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For the past 30 years, the archaeology department of the Avataq Cultural Institute has been organizing archaeological field schools in keeping with an educational mandate entrusted to the Institute by the elders of Nunavik. Over time, the purpose of the schools has changed, and the fieldwork experience has become a tool to encourage young people to pursue their education. New educational activities have been gradually added to improve youth engagement and success. With the project Sivunitsatinnut ilinniapunga (“For our future, I'm going to school”), we have attempted to go even further. This paper presents the stages of this project and analyzes its impact by looking at this experience from the perspective of the evolution of field schools in Nunavik. We discuss how we can assess the results of this initiative and improve its impact for young people with a view to developing Inuit archaeology and Northern education.

In 2008 two Dutch museums and two Greenland museums started a cooperative venture to share the photo collections of museums in the Netherlands. The photographs were taken from 1965 to 1986 by husband and wife Gerti and Noortje Nooter in Diilerilaaq, a village in the Sermilik Fjord (East Greenland). Gerti Nooter, then curator at the Museon in The Hague and at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, was doing fieldwork in that changing hunting community and, as part of that research, took photographs and collected museum objects for both Dutch museums. The National Museum of Ethnology in particular has long had a working relationship with Greenland museums and the local Tunumiit community. Through the visual repatriation project Roots2Share, these photographs have been scanned and returned to the communities where they originated and where they can now be accessed locally. As a product of cross-cultural interactions, they depict ancestors of present-day Tunumiit and carry multiple meanings: ethnological or exotic ones for a Dutch public and historical or ancestral ones for the people of Diilerilaaq. Many stories have been told about them. This article explores the relationship between the photographs and Tunumiit knowledge, as well as issues of cultural heritage, ownership, and sharing of these images.

The multiple definitions of a social problem depend on various theoretical perspectives, schools of thought, social historical and political contexts, groups of interest and presence of diverse actors, etc. To the extent that a problem is recognized as a social one, it is after it passed through various stages: number of citizens touched by the problem, social ties proximity or distance to the social mainstream in relation to the problem, institutionalization process, modalities of social reactions, etc. We will attempt to demonstrate certain links between social conditions and gambling abuse as a potential social problem. In a second phase, a psychosocial perspective will illustrate the addiction phenomenon and the central importance of distinguishing between use and abuse in the addiction cycle construction. Finally, a conclusion will focus on future perspective and questioning the gambling phenomenon as a social problem.

Keywords: Problème social, dépendance, jeux de hasard et d'argent, individualisme, contrôle social, Social problem, addiction, gambling, hyper individualism, social control

The pandemic context is reconfiguring the boundaries of the act of teaching and learning, leading teachers and learners to build adapted forms. The notion of device (in the sense of “dispositif”), as it is usually mobilized, no longer seems to reflect the reality of practices. It must be reinterrogated to go beyond what is prescribed by the educational institution, considering the hybridization of social spaces-time and digital devices, which favors the emergence of the learner's personal environment of proximity learning (EPAP). This EPAP mobilizes formal and non-formal dimensions through which the learner organizes his or her activities taking into account his or her capacities and constraints.

Keywords: Formation en ligne, environnement, proximité, apprenant, EPAP (environnement personnel d'apprentissage de proximité), E-training, environment, proximity, learner, EPAP (personal proximity learning environment)

On the 20th anniversary of the Université féministe d'été (UFÉ), the author, as cofounder and first director (2003-2013) of this annual event, recalls the context and challenges of its birth and first decade. She then emphasizes the decisive role played by the Université Laval's Groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire féministe (GREMF), highlighting the history and realizations of the two other main components of GREMF's legacy since the 1980's. These are the international journal Recherches féministes and the Chaire Claire-Bonenfant – Femmes, savoirs et sociétés. The author ends her testimony with some thoughts on the institutionalisation of feminist studies.

Keywords: études féministes, femmes et université, interdisciplinarité, Québec, témoignage

Keywords: éducation musicale, littératies, déficience intellectuelle, apprentissage informel, éducation à distance

Canadian academic libraries are unionized environments, requiring collective organization and action to address labour conditions and contract negotiations. The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) has 1264 members, including 52 archivists and librarians, and in 2021 resolved the longest strike in association history. The newly ratified agreement contained major gains to advance pay equity within the union, and the strike itself maintained UMFA historic high levels of participation and member engagement, in part due to the significant contributions of librarians and archivists. In this paper, three librarians who held distinct positions of leadership within UMFA, particularly during its 2021 strike, examine the unique strengths and difficulties of librarians and archivists working within a broader faculty union to make change. Relying on core competencies of librarianship, such as collaboration, consultation, communication, and leadership, the authors collectively and successfully filled central roles in the strategic direction, organizational foundation, and on-the-ground mobilization of the strike effort. The historical context for the labour climate and organizing history at the University of Manitoba is examined and demonstrates that core competencies of librarians and archivists are valuable and imperative skills in faculty union organizing. Librarians and archivists can use this narrative to inform the development of their own activism within their unions and workplaces, and to examine how their own skills may help enhance and improve their working conditions.

Keywords: leadership des archivistes, archivist leadership, leadership des bibliothécaires, faculty union, leadership syndical, librarian leadership, syndicats, union leadership, syndicat des professeurs, unions

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.

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