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Among the creators who target a young readership and who practice humor in comics, we have chosen to study the case of Jacques Goldstyn. Through his abundant universe, we limit our remarks to his Van l'inventeur series. We chose this series because it covers two decades and because its five volumes present a certain uniformity. Our objective for this article is to identify the most frequent humorous devices in the Van l'inventeur comic series by Jacques Goldstyn. In order to achieve this objective, we consider it relevant to paint a portrait of the author-illustrator to better understand his humorous universe. Then, we overview the concept of the attractions of the book (Saricks 2005; 2009), because the humorous devices useful to our subject are directly linked to it. Then, we present our methodology where a grid of different humorous processes (Montésinos-Gelet, DeRoy-Ringuette and Dupin de Saint-André, 2021) is used in order to draw up a quantitative portrait of their use. Our results regarding the boards of the Van l'inventeur series are then presented.
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Although promoting consumer cooperatives was at the heart of Charles Gide's work and writings, his thinking went beyond this organizational form. The article elucidates his aim of wanting to profoundly transform the social order through widespread associative democracy, which is the foundation of the social economy. In favor of any institution that could improve living conditions and the solidarity between individuals, Gide first and foremost sought to create an economy and a society that were not dominated by the profit motive. The author, who was instrumental in publishing Gide's works, puts this economist's thinking and pragmatism into perspective by drawing on a number of his writings. In particular, the article shows that Gide had no illusions about the utopia of a cooperative republic and the difficulties encountered by consumer cooperatives. Beyond the myth, Gide hoped to transform the consumer into someone who played an active role. Many of Gide's concerns—consumer associations, ethical trade, saving the planet—are widely shared today, as are his thoughts on competition and free trade in Europe.
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Research has pointed out that school teachers and students sometimes apply several forms of rejection of evolution theory and, also, that they perceive various forms of interaction between scientific knowledge and religious beliefs. To further explore these interactions, we have built a questionnaire enabling us to study the way students position scientific knowledge compared to religious beliefs, and vice versa, based on a theoretical model (Wolfs, 2013 : Wolfs, Salamon, De Coster, El Boudamoussi, & Jackson, 2008) describing six different conceptions: «rejection of science in the name of fideist conceptions», «classic concordism», «reversed concordism», «scientific autonomy», «complementarity» and «rationalist critiques of religious beliefs». In this paper, after presenting the theoretical frame and methodology underlying the construction of the questionnaire, we tested its construct validity and the internal consistence of its dimensions based on data collected from 638 undergraduate French speaking Belgian students in their last year of compulsory school education. The results obtained through confirmatory factor analysis and by Chronbach's alpha analysis are consistent with our theoretical model. Thus we discuss the relevance of this questionnaire, intended to examine an educational issue for which very few investigation tools exist.
Keywords: épistémologie, conceptions de la nature de la science, croyances religieuses, enseignement secondaire, epistemology, views of nature of science, religious beliefs, undergraduate students, epistemologia, conceções sobre a natureza da ciência, crenças religiosas, ensino secundário
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This article proposes a neo-Marxist reflection on volunteer work practices (VWP) in order to move away from a pure and idealized conception of volunteering as a gift of self to inscribe it as a set of value-producing work practices inserted in neoliberal capitalism. Using three examples of contemporary volunteering, the article demonstrates the anchoring of the VWP in a war of values in which the latter are co-opted by neoliberal capitalism, by the very fact of their idealization and naturalization as free self-giving. This article is part of a more general reflection on the value of work in today's capitalism; it proposes an analytical and political gesture.
Keywords: bénévolat, pratiques, néomarxisme, valeurs, travail, capitalisme néolibéral
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The historic study of the fragmentation of the parcels — and particularly of the layouts — has developed thanks to the interpretation of aerial photographs. The images, given by the satellite SPOT, introduce a much more adaptable and universal tool. But to use it, it is necessary to master a sophisticated technology. We first introduce the making of coloured images to ease the interpretation linked with aerial photographs, by showing the differences in the perception of the landscape. Then the combination of the two images allows to improve the perception and to calculate filtered images of limits which are selected by means of semiautomatic processes. The Fourrier spectra allow to get a statistic concerning the spacing between the limits of the fields and this statistic does not depend on any of the assumptions of the observer. Moreover, SPOT allows to see that the covered structures are neither a Greco-Roman phenomenon, nor a Mediterranean one, but they have been universally used for ages.
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Keywords: Diversité ethnoculturelle, croyances et pratiques pédagogiques, grounded theory, école francophone minoritaire, vécu professionnel
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Family planning is an important part of the broad range of subjects covered in demography. Contraceptive decision-making is the focus of various studies in the discipline. This article presents an illustration of the contribution of a qualitative approach to family planning research, focusing on contraceptive responsibility. The data used were obtained through semi-structured interviews with women in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon. The information-gathering technique used provides respondents with a framework for expressing the meaning of their contraceptive practices, and also offers the researcher the tools to develop a reading grid not only of perceptions of issues in fertility regulation, but also of logics of action related to decision-making in emergency contraceptive pill use.