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In this paper, we seek to examine how organizational norms and structures in Canadian university sport perpetuate a culture that does not adequately address maltreatment, harassment, and abuse that affects women athletes. Our examination focuses on two inter-related questions. First, how do safe sport policies highlight gendering practices in university athletics? And second, how is safety problematized in safe sport policies? In addressing our research question, we apply genderwashing as a conceptual framework, alongside Carol Bacchi’s “What’s the Problem” approach to analyze the USPORTS and Western University’s safe sport policies. Our analysis reveals that safe sport policies demonstrate genderwashing practices in their use of gender-neutral language. The use of gender-neutral language within these policies contributes to an erasure of women athletes’ experiences, and a reluctance to engage with issues of gender violence in sport. We suggest addressing this issue will require a commitment to creating a safe sport culture that recognizes gender, and other axis of identity, as relevant to athletes’ diverse experiences and understanding of safety within Canadian university sport.

Keywords: Bacchi, Canadian universities, gender, safe sport, UCC Sport

Although free access to food is a common response to food insecurity, it does not guarantee consumption. Our research examines how the concept of pleasure can be incorporated into food support programmes offered by community organizations in Québec. A mixed methodology was employed to analyze the relationship between experienced food insecurity and the pleasure of eating. The results offer theoretical and practical ways forward, emphasizing the importance of considering the notion of choice in interventions. They provide food for thought and suggest to public decision-makers that they adopt a collective approach to combating food insecurity, enabling people to rediscover the pleasure of eating.

Keywords: plaisir, pleasure, food insecurity, insécurité alimentaire, community organisation, organisme communautaire, precarity, précarité, James Bay, Baie-James, Québec, Québec

Since the 2000s, the integration of educational technologies in higher education has generated growing interest, reflecting a major transformation in pedagogical practices. The Quebec college network, positioned at the interface between secondary education, universities, and the job market, is no exception to this evolution. However, a recent synthesis of research specific to this context is nonexistant. This article presents a scoping review of scientific studies published between 2000 and 2024 on the integration of educational technologies in Quebec’s college sector. Following PRISMA guidelines, the analysis combines both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Three major themes emerge: the impact of technologies on students, their influence on teaching practices, and the design of digital learning environments. The study also highlights emerging issues such as student mental health and teacher well-being. It shows that research evolves alongside technological advancements to better understand their effects on teaching and learning. By providing an overview of published studies, this review sheds light on research trends related to digital integration in college education and offers perspectives to guide future research in this context.

Keywords: educational technologies, technologies éducatives, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tecnologías educativas, tecnologias educativas, college education, enseignement collégial, ensino superior, educación colegial, CEGEP, CEGEP, CEGEP, cégep, revue de portée, scoping review, revisión sistemática exploratoria, análise de âmbito, scoping review

The Quebec Federation of Community Organizations has identified significant challenges related to the recruitment and retention of qualified workers in Family resource centres (FRCs). Inspired by community-based participatory research, this study seeks to better understand the work contexts in which employees in these centres evolve. Three main issues affecting work in FRCs were identified (i.e. underfunding, recruitment and retention difficulties, and lack of knowledge and recognition of FRC work), along with six work conditions that promote retention. The results provide insight into the structural conditions in which FRCs operate which contribute to workforce casualization.

Keywords: Family resource Centres, Organismes communautaires Famille, Working conditions, Conditions de travail, Labour shortage, Pénurie de main-d’oeuvre, Engagement, Commitment, Précarisation, Casualization

Unlike vocational and technical education (VTE), the topic of professional identity (PI) among teachers in technical education at the college level has received scant research attention. This article aims to deepen the understanding of the PI of teachers in technical education at a CEGEP (Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel) level by analyzing the results of research in vocational and technical training in Quebec, Canadian, and international contexts. It presents the results of a systematized review conducted in doctoral research. All the articles included in this review (n = 61) were analyzed using a mixed coding approach. The results show that teachers define themselves more by their disciplinary expertise than by their pedagogical expertise. Conversely, an identity based solely on the pedagogical dimension can lead to a weak actualization of professional knowledge. Therefore, the development of a dual identity integrating both pedagogical and professional dimensions is essential to adapt to changes in the world of work and education. This PI is dynamically constructed through social and individual factors via a process of interpretation and reinterpretation of experiences arising from practice.

Keywords: identité professionnelle, professional identity, enseignants, teachers, formation professionnelle, vocational and technical education (VTE), Cegep, formation technique, cégep

In Quebec, regular public schools, public schools with specific programs, and private schools coexist. The sociological analysis of these school markets requires consideration of the choices made by parents to understand the practices and discourse of social actors, as well as the structural factors that influence them. Indeed, not all parents have the same advantages when it comes to seeking information and to choosing a school for their children. This article aims to explore how parents living in disadvantaged environments, who did not attend university, mobilize their symbolic capital (according to Pierre Bourdieu’s definition) to choose a secondary school for their children, across different cities in the province of Quebec (Montreal, Sherbrooke, Quebec City, and Rimouski). The study is based on 24 semi-structured interviews conducted with parents in the process of choosing a secondary school for their children. The thematic analysis of the interviews shows that most parents without a university degree nevertheless are able to navigate and leverage the capital they possess in order to make an informed school choice for their children. Through the parents’ discourse, it becomes clear that values guide their choices, sometimes independently of financial means.

Keywords: capitaux symboliques, Symbolic capital, school choice, choix scolaire, school markets, marchés scolaires, unequal access to knowledge, inégalités scolaires

The history of mental health in Quebec has often been reduced to the activities of national, provincial and local committees dedicated to its development, or to the initiatives of a few committed individuals. However, behind these highly visible standard-bearers lie institutions that served as pillars for the development of this movement. Such is the case of the Roy-Rousseau Clinic and the La Jemmerais School, founded in 1926 and 1928, respectively, within the Saint-Michel-Archange Hospital in Beauport. Promoting a social neuropsychiatry that was open to and connected with the community, these two institutions, designed to be complementary and to break with traditional methods of internment, helped to establish and develop mental hygiene in the Quebec City region and beyond. This article looks back at the transnational history of this first adult neuropsychiatry service and the first school for “educable abnormal” children in the province, and their role in the emergence of the mental hygiene movement in Quebec.

Keywords: Mental Hygiene, Hygiène mentale, neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychiatrie, Québec, Quebec, Roy-Rousseau Clinic, Clinique Roy-Rousseau, l’École La Jemmerais, La Jemmerais School

Keywords: Adrien Arcand, Canadian fascism, Quebec politics, Quebec antisemitism

The sustainability of publishing systems goes far beyond the production of printed books, and there is now an urgent need to examine digital production methods, from software to the technical infrastructures used to disseminate knowledge. Despite a lack of consideration for the durability of these publishing modes, the tools and other technical workings can be rethought to take into account the dimensions of longevity and sobriety. As a concept and a community of practice, permacomputing allows us to explore radical initiatives in the use of computing in a limited context. Its extension into the field of publishing, permapublishing, is an opportunity to identify and analyze sustainable publishing modes that can be shared, hijacked or extended, through the elaboration of three structuring principles: decoupling, deprecation and empowerment.

In this article, we follow Foucault into the archives. Foucault spent much of his working life reading and researching in libraries and archives, and yet he most often figures in the archival literature as the creator of the rarified concept of “the archive.” As a counterpoint, this article explores Foucault’s work in archives, his use of archives in his work, and the significance he attached to archival research. Ultimately, I contend that it is impossible to understand the abstract archive as concept without first grounding it in the experiential, epistemological, methodological, and political dimensions of finding Foucault in the archives.