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First-year writing pedagogies prioritize encouraging students to forge an academic identity by conceptualizing and intervening in scholarly conversations. Student writers from institutionally underprepared backgrounds often find this process both limiting and empowering because specific practices associated with classroom expectations and the university experience remain unfamiliar to them. In this article, I reveal a need for “how-to” exercises within the first-year writing classroom that aim to dismantle the hidden curriculum—a term that denotes the resources, norms, and values that are inaccessible to students who have not received guidance on these aspects of university academics. These interventions, which range from instruction on modes of classroom participation to methods of preparing for office hours, already complement the standard first-year writing curriculum and promise to promote success among underprepared students by rendering possibilities for class engagement explicit.
Keywords: first generation, low income, social exchange theory, hidden curriculum
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City planners and citizens often see gardens as spaces for urban beautification projects. However, urban agriculture and growing food in cities is becoming an increasingly accepted use of public green spaces. This article examines how gardeners and the City of Vancouver negotiate space while trying to create green cities, greater awareness of food security issues, and community in urban environments. These gardens show how local discourses of health, environment, and food production are created through this process of appropriating urban spaces for horticultural activities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the development of spontaneous and grassroots urban agriculture movements in Vancouver. This research was carried out from 2006 to 2008 while the city was preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. At this time, Vancouverites, local officials, and Games organizers were concerned about putting on a “green” Games. As the media spotlight began to fall on Vancouver, urban agriculture became a very public demonstration of the city's environmental awareness. This article looks at how, at a particular historic moment, grassroots gardening movements gained mainstream acceptance and played a role in constructing the city's image as an environmentally aware urban place with a high standard of living.
Keywords: urban agriculture, community gardens, guerrilla gardening, Olympic Games, agriculture urbaine, jardins communautaires, guérilla du jardinage, Jeux Olympiques
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Around the world, confinement measures imposed during the COVID‑19 pandemic have forced universities to shut down their campuses. Graduate students opted for online modalities to progress their academic writing projects, including theses and dissertations. In Canada, a non-profit organization named Thèsez‑vous implemented innovative digital strategies to support students in times of crisis. This article presents qualitative results obtained from 33 PhD students who have used said tools to continue their studies. A follow-on discussion focuses on existing digital learning environments and considerations for subsequent research.
Keywords: Pandémie, outils numériques, modalités virtuelles, cycles supérieurs, étudiants, rédaction académique, enseignement et apprentissage, Pandemic, digital tools, virtual modalities, higher studies, graduate students, academic writing, teaching and learning
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The objective of this article is to find the most effective ways of optimizing the interaction. The methodology implemented in this research is a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test methodology and the proposed scenario was put into practice in a class at the Master II level of French Foreign Language (FFL) at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran (Iran), in order to enable interaction among students. This practice allows us, today, to conclude that virtual classroom teachers will have an interest in designing interactive scenarios based on integration of the activities defined within the framework of cooperative and collaborative learning as well as in optimally exploiting existing technological possibilities.
Keywords: Apprentissage collaboratif, apprentissage coopératif, classe virtuelle, enseignement supérieur, Iran, FLE, interaction, Collaborative learning, cooperative learning, FFL, higher education, Iran, interaction, virtual classroom
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Organizational backends and logistics are often complex and many institutions set-up their workflows based on manual and tedious processes that negatively shape their interactions with stakeholders. Incorporating new technologies can be intimidating, however there exists a plethora of financially and technically accessible resources, that don’t require any coding knowledge, that institutions can utilize to enhance their organizational workflow and stakeholder experience. Guided by our own learning experiences in optimal logistical set-up and user design, we wish to highlight five effective and easily implementable tricks to aid higher institutions and student groups in healthcare accomplish their administrative duties.
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With the actual media crisis caused by the digital revolution, local territories have felt the impact of business models shifts on the existence of newsrooms and the vitality of local news. The combined effects of the economic crisis and the advertising crisis on business models have been devastating in some regions. This article presents four areas of reflection on the evolution of regional and local media in Quebec. The economic, political, local development and imbalance issues between urban centers and regional and rural communities in relation to local media arise with the advent of the digital media boom and state intervention through public policies.
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Recent research in the field of virtual reality (VR) education is dominated by the application, experience, and effectiveness of high-immersive environments. However, high-immersive VR may not be accessible to all learners, with online distance learning students in particular unable to fully engage without being supplied with appropriate accessories. These field notes shed light on the role of low-immersive VR as a desktop tool for online distance learning students, exploring student experience of using 360° virtual spaces to undertake a summative assessment. Primary data collection in the form of an anonymous online survey was employed to gather feedback from postgraduate environmental management students who used low-immersive VR to undertake an environmental management system audit of a university campus. Quantitative results were analysed using descriptive statistics and qualitative responses using thematic analysis. Findings indicated that with guidance from the academic teaching staff and practice using the software, the majority of students felt both prepared and happy to undertake a summative assessment using VR spaces. Skills development and an appreciation of the effectiveness of the assessment approach were also highlighted as positive outcomes reinforcing findings from literature on the value of VR to improve learning outcomes particularly with practical tasks. Limitations of the assessment content and software were however noted by students, but both could be resolved with adaptations to the tool. It is hoped this research will be valuable to online education providers to demonstrate the value of using low-immersive VR within their programmes.
Keywords: virtual reality (VR), low-immersive, online learning, student experience, environmental management education
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The past decades have had a significant impact on libraries; important changes have threatened their existence or have forced them to rethink their role and function. In developed countries they have been able to ally digital resources with the more traditional library services and create new ones. A new type of librarian has seen the light of day and the diversity of his or her services has altered a longstanding identity. In Africa, and especially in Mali, change in libraries has not occurred in the same proportions. The country certainly relies on more and more newly-educated librarians but actual libraries are few and far between. Where they do exist, they are not equipped with information technologies that can support significant change. Several of the country's libraries are not organised according to recognised operating practices, such as an acquisitions budget. The coordination of libraries is also lacking. Given these conditions, the small changes that occur elsewhere do not happen in Mali. In spite of innovative services in very few libraries (digital libraries, Facebook accounts), could the priority not be placed on a territorial networking of libraries, creating conditions that are favourable to their proper functioning and to offer basic services to the population?
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Famili@ is a database of family research in Quebec, available since 1998 on the Internet. Its history, objectives, target audience, actual audience and the parameters of its content are described first. Subsequently, there is a presentation of the data collected for the database, a compendium of 25 years of research on the family in Quebec, from 1981 to 2005, including the wider themes, some characteristics of the authors (gender, discipline) and the initial format of the published works.
Keywords: Recherche, famille, Québec, sciences humaines, banque de données, Research, family, Quebec, social sciences, database
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During COVID-19, many collaborative research teams and community partners pivoted to undertake their work in a virtual way. In this discussion, we capture the mechanics, logic, and situations under which virtual methods became relevant to applied interdisciplinary work. Using a shared voice, we chart the nuances of training and research through the redesign, the reimagining of research protocols, and the nuanced cultural gaps that exist between virtual connection and in-person visiting with community partners, Métis Knowledge Keepers, and experts. Through referencing our reflexive archive of experiences, emails, fieldnotes, and meeting minutes, we address how our attempt to simulate virtual informed consent has consequently provided insights into the value of co-creation and the importance of honouring visiting as a Métis method in virtual environments.
Keywords: Métis methods, care, collaboration, virtual methods, informed consent, méthodes métis, care, collaboration, méthodes virtuelles, consentement éclairé