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Do the traditional French-language subject access tools meet the needs of users in public and school libraries? The negative conclusion to this question is supported by an evaluation of available subject-heading lists and a critical examination of 100 monographs recently catalogued by the Services documentaires multimedia. This article also summarises the evolution of subject catalogues in North America and concludes with a number of recommendations aimed at creating a vocabulary that is better adapted to the needs of the users.
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Keywords: politiques éducatives, santé mentale, école, élèves réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile, Canada
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Appointment of top civil servants in France presents two antagonistic features. On the one hand, it is determined by political factors: beyond law, the power of appointment depends on political relations between the President of the Republic and the Government; growing politicisation of the top civil service has lead to set up a French spoils system. But, on the other hand, recruiting of top civil servants reveals, in fact, a certain professionalism which pushes to strengthen legal limitations on the choice of political authorities.
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This article is based upon five years of fieldwork in Brazil on a popular housing movement and on democracy and popular participation in the town of Diadema. The author shows that popular movements are composed of both sexes and argues that gender relationships help in formulating objectives in the struggle which turn out to be collective ones for men and women. Thus popular participation of both sexes has direct consequences on the nature of public policies and the implementation of social citizenship for the deprived.
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In many countries, including France, the non-take-up of social services is a subject of increasing attention, which is reflected in the production of statistics or the development of specific actions. It meets a strong interest from several actors, partly for its capacity to offer a critical and renewed look on the evolutions of the social protection system. However, the popularity of the fight against non-take-up comes at a time when reforms make access to social systems more complex and/or reduce the scope of social rights, which places it at the heart of the ambivalence of the social state.
Keywords: non-recours, protection sociale, ciblage, activation, réception des politiques
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The report by Professor Jean-Pierre Proulx and his colleagues to the government of Quebec in 1999 has raised profound questions of fundamental law and education policy.The authors examine, first, the question of whether the Constitutional Amendment of 1997 was lawfully adopted, as maintained by Professor Daniel Proulx, so as to remove the special protections of Catholic and Protestant schools in Québec under Section 93 of the Constitution Act of 1867. Since these special protections were part of a solemn compact and historic compromise between Québec and Ontario at the formation of the federal Union, the authors believe that the Constitutional Amendment of 1997 was not lawfully adopted by the Parliament of Canada and the National Assembly of Québec in keeping with the true meaning of Section 43 of the Constitution Act of 1982. The authors proceed to examine the agenda underlying the report of Professor Jean-Pierre Proulx, and discover an obligatory teaching that all religions are equal and all religions are one, as traditionally proposed by the grand masters of Freemasonry, yet firmly condemned by Pope Leo XIII. Since such an agenda is inconsistent with the Catholic faith, the authors reject the claimed religious neutrality of the Proulx Report.The authors then examine the idea, assumed by Professor Jean-Pierre Proulx and Professor Daniel Proulx, that current laws of Québec, allowing religious teaching in the public schools of Québec, are prohibited by the clause on freedom of conscience and religion and the clause on equality of rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.The authors demonstrate that the clause on freedom of conscience and religion in the Canadian Charter derives from corresponding clauses in organic statutes earlier in force, and, in light of this legal context, it is evident that in Canada there is not now and never has been a prohibition to teaching religion in the public schools. The authors then show that the notion of "separation of church and state" borrowed from American jurisprudence by a few Canadian judges is based on a gross misunderstanding of American constitutional history. Nor is there in Canada a constitutional prohibition of laws establishing religion.On the contrary, the authors demonstrate that freedom of conscience and religion in the Canadian Charter should be read in light of the British Constitution, and that, therefore, it is perfectly constitutional to allow the teaching of religion in the public schools of Québec and across Canada.