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The COVID-19 pandemic took everyone by surprise, whether it was the job market or other areas, the impacts were decisive for everyone. However, in this research, we observe that not only did teleworking as an organizational change experience a rapid advancement, but also, the positive impacts were felt really and concretely in people's professional and personal lives. The literature already offers a range of articles demonstrating the issues, advantages, and history of this work concept, but none studies the human worker in this context. The central topic aims to place the achievement of teleworkers at the heart of the key elements of this organizational change in order to measure the favorable or unfavorable impacts towards it. Thus, the analysis of the results aims to demonstrate through several aspects such as remuneration, job performance, professional ambitions of teleworkers, work-family-personal life balance, self-realization, sense of belonging, career advancement, and daily motivation, if the population in Quebec considers teleworking as an accelerator to their personal and professional fulfillment. The results demonstrate that there is a strong link between this unforeseen and forced organizational change. People express great satisfaction in including this new mode of work in their daily lives and wish to be able to maintain it in the near future.

Keywords: Télétravail, COVID-19, télétravailleur, changement organisationnel, accomplissement

This paper focuses on the experiences of Indigenous learners at Athabasca University. Having access to online education provided a sense of normalcy for students during the global pandemic while many post-secondary institutions and Indigenous communities were closed. The purpose of the research was two-fold: a) to determine the dynamics of reaching Indigenous learners and measuring their adaptability in learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, and b) to understand the effects of the pandemic on the mind, body, spirit, and social environment of Indigenous distance education learners and their families. This research included qualitative and quantitative methods, specifically, a survey, focus group, and individual interviews. We share the results of online research involving Indigenous students during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. We concluded that listening to Indigenous students supported their online education while giving them an outlet to express their experiences. This research identified Indigenous student adaptations towards their spirituality in specific ways inherent to their culture given the reactions to COVID-19, their responses, and reflections.

Keywords: COVID-19, Indigenous students, Canada, online education, society, culture, health, well-being

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the closure of schools, prompting 93% of U.S. households with children to transition to remote schooling. This study investigates coping mechanisms used by parents and the emotional impact of remote schooling on their well-being. A cross-sectional online survey, grounded in the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, was conducted among 133 U.S. parents with children engaged in remote schooling from May to October 2020. Pearson correlations and paired sample t-tests were calculated. Multiple regression was performed to determine how well stress, resilience, and gender predict depressive symptoms. The study participants had an average of 1.96 children. Most commonly used coping mechanisms included planful problem-solving, seeking social support, and escape/avoidance. A statistically significant positive association was found between stress and depressive symptoms. Stress and depressive symptoms increased during the pandemic, while resilience decreased. The resulting statistically significant regression model of stress, resilience, and gender accounted for 75.4% of the variability in depressive symptoms. These results underscore the importance of addressing parental well-being and mental health during times of crisis, particularly when children are engaged in remote schooling.

Keywords: COVID-19, children, parenting, stress, coping

The alarming prevalence of HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancy among learners is of considerable concern. This study aimed to explore the barriers encountered by youth workers in implementing sexual and reproductive health education (SRHE) in secondary schools South Africa in the Western Cape province of South Africa and also to explore the benefits these youth workers bring. Qualitative methods and individual interviews were used to gather data. The findings show that cultural socialisation remains a major barrier to the effective implementation of SRHE by youth workers. Positive outcomes from the presence of the youth workers in schools include an increase in learners’ self-esteem and greater acceptance of moral values such as good citizenship and respect for others regardless of differences. Accordingly, this study recommends integrating youth workers into the schools by adding SRHE to the curriculum and having it implemented by them. When such programmes are set up, the role of youth workers in schools should be clearly articulated to avoid conflict between teachers and youth workers.

