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The continuous contact between the English and French languages in Canada has favoured the development of distinct vernacular languages: joual in Quebec, chiac in Acadia and franglais (or frenglish) in French Manitoba. The literary success Michel Tremblay and France Daigle have garnered writing in joual and chiac respectively illustrates how heterolinguism can be used as a vector for creativity. In Manitoba, Marc Prescott and Stéphane Oystryk have chosen to write in franglais, the former in his play Sex, lies et les Franco-Manitobains (1993), the latter in his feature film FM Youth (2014). This familiar language serves as a springboard to probe an awareness of “consciousness of alterity within a minority” (Émir Delic) and acts as a prism in which a complex dynamic of conflicts is refracted. Centered on ideological issues, the “remixed” rhetoric of this youth, doubly minoritized, reveals an important epistemological repositioning, that of an assumed otherness.
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Differentiated instruction is one of the measures intended to improve academic achievement for all students. However, its theoretical construct remains unclear and teachers rarely use it systematically. In this context, this article aims to provide theoretical clarification by first operating a distinction between differentiated instruction and the practice of differentiation. A conceptualization of differentiated instruction based on the construct of intentionality of action is then proposed. Features of practices of differentiation are also described in order to contribute to their operationalization. The results presented stem from a research conducted with 24 elementary teachers in Quebec, which included a first phase of exploration of their representations concerning differentiated instruction and a second phase of observation of actual practices.
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Drawing on personal letters, published memoirs, and court martial records, this article investigates the gendered and ethnic implications of the Battle of the Windmill in November 1838. While this invasion of Upper Canada by the Hunter Patriots has often been seen as the final chapter of the 1837 Canadian Rebellions, it was also an episode imbued with Irish fraternal societies, Irish politics, notions of Irish manliness, and the attempts of Irish settlers to earn their place within “respectable” Upper Canadian society. The scandalous castration of an Irish officer and the mistreatment of dead soldiers' bodies stood in direct contrast to the value each force placed on heroic martial manliness. Despite the relatively small size of the battlefield, the legacy of the battle itself significantly impacted how Irish settlers were treated in Upper Canadian society at the end of the 1830s.
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The uses of digital technologies in politics have become a significant research object within political science, although more developed in the Anglophone than in the Francophone academic literature. This special issue of Politique et Sociétés aims at re-balancing this distortion, by presenting and putting into perspective the results of a comparative French-Québec research project on digital campaigning, titled enpolitique.com. This introduction to the special issue offers an overview of the academic literature in both English and French, as well as a synthesis of the main results discussed in the issue. It addresses three research subfields: the growing and diverse uses of the web and social media as campaign tools; the development of teams specialized in digital political communication that assist the candidates and parties; and the practices of the digital devices by some of the citizens, who appear to be sociologically specific and politicized. The conclusion is that the implementation of digital technologies does not radically change the logics of the electoral competitions. However, it leads to major changes in political communication itself.
Keywords: campagne numérique, médias sociaux, Internet, Québec, France, digital campaigning, social media, Internet, Québec, France
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In 2018, at Université de Montréal, the author gave a creative writing class on blogs and kept a journal based on his teaching. He comments on class activities, talks about French and Québec blogs, and questions the nature of this digital writing practice, in particular its relationship with the essay as a literary genre. The article is the narrative of an experiment as well as the opportunity to discuss methodological questions: how does one describe and study blogs? How does one distinguish this mode of expression from what circulates on social networks?
Keywords: essai, blogue, écriture numérique, identité numérique, Québec, France, réseaux sociaux, essay, blog, digital writing, digital identity, Québec, France, social networks
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This paper presents an exploratory study of the representations of science and scientists in online debates about Global Warming between non-scientists. We analysed qualitatively and in an comprehensive manner the exchanges held in two websites discussing so-called "skeptic" theses. Results show that debates occur in very small and active communities that develop quite well-structured argumentation. Skeptics claim to produce a true scientific discourse, and develop a representation where science skeptical scientists embody the scientific ideal face of scientific institutions and researchers perceived as corrupted and driven by ideology. Opponents to skeptical positions highlight sêcific mechanisms of the scientific literature to deny to skeptics the status of experts.
Keywords: communication médiatisée par ordinateur, débat en ligne, représentations sociales, réchauffement climatique, climato-scepticisme, discours profane, représentation scientifique, computer-mediated communication, online debate, social representations, global warming, climate-skepticism, common discourse, scientific representation
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Thanks to their user-friendliness and massive expansion in the population, tablets could be the digital tool beyond gendered stereotypes, and a way to counter the long time association between “digital technologies” and masculinity in the field of education. Cross-analysis of teachers' speech on their representations and classroom practices reveal that adherence to stereotypes is already at work and reinforces a gendered hierarchy in primary school. More men are involved and described themselves as “active” while women are more sceptical and “observing”. This research emphasises the need of initial and lifelong training for each teacher, to avoid a transmission of gendered and aged stereotypes in the transliteracy skills among teachers and children.
Keywords: tablettes tactiles, professeur.e.s des écoles, genre, TICE, formation des enseignant.e.s, tablets, primary school teachers, gender, ICTs, training teacher
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Many sections of the Civil Code of Lower Canada are in their very nature rules of maritime law. The province of Québec was first a French colony, then a British colony. In 1866, the Commissioners picked up from the French law and English law the rules which now form these rules of maritime law. The author analyzes in a first step the admiralty law which was applied under the French and the English regimes. He also scrutinizes the jurisdictions of the tribunals having to apply these rules. On the other hand, the Civil Code of Lower Canada was adopted before the Confederation. At that time, the colonial legislature was not fully competent in matters of admiralty. How was the colonial status considered by the Commissioners and how did it limit their ambit in this subject matter?