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Objective – The aim of this study was to examine the practice of infopreneurship by librarians in public university libraries in South-South Nigeria. The study specifically intended to identify purposes of engaging in infopreneurship, methods of running infopreneurship, forms of infopreneurship practiced, benefits derived from practicing infopreneurship, and challenges encountered in practicing infopreneurship by the librarians.Methods – The population of the study comprised all 175 librarians in 13 public university libraries in South-South Nigeria, which were purposively chosen for the study. The study employed convenience sampling to engage 102 librarians in the university libraries, who were involved in one form of infopreneurship or another. The librarians were identified through preliminary investigation, observation, and interaction with the librarians by the researchers. The instrument for data collection was a self-designed online questionnaire titled, “Librarians’ Infopreneurship Practice Questionnaire (LIPQ).” The instrument was validated by two experts in the Department of Library and Information Science in Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Reliability test was not conducted on the instrument, based on the knowledge that a valid test tends to be reliable. The researchers distributed 128 digital copies of the draft of the validated questionnaire to the librarians through personal WhatsApp accounts of the librarians, WhatsApp groups of the various university libraries and WhatsApp groups of the different state chapters of the Nigerian Library Association to which the librarians belonged. Out of the 128 questionnaires administered, 102 were properly completed by the librarians and returned, producing a response rate of 97.69%. The data collected were analyzed using weighted mean and standard deviation.Results – The results from data analysis revealed that the librarians’ purposes of engaging in infopreneurship were to earn extra income, provide for post-retirement, meet unforeseen demands, and develop themselves. The librarians’ methods of running infopreneurship were leveraging, customizing, facilitating access to, and providing instant delivery of information. They used the following forms of infopreneurship: information brokerage, reprographic services, research-aid services, book vending and internet services. Finally, challenges faced by the librarians in practicing infopreneurship were lack of adequate finance, business infrastructure, technical skill, and high rate of presence of non-professional infopreneurs.Conclusion – The findings in this study demonstrate that librarians under study practice infopreneurship primarily for purposes of making money and self-sustenance. They achieve this by leveraging, customizing, facilitating access to and providing quick delivery of information. With these methods, the librarians engage in information brokerage, reprographic services, internet services, research-aid services and book vending. In return, these information professionals enjoy additional income, financial independence, accumulated knowledge, and enhanced sense of fulfillment. However, the practice of infopreneurship by the librarians is hindered by shortage of sufficient funds, technical know-how, business facilities and high rate of presence of unprofessional infopreneurs in the business.
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Objective – This project assessed African American students’ feelings of comfort and belonging about engaging with library resources and services at a public regional comprehensive university in the midwestern United States.Methods – This study used an explanatory sequential design. First, we surveyed degree-seeking African American undergraduates on their perceived welcomeness regarding the library’s collections and spaces, staff and users, and atmosphere and marketing. We then recruited focus group participants from the survey, and in focus group sessions, participants expanded on feedback provided in the survey, with particular emphasis on their feelings about their interactions and experiences with the library.Results – Most students who participated indicated the library is a place where they felt safe and welcomed, although the library felt to some like a neutral space rather than a place that actively supported them. Focus group participants shared several easily implementable suggestions for making the library a more attractive campus space for African American students.Conclusion – Student recommendations will shape the services we provide for an increasingly diverse student body. Changes to make the library as physical place more welcoming include exhibiting student artwork and featuring African American themes in displays. The library as a social space can become more welcoming in several ways. Hiring a diverse staff and providing staff training on diversity and equity topics, offering engaging student opportunities for congregation in the library, and collaborating with African American student organizations will help to foster a sense of belonging among these students. Facilitating opportunities for connection will contribute to African American undergraduates’ academic success.