Keywords: youth workers, sexual education, reproductive health education, unwanted pregnancy, HIV/AIDS

In this article, I discuss my “anti-aging” body modification practices as body art. The art documents my bodybuilding programs, self-administered neurotoxin (Botox) injections, and skin resurfacing treatments. Susan Pickard (2020) argues that femininity and aging are associated with the abject. She maps the abject and non-abject onto Simone de Beauvoir’s distinction between immanence and transcendence. Because “abjection should always be understood as an element of [...] oppression” (Pickard 2020, 159), my art practice could be read as an anti-feminist, ageist attempt to expel the abject. After offering a counter-argument that positions my practice as feminist, I use Kathy Acker’s (1993) writing on bodybuilding to offer a third reading. Muscles grow when they are worked until failure. This practice of constantly coming up against the body’s limits is a rehearsal for the ultimate failure of the body: death (Acker 1993). If thanatology is the study of death and dying, bodybuilding is autothanatology. My “anti-aging” interventions are similar; they are inevitable failures that cannot stop the aging process. In this way, my practice is a reminder that the body exists in a state of immanence, even while I may attempt to frame my immanence along transcendental terms.

Keywords: abject, abject, vieillissement, aging, âgisme, ageism, anti-aging, anti-vieillissement, art corporel, body art, modification corporelle, body modification, feminist art, art féministe, immanence, immanence, thanatologie, thanatology, transcendence, transcendance

In the Philippines, there has been an upsurge in anti-Roman Catholic Church rhetoric, particularly since Rodrigo Duterte’s former presidency. This discursive reconfiguration relates to the use of drugs, and indicates, according to Foucauldian theories, a transfer of knowledge and power. The born-again churches are one of the focal centers of this new rhetoric. The article shows how the two Foucauldian genealogies, that of institutions and that of the self, are relevant for analyzing contemporary structures and characterizing the emergence of a new type of theological-political power in the Philippines. Finally, it examines the discontinuities that are likely to result from the new psycho-religious orientations developed by born-again churches in the Philippines and the resulting paradigm shift.

Keywords: Philippines, Philippines, war on drug, guerre contre la drogue, salut, salvation, psychoreligieux, psycho-religious, enthousiasme, enthusiasm, born-again, « born again »

Numerous studies around the world report that new teacher induction is particularly critical, with beginning teachers often dropping out of the profession. Coaching, such as that provided by a mentor, occupies a front-line position among the means that can support new teacher induction. But, to ensure fruitful support in terms of professional development for the beginner, the mentor must act with precaution and mobilize several support skills. This is one of the aspects documented in our doctoral research, conducted in the form of a multi-case study and using a qualitative/interpretative approach with four coach-beginner dyads from secondary education in Quebec.

Keywords: teacher induction, beginning teachers, mentoring support, support skills, case study, insertion professionnelle, enseignants débutants, accompagnement mentoral, compétences d’accompagnement, étude multicas

My social position emerges from years of activism and a rural, working-class history. For decades, I have worked in adult/lifelong learning and development—inside communities and post-secondary institutions—always with the goal of achieving a more just and equitable world. While I aspire to these ideals, I have also had to learn that acts of solidarity involve learning when to step forward, when to step back, and a willingness to step into the unknown. In this autoethnography I choose a few examples from life experience that illustrate solidarity in action and what might be termed revolutionary praxis. Using examples from my work in global/international development, settler-Indigenous relations, feminism, and public transportation, I explore activism and solidarity. Finally, I offer insights into how solidarity functions in spaces of adult learning, including attention to paradoxes or attempting to “do good” while reinforcing inequalities embedded in neoliberal funding, social histories, and authority structures. Positions of solidarity require deep levels of consciousness raising. In my experience, no transformation is without challenges, risk, and acts of courage.

Keywords: Solidarity, activism, feminism, Indigenous, Paulo Freire

Busking can produce positive atmospheres in public spaces through diverse social relations that, in addition to the music itself, can contribute to a sense of wellbeing among the urban populace. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the value of music and live performances in terms of their positive impact on well-being. This article analyzes the situation of buskers during the pandemic and gives insight into their subjective realities. Using the example of New York musician Colin Huggins, known as “the piano man of Washington Square Park,” the author highlights buskers’ dependence on governmental and societal support to sustain both well-being and music cultures in public spaces.

This text proposes a reflection on relationships of love in today's society from a Simmelian perspective, with a focus on a specific phenomenon: migration for love. Since the 1990s love-motivated migration has emerged in the discussion of the growing importance of social networks and new technologies. Using this social phenomenon that links love and migration as a strating point, the aim is to discuss its relation to some Simmelian concepts such as bonding, cohesion and sociability. This work highlights that migration for love is a typical example of a modern society in which individuals have had to seek new ways to relate and to love, which in turn affect living as a couple and building sentimental projects.