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This article articulates some of the historic as well as the main philosophic contributions to the transitional period in educational thought in America, 1866-1895. This is a period in which the movement away from idealism towards pragmatism as the basis for educational thought began. Contemporaneous with the development of pragmatism was a development in educational thought that stressed naturalism, functionalism, and the organic nature of mind and behaviour. As idealism laid claim to the dominant philosophy in America in the period 1866-1895, so too did it lay claim to being the dominant philosophic presupposition of educational thought. It was the first American philosophy of education: America’s first philosophy of education was not pragmatist; it was idealist, though this would change, beginning in the mid-1890’s. As pragmatism began to take hold of philosophy at the fin de siècle, so too did it begin to take hold of, and later dominate, the philosophic presuppositions of educational thought.
Keywords: pragmatism, idéalisme, Idealismo, idealism, pragmatismo, pragmatisme, filosofía Americana de la educación en los años de 1890, American philosophy of education in the 1890s, Amérique, C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, W.T. Harris, fin-de-siècle, pensée éducative, science de l'éducation, philosophie de l'éducation, historiographie
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The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec is the oldest of our state museums. It had been in the making since 1922 and opened its doors in 1933, in the middle of an economic crisis. It was also in a difficult context that its identity, collections and outreach initiatives gradually took shape under the aegis of directors whose backgrounds were as different as they were complementary. Among them, the visionary and resilient Paul Rainville (1887-1952) stands out. An inspiring personality, he was the model for transparent management, accountability and concern for serving the community well. He left a varied and lasting imprint on a national institution which, until 1963, was known as the “Musée de la Province de Québec.” If Rainville had lived in our time, he would no doubt have known how to cope with our governance regulations and find innovative ways to overcome the obstacles confronting our museal institutions both large and small.
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AbstractThis article does not presume to reconsider the extensive efforts of those who have recently studied the lives and work of John and Alan Lomax on the national and international scenes. Rather, it is limited to the impact of the Lomaxes in French Louisiana, especially that of Alan, who was variantly inspiring and intimidating, frustrating and fascinating. During the 1930s, John and Alan Lomax traveled across this country recording traditional music for the Library of Congress. Their recordings became the basis for the Library's Archive of Folk Song, a veritable treasure of America's traditional music. It could be said of Alan that his observations were brilliant, while his interpretations were sometimes off the mark. This article seeks neither to glorify nor to vilify, only to give credit and critique where they are due.
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The Constitution Act, 1982, has notably provided Canada with its own constitutional amendment procedures. Among these, two procedures deal with the modification of the provisions of the Constitution of Canada which refer to the use of the English or the French language, more specifically sections 41c) and 43b).The purpose of this study is to determine which of these procedures applies to the amendment of some of the constitutional provisions relating to the use of the English or the French language; those provisions being section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867, section 23 of the Manitoba Act, 1870, and sections 16 to 20 of the Constitution Act, 1982.Using as background the legislative and judicial history of those language provisions, the author develops the idea that the choice of one of the procedures over the other depends, in large part, on the nature of the constitutional guarantees to be modified. Therefore, he comes to the conclusion that both section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867, as it applies to Québec, and section 23 of the Manitoba Act, 1870, should be amended pursuant to the unanimity procedure set out in section 41c). As for the provisions in the Constitution Act, 1982, which concern bilingualism in New-Brunswick, they could be amended under the procedure set out in section 43b). Finally, both section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867, as it applies to Federal jurisdiction, and the provisions in the Constitution Act, 1982, regarding bilingualism at the Federal level, could be subject to the procedure set out in section 41c).