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Researchers are under increasing pressure to disseminate research more widely with non-academic audiences (efforts we call knowledge mobilization, KMb) and to articulate the value of their research beyond academia to broader society. This study surveyed SSHRC-funded education researchers to explore how universities are supporting researchers with these new demands. Overall, the study found that there are few supports available to researchers to assist them in KMb efforts. Even where supports do exist, they are not heavily accessed by researchers. Researchers spend less than 10% of their time on non-academic outreach. Researchers who do the highest levels of academic publishing also report the highest levels of non-academic dissemination. These findings suggest many opportunities to make improvements at individual and institutional levels. We recommend (a) leveraging intermediaries to improve KMb, (b) creating institutionally embedded KMb capacity, and (c) having funders take a leadership role in training and capacity-building.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the health and well-being of families in South Africa, amplifying family challenges and requiring modifications to their coping mechanisms. While the pandemic has been successfully managed in South Africa, some challenges, such as those related to poverty, loss of income, and economic uncertainty, have been exacerbated. This study, which used an exploratory qualitative research design, sought to offer insight into the coping mechanisms of South African families used to deal with family challenges during the pandemic. Through purposive and snowball sampling, 31 participants were recruited; the majority were living in a nuclear family, but some had other arrangements. The participants were from six municipal districts in the Western Cape Province. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and data were analysed using thematic analysis. The findings of this study demonstrate that the coping mechanisms families used during the COVID-19 pandemic were largely drawn from internal resources.
Keywords: family, family challenges, coping mechanisms, COVID-19, South Africa
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With the arrival of ChatGPT, the term artificial intelligence (AI) seems to become a fashion where several fields of expertise must renegotiate established paradigms. In the context of work, ever-growing literature predicts major transformations in work organization resulting in jobs rendered obsolete by the use of AI. This provocative essay goes against this trend. To support the argument, the authors use the concept of organizational stupidity to demonstrate how the irrational or even stupid side of businesses will surpass the efficient rationality promised by AI. Finally, practical implications are proposed for organizational decision-makers.
Keywords: IA, stupidité organisationnelle, psychologie organisationnelle, ère numérique, stupidité fonctionnelle
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This article explores the dynamics of work within the platform economy, focusing on the experiences of young Uber and Uber Eats workers in Quebec. The authors examine how these workers perceive their job security, freedom of work, and the meaning they ascribe to their professional activity in a context dominated by algorithmic management. The article first highlights the distinction between rights associated with employee status and those associated with the status of an independent worker, the latter being characteristic of the platform economy. The analysis of interview data with 48 young Uber and Uber Eats workers operating in Quebec then leads to three findings. Firstly, young workers express a sense of job security linked to the flexibility and direct access to the job market that platforms provide, despite the absence of traditional social guarantees. Secondly, they highly value the freedom offered by this type of work, especially in terms of autonomy in organizing work and timetable flexibility. However, this freedom is qualified by the dependence on platform algorithms that manage task allocation. Thirdly, the analysis reveals that for these young people, work on the platforms represents a productive participation in society, contrasting with the perception of "empty or meaningless labour" often associated with traditional employment. This experience is perceived as more rewarding because it is directly linked to market demand. Although the platform economy has challenges, particularly in terms of social protection and job security, it nevertheless offers young workers valued opportunities for security, freedom, and meaning in their work.
Keywords: Plateformes numériques, organisation du travail, jeunes, conditions d'emploi, sens du travail
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Keywords: transfert, lecture littéraire, collégial, réussite éducative, didactique
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Students have the opportunity to use different digital tools for collaboration purposes, particularly when they engage in research activities or investigations. But these tools can be part of distinct contexts, official or unofficial, depending on those used. Hence the interest in examining the interactive processes at work in both cases, just as the gradual transition from one to the other is likely to explain why the players distance themselves somewhat from the official bodies in order to work together. It is then hypothesized that such transition is capable of giving collective activity an heuristic dimension, notably a propensity for discovery. In this paper, it is put to the test in support of a theoretical field (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning) and data (qualitative/quantitative) from recent studies, bearing in mind that another factor (the size of the groups formed by the students) seems to play a significant role in this matter.
Keywords: collaboration, collaboration, colaboración, colaboração, recherche collective, collective research, pesquisa coletiva, investigación colectiva, interação à distância, interacciones en línea, online interactions, Interactions à distance, technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC), information and communication technologies (ICT), tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC), tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC), students, estudantes, estudiantes, étudiants
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Digital transformation is on the agenda of many public organizations that aim to take advantage of the potential of recent information and communication technologies. However, the meaning and scope are subject to different interpretations and perceptions that will vary depending on multiple factors that are internal and external to the organization. This impacts the rationality of this transformation, the organizational meaning attributed to it and above all what the transformation will be for the organization. This article originates from this ambiguity to show how the digital transformation is impacted by discourses that are largely outside of its sphere. It first examines three discourses used to legitimize digital transformation: the discourse of performance, that of change and innovation, and that of bureaucratic reform. It then identifies, with the help of a few examples, avenues of interpretation allowing us to understand more fundamentally the meaning of digital transformation for public organizations.
Keywords: Transformation numérique, performance publique, numérique, administration publique, bureaucratie
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We explore a site of unplanned, informal critical pedagogy and how raising critical conscious occurs. During the Covid-19 pandemic, some students in England were required to pay rent for accommodation they could not occupy, or which offered reduced amenities. These largely first-year undergraduates had yet to meet each other. Nonetheless, these students – many of whom are not the traditionally ‘oppressed’ - joined together to resist collectively, refusing to pay rent. Their action resulted in some partial victories. Through the lens of Freire’s critical pedagogy, we examine students’ lived experiences of participating in rent-strikes – using semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. Ideas of dialogue, praxis and learning with others through collective resistance, pervade the data. The research fleshes-out these stages which interweave to raise critical consciousness. This offers a site of critical hope, providing insights into possibilities for realising critical pedagogy across a wider demographic in spite of a relentless neoliberal agenda.
Keywords: critical consciousness, critical pedagogy, critical hope, social movements, praxis
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The present study investigates the experiences of second generation South Asian-Canadian women with shadeism. Two narrative interviews were conducted and analyzed thematically. Results indicate that collaborators had a desire to be fair that was shaped by their generational and intra-familial relationships as well as the media they were exposed to. This desire led to their use of make-up and skin-lightening creams to achieve fairness. Insecurity about their skin tone had a negative affect on their relationship with themselves and their social networks, including their dating life and friendships.
Keywords: South Asian, Canadian, second-generation, shadeism, colourism, cultural, diaspora, postcolonial