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In this essay, I analyze the educational crisis of global cognitive capitalism, focusing on the responsibility of the University as a social institution concerned with democratic education, critical awareness, and eco-social sensibility. With this aim, first I discuss the context of ultra-neoliberalism and its discontents regarding economic, social, political, epistemological, and scientific macrotrends. Secondly, I introduce the case of Brazilian education and its dialectics of reproducing cycles of transgenerational power relations. Third, I propose a political agenda for education as a fundamental human right, analyzing higher education as a condition of concerned, responsible planetary citizenship. Fourth, I elaborate a conceptual agenda for the University based on epistemologies of the Global South to help overcoming authoritarian, destructive threats of ultra-neoliberalism in contemporary societies.

Keywords: university, higher education, neoliberalism, capitalism, globalization, université, l’enseignement supérieur, néolibéralisme, capitalisme, mondialisation, universidad, educación superior, neoliberalismo, capitalismo, globalización

This work is a scholarly interview conducted with Dr. Charles Ungerleider on the effects of COVID-19 in Canada. The discussion explores the various aspects of the pandemic’s impact on Canadian education, such as: the effects of school closures; Canada’s lack of a federal ministry of education; the burnout faced by educators resulting from the sudden shift to online education; the obstacles in educating international students; the reduction of experiential learning in post-secondary schools; the media’s portrayal and politicization of pandemic school closures; the forced integration of virtual learning technology; the disproportionately deleterious repercussions of the pandemic education on the marginalized; and the need for schools in creating social cohesion.

Keywords: Canadian education policy, COVID-19 impact, Charles Ungerleider

This reflection leans on the report of a movement of the center of gravity of the museums from the collector’s items towards the visitors. This passage is both marked by the increase and the diversity of the forms of the participation of the publics within the institution. The concept of mediation suggests a holistic approach which welcomes under its dome a constellation of practices, considering all the museum functions and all the dimensions - physiological, emotional, playful and cognitive - of the real-life museum experience before, during and after the visit in the real or virtual space. However, the definitional fuzziness which characterizes cultural mediation in museum environment makes difficult its effectivness. For that reason, it requires a theoretical support allowing better framing of the strategies of intervention with the publics. So here’s the question: are theoretical approaches applied in education sciences, in particular constructivism and the socioconstructivism, facilitating the normalization of the practices of mediation in museum environment without corrupting its nature?

Keywords: educación, education, éducation, museum, musée, museo, constructivisme, constructivism, constructivismo, médiation culturelle, mediación cultural, cultural mediation

The studies on human capital, carried out to date, have clearly shown its importance for organizations. However, its construction in the workplace remains little explored. Even research on its model is scarce. To understand the variables to be prioritized, a study of Chadian HRM practitioners and theorists was carried out. We applied the mixed methodology. Data was generated through 11 semi-structured interviews and 178 surveys. The step-by-step deconstruction approach of the human capital construction process, from reception to permanence, was used. The results showed that at the stage of welcoming human capital in the organizational environment, coaching practices promote the skills to perform tasks in a structured manner. Then, at the integration stage, coaching practices and investments in training are two effective levers. Finally, during the permanence phase, we have seen an undeniable contribution from investments in training, but it is above all the opportunities for experience and the agile environment that promote the building of the best talents in the workplace. This article is useful for researchers who will find a renewed definition of human capital with new proven variables and items that appear to be more relevant. Managers and consultants will find new variables to effectively enhance and value human capital in the workplace. This article is in line with the theory of resources and the theory of skills and suggests that there is a differentiated relational contingency in each phase of the construction of human capital.

Keywords: Formation, agilité, expérience, capital humain, investissement

SummaryThis paper is an attempt to unravel the post-Fordist debate. This recurrent debate about the future of capitalism intensities during periods of crisis and transition. Three different perspectives on post-Fordism are identified and explored, each one evolving out of a particular tradition within classical political economy and stressing different driving forces in the historical development of capitalism. An underlying theme within the paper is the existence of significantly contrasting views about the openness of the new phase of capitalist development: disagreement over whether post-Fordism is primarily about the inevitable diffusion of a new and pervasive disciplining of labour or the formation of strategic initiatives and the making of history.

Keywords: post-fordisme, crises, transition, capitalisme, économie politique, post-Fordism, crisis, transition, capitalism, political economy, posfordismo, crisis, transición, capitalismo, economía política

Canada, as a country with a small, open economy, faces the immediate challenge of learning to shape dynamic comparative advantage in the emerging international economy. About 75 % of Canada's trade linkages are with the United States, and a very large component of the Canadian experience of « globalization » is driven by North American economic integration. This integration is taking place in the absence of institutions and policy mechanisms to promote and manage science, technology, and innovation relations on a continental scale. Bilateral s & T arrangements centered on the United States presently characterize the North American innovation System. Circumstances in North America pose three sets of challenges to Canadian s & T policy. 1) Science and technology are increasing in importance in international trade, environmental, and social/cultural matters. This means that Canada must learn to improve its management of an increasingly internationalized domestic s & T System. 2) Canada must cultivate mutually beneficial bilateral s & T relationships with its two partners in NAFTA, Mexico and the United States. 3) Canada must identify where its interests lie in the development and governance of trilateral and international rules and arrangements for science, technology, and innovation.

This paper proceeds from the premise that profound changes have transformed the structure of world politics and that, consequently, a new, transnational paradigm of the global system needs to be developed. All the existing paradigms are found to be incapable of handling the proliferation of actors, the declining capacities of governments, the mushrooming of subgroup loyalties, the growing demands of the Third World, and the expansion of the range of issues on the global agenda - to mention only the most salient of the transformations that have rendered world politics both more decentralized and more complex. What is needed, it is argued, is a model organized around micro units of analysis that are common to both the new and old actors, issues, and structures and that thus form the foundation of the many new macro aggregations which have come to share the world stage with governments and international organizations.After developing a conception of four types of aggregational processes through which micro parts are converted into macro wholes, the analysis focuses on two types of transnational roles as worthy of consideration as the basic micro units of the new paradigm. The two types are designated as primitive and derivative roles. The former refers to roles in macro units that would not exist if their activities did not span national boundaries (the multinational corporation is an example), while the latter refers to roles in macro aggregations that do not depend on transnational interactions for their existence even though performances in them to have transnational consequences (examples are farmers, parents, and car drivers, who are both active and inadvertent participants in, respectively, today's global food, population, and energy issues).Whatever the issue involved, and irrespective of whether they are primitive or derivative, all transnational roles can be located on a legitimacy-authority continuum and seen as varying between two extremes, one which gives exclusive priority to the citizen role in a nation-state and the other which accords exclusive loyalty to the transnational role. The tourist and the terrorist are offered as examples of roles at the two extremes of this important continuum.