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The digital age offers new possibilities for providing accessible and understandable communications for people with low literacy skills, including those with intellectual disability. However, information designers face several challenges when undertaking such process. This article discusses the Design science approach of an interdisciplinary research team in developing digital information, through the example of videos. During a focus-group discussion, the participants identified facilitators and barriers encountered during the process of video production.

Keywords: Littératie, numérique, science du design, concepteurs, accès à l'information, situation de handicap, Literacy, Digital, Design Science, Designers, Information Access, handicap

The literature presents a portrait of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) by persons with intellectual disability (ID). However, the evolution of ICT use among these individuals over time is not documented. The objective of this study is to trace the evolution of adults with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) who participated in a training program on the use of the iPad for 12 months. The results show an evolution in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) among all participants, regardless of their initial level of familiarity. In addition, with appropriate support, people with ID can develop their digital autonomy and thus be more self-determined in their use of ICTs.

Keywords: technologie de l'information et de la communication (TIC), trisomie 21, déficience intellectuelle, adultes, trajectoire d'apprentissages, programme de formation, information and communication technology (ICT), down syndrome, intellectual disabilities, adults, learning trajectory, training program

This article, focusing on the anthropology of work, contends that HR professionals interpret and represent the gendered nature of human resources management in accordance with gender relations that permeate the entire social field. Employing an ethnographic and historical perspective, it demonstrates the ways in which the HR world reproduces and sustains a system, both symbolic and social, that divides the masculine from the feminine principles, and sets one above the other. Two facets of gender hierarchization, both arising in HR experts' identity discourse, are explored: one is the differential value granted to the “feminine” character of the profession, and the other is the role gender categorization plays in promoting a liberal concept of the individual. The author suggests that citing presumed natural gender differences as an explanation for the subordinate status of HR careers in the business world is in fact a mechanism for revealing, solidifying and replicating gender relations.

Keywords: anthropologie du travail, gestion des ressources humaines, femmes en gestion, identité professionnelle, rapports de sexe, sujet libéral, anthropology of work, human resource management, women in management, professional identity, gender relations, liberal subject

This article reflects on the possibilities and limitations of a feminist legal anthropology based on the author's experience elaborating anthropological expert witness reports through activist-research methodologies. She analyzes her experience as an expert witness in the defense of imprisoned indigenous women, in particular through her participation in the case of Commander Nestora Salgado García, a member of the Regional Coordination of Communal Authorities – Community Police (CRAC-PC) in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, unjustly imprisoned for her participation as an authority in an indigenous justice system.

Keywords: Droits des femmes, femmes autochtones, Mexique, anthropologie juridique féministe, expertises anthropologiques

Founded in 1963, the Quebec Human Rights League (LDHQ) is mostly known for its demands for a Quebec Human Rights Charter in the 1970s. This period is also marked by the progressive integration and defense of women's rights at the League. Unknow, this evolution is linked to the work of women activists who try to make room for women's rights in the League's program and activities. These women promote a feminist project and try to invest the League's structures despite the barriers that muzzle their voices.

Keywords: division sexuelle du travail, droits de la personne, militantisme, féminisme, histoire des femmes

Background. Parents of children with an ID or autism generally report higher stress than parents of typically developing children. Few studies however have explored this situation in Quebec. Method. Four groups of 144 parents (having a child without ID and autism; ID; autism; ID and autism) completed measures on parental stress, availability of social support, their perceptions on the helpfulness of these supports and on their child's characteristics. Results. Results of a one-way ANOVA and planned contrasts indicated that parents of children with ID and autism had the highest reported stress levels, followed by the autism group, the ID group and the group without ID or autism. Children with ID and autism have more behavior problems, less adaptive behaviors and less social abilities. Their parents are the ones who are given more support but also those who report the lowest satisfaction levels with respect to the support received.

There has been growing momentum in academic research in Spain on the social and cooperative economy. Since the late 1980s, the number of researchers working in this field has grown, and a research network has developed. The authors first examine the process by which research becomes institutionalized through the “research-education-innovation” system. As the Spanish experience shows, these developments foster new research, its dissemination and motivate researchers to work in the field. The article then presents the state of research on the social economy in Spain by listing the researchers on the social economy and the dissertations defended in Spanish universities. The article thus shows the main topics and areas of research, how interest in the different parts of the social economy has evolved in the last thirty years, and which universities have produced the most research. The study is introduced by Edith Archambault, who draws a parallel with the research on the social economy in other countries such as France and Canada.

This article presents the results of a hermeneutic phenomenological study on the meaning teachers give to their experiences as cultural transmitters in minority French-language schools. Focusing on teachers' perceptions of who they are, this study looks at the influence of their language and cultural socialization on their attitude to culture on the pedagogical level. The results reveal the importance of teachers' reflections on their own ethnolinguistic development, as well as on their pedagogical practices to help them guide their students in their francophone ethnolinguistic identity building.

Keywords: passeur culturel, rapport à la culture, milieu francophone minoritaire, phénoménologie herméneutique, construction identitaire, cultural transmitter, phenomenological study, cultural development, francophone ethnolinguistic identity building, puente cultural, relación con la cultura, contexto francófono minoritario, fenomenología hermenéutica, construcción de la identidad

AbstractFrom both a historical and critical retrospective of the issues related to interdisciplinary training of teachers, this text provides a "re-reading" of two research projects in Brazil in the last 10 years. The first, interested in the daily practices of five professors of didactics in various teacher-training institutions, examined their own philosophies and their teaching. The second explored the difficulties in attempting to integrate interdisciplinary preoccupations into the public school system based on teacher training. In this article, interdisciplinarity is strongly associated with an attitude toward research and toward adapting alternative teaching practices.