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Scientists working for oil companies in the Athabasca region are developing methods by which to reclaim muskeg (boreal peatlands) on land disturbed by oil sands extraction. The Alberta government requires companies to reclaim disturbed land by achieving equivalent capability of the landscape to support an end land use. Indigenous community members instead define reclamation as establishing not only quantifiable ecological functions, but also relationships to their traditional territories. Tensions emerge as Indigenous concerns are often subsumed within bureaucratic discourses that favour scientific classification and quantification of land uses in reclaimed areas. Divergent responses to muskeg in reclamation activities are informed in part by these competing emphases on quantifiable landscapes as opposed to those that are relational and growing. This article traces this multiplicity through the examination of government and scientific literature and ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous communities in northern Alberta. Muskeg is used as an analytical tool to explore competing conceptions of land reclamation. Mistranslation of polysemantic terms like muskeg occur on an ontological level, and settler colonial relations and power imbalances between competing languages and knowledge systems proliferate in reclamation activities.
Keywords: Athabasca oil sands, reclamation, wetlands, Indigenous Peoples, settler colonialism, ways of knowing, sables bitumineux de l'Athabasca, remise en état, tourbières, peuples autochtones, colonialisme de peuplement, modes de savoir
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The need to establish real collaboration between teachers and remedial teachers is highlighted by several studies and ministerial documents. Despite the potential benefits of this collaboration, several obstacles hinder the implementation of these collaborative practices. This multi-case study, carried out as part of doctoral studies, aims to document the collaboration between teachers and remedial teachers in the context of the implementation of the RtI model in elementary school. To do this, three dyads, each composed of a teacher and a remedial teacher, were studied in depth based on interviews, direct observation, documentary analysis and a logbook. The results highlight favorable conditions for the establishment of a real collaboration between teachers and remedial teachers, as well as the presence of a parity imbalance within certain dyads. These results reiterate the importance of further research on collaboration between teachers and remedial teachers to further guide practitioners, managers and university trainers.
Keywords: modèle de réponse à l’intervention (RàI), Response to intervention model (RtI), orthopédagogue, general educator, special educator, enseignant, special education teacher, collaboration, coenseignement, collaboration, difficultés d’apprentissage, co-teaching, learning disabilities
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This article focuses on the use of Photographic Participatory Inquiry (PPI) in researching the teaching and learning of photography in the e-learning environment. It is an arts-informed method drawing on digital tools to capture collective information as digital artefacts, which can then be accessed and harnessed to build critical and reflective photographic practices. The multimedia tools employed (for example GoPro video and screen capture) are critically discussed for their potential to contribute understanding of photographic artistic practice and the learning of a digital generation. The article may also provide critical insights and inform more nuanced methods for research and scholarship when wishing to investigate the personalized, participatory, and productive pedagogies of a networked learning society.
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Functional behavior assessment and the selection of function-based interventions are best practices in the treatment of challenging behavior. However, few studies have examined the skills of psychoeducators in functional behavior assessment. In this study, 54 psychoeducators analyzed ABC narrative recording and Open-Ended Functional Assessment Interview (OEFAI) transcripts to identify the function of challenging behavior in four children with autism spectrum disorders. Psychoeducators produced more accurate functions when using the OEFAI for the behavior of three children and when using the ABC recording for the behavior of one child. When we compared the conclusions of the psychoeducators with those produced by behavior analysts, four of seven comparisons indicated that behavior analysts were more accurate whereas the other three were non differentiated. Altogether, the results underline the importance of refining training in functional behavior assessment for psychoeducators.
Keywords: Analyse descriptive, analyse fonctionnelle, évaluation fonctionnelle, évaluation indirecte, psychoéducateur, validité convergente, Descriptive analysis, functional analysis, functional assessment, indirect assessment, concurrent validity, psychoeducator
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This article examines the experience of activism by individuals who use personal testimonials delivered in a public forum to advocate for the social inclusion of their sexual and gender communities. We describe the experience of activists from three social groups who are the target of stigma and discrimination due to their sexual identity, sexual practices, gender expression or the development of their bodies: people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or intersex (LGBTQI), people living with HIV and people with sex work experience – and their intersections. A political, sensitive and intersectional conception of community is put forward in order to capture the transversal aspects of this militancy while highlighting the singularities of the multiple perspectives that compose it. We conclude by noting similarities between such community testimonials and twentieth century feminist interventions and the epistemic and mobilization challenges they raise.
