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On the occasion of the research projects initiated by the French Community of Belgium (Communauté Française de Belgique) as an application of its decree "Missions" (24-7-1997), this article develops some reflections and propositions concerning the geography courses during the last four years in general and technological teaching. They are based on the notion of competence as well as on the definition of the necessary final competences in geography, which permits a new focusing of the learning procedures and a better organisation, in view of the desired objectives. Moreover, the article tries to identify the geographical knowledge necessary for the application of these competences. In fact, this knowledge has been classified in three groups: spatial references, keys for the study of territorial organisations and study of particular themes.
Keywords: compétence, savoirs géographiques, competence, geographical knowledge
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This article proposes a new reading of Quebec Studies in Brazil, where most of the dynamism comes from a small group of professors of literature, as well as from the institutional collaboration of Quebec and of Canada. As well, the author shows that work on Quebec literature are most often undertaken in a comparative perspective of reflection on identity and culture. The comparative reading of two peripheral and little consulted literatures, whose context of production (relation to the language, representation of the Other, colonial inheritance, national emergence) contains some parallels, allows for posing a new look on Quebec, particularly when these come from a métissaged culture such as Brazil's.
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Located in arid regions, the foggara in Algeria, the Qanat in Iran, Khettara in Morocco and Falj in Oman, are a system used for the acquisition and distribution of water, based on horizontal drainage galleries. However, although there are similarities in their collection system (galleries and shafts), these traditional techniques show differences in their water source and in the technique of water sharing. Through this study, based on prospecting trips in five oases of the Algerian Sahara and investigations at the oases, we could identify seven types of foggara, namely: those that receive water from the water table at the foot of a mountain range; those that drain the waters of the intermittent streams; which receive waters from the “Continental Intercalaire” aquifer; which receive water from a spring; which receive the waters from the Occidental Great Erg aquifer; which capture drainage and infiltration; and finally those that capture only flood waters (foggara of Mzab).
Keywords: Sahara, Algérie, Foggara, Nappe, Source, Albien, Oued, Sahara, Algeria, foggara, qanat, groundwater, spring, intermittent stream
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In the context of human's mobility in the world, Islam's settlement in Quebec becomes a social fact, which breaks from traditional representations of Christians and Muslims relationships. Hence, we ought to wonder how is it possible to renew the communication between the two communities? This paper aims at identifying kinds of dialogue that break away from the belief that both communities are normally disconnected. We envision Quebec as a forum for dialogue meanwhile questioning a possible exchange framework that would facilitate a greater social cohesion.
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In those times, when one tries to live the difference in other ways, without devaluating “the other”, this paper presents the results of a study made in Montréal (Québec, Canada) that focused on the autobiographical spiritual narratives of feminist women that are engaged in intercultural or interreligious practices. The study is made in a context where grassroots antiracist feminists distinguish different geopolitical groups between which unequal and postcolonial relations take place, including Natives, migrants, French and English people. On the theoretical level, the study belongs to the field of an intercultural and multireligious feminist theology. We heard the narratives of women coming from different religious or spiritual traditions. What strategies do they have to create a relational justice? Four dimensions are found in their actions: criticizing hierarchies to create equality, unlearning their own biases, building up a self-esteem that integrates their tales of suffering, as well as others', and the transforming force of their group of affinity.
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