post-humano, hibridación, estéticas del cuerpo, bio-arte