Keywords: témoignage public, militantisme, LGBTQI, VIH/SIDA, travail du sexe, communauté, intervention féministe, public testimonial, activism, LGBTQI, HIV/AIDS, sex work, community, feminist intervention
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This study aimed to explore the barriers and facilitators in accessing services for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder from the perspective of parents and service providers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight Francophone parents and eight Francophone service providers living in New Brunswick. A thematic analysis of participants' stories was conducted to identify barriers and facilitators in accessing services during three key moments in the family journeys, namely first concerns, diagnosis, and school entry, as these moments reflect periods of transition in services for families.
Keywords: Trouble du spectre de l'autisme, services en santé mentale, enfants et adolescents, ACCESS-MH, Autism Spectrum Disorder, mental health services, children and adolescents, ACCESS-MH
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The automotive industry has long been a leader in the introduction of new forms of work organization and technology—including mass production and high performance work systems (HPWS). It has also been a focal point for how trade unions negotiate such systems. Recently, much attention has focused on Industry 4.0 (I 4.0)—a manufacturing system featuring advanced robotics, digitalization and artificial intelligence. However, in the automotive industry, I 4.0 is confronted with considerable technical and social challenges, and I 4.0 paradigms have been criticized for marginalizing the continuing importance of employees in shaping, if not ‘hybridizing,' such new production processes.Based on a study of UNIFOR union locals in Canadian automotive assembly plants, we argue that I 4.0 has to be analyzed in terms of the ways unions have influenced the almost universal adoption of HPWS in that sector. We thus investigate the ways unions have impacted HPWS and its implications for their roles in workplace integration of I 4.0. As such, we first argue that, while overlapping, HPWS and I 4.0 represent different managerial strategies. Second, we develop an exploratory analytical framework for use in examining union roles in negotiating HPWS and technology adoption.Based on this framework, we then analyze 18 interviews we conducted in 2017-2018 with plant managers and key UNIFOR representatives at five southern Ontario assembly plants. The interviews illustrate not only commonalities in adoption of HPWS, but also differing ways in which the union influences the ‘hybridization' of HPWS. Union practices differ significantly from one plant to another as a function of three variables: 1- firm-plant competitive positions; 2- the union's overall monopoly face; and 3- internal union local solidarity and narratives around HPWS. Keeping these commonalities and differences in mind, we then consider the challenges that unions are likely to confront as they begin negotiating I 4.0.
Keywords: automotive industry, trade unions, high performance work systems, industry 4.0, industrie automobile, syndicats, modèle de gestion à haute performance (MGHP ou HPWS), industrie 4.0
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This article attempts a glance into the evolution of the Acadian essay while defining new discursive paradigms for Acadian essayists in the 21st century. The Acadian essay first carried out the political outlook for an envisaged nation-state before a postmodern reading of acadianity fragmented the discourse into a plurality of voices and positionings. The traditional medias remain an important channel for the Acadian essayists, but new platforms and spaces in the digital age created a much vaster ideological and discursive scheme. Meanwhile, the Acadian essay of the 21st century is sustained by a growing number of female writers and marginalized voices. In addition, literary matriarch Antonine Maillet recently turned to the essay to review six decades of Acadian modernity through her own life work and personal stance. What remains to be delivered is a comprehensive analysis of the new configurations of the Acadian essay within the prism of contemporary social discourse.
Keywords: Essayisme, essayistique, Acadie, discours social, culture contemporaine acadienne, Essay, essayistic, Acadie, social discourse, contemporary Acadian culture