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This contribution explores the representation of space in the road novel Ourse Bleue from Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau. My hypothesis tends to illustrate the relationship between the two spatial representation networks, tributary to the mixed heritage of the main character, Victoria, a Metis of Cree origin whose spirituality takes from the Catholicism of her youth and a repressed animism, which she tries to rediscover. The journey back to the motherland (James Bay) offers a vision marked by a syncretism where the myths of the Promise Land and Mother Earth are juxtaposed. Both account for the dual movement of deterioration/reappropriation of memory and cultural references: the first is built around the sense of loss that inhabits the deserted landscape of her childhood; the second exploits a hermeneutics of the trace, where reclaiming her identity is in good part due to Victoria's capacity to interpret the clues of the land.

Keywords: Ourse bleue, roman de la route, espace, Nord, métissage, Ourse bleue, road novel, space, North, hybridity, Ourse bleue, road novel, espacio, Norte, mestizaje

Was the Quiet Revolution really feminist and secular? The author studies primary sources concerning the adoption of An Act respecting the legal capacity of married women (1964), the publication of the Parent report (1963-1966) and the journal Parti pris' fight for secularism. Adopting a poststructuralist feminist approach, the author deconstructs binaries that are common in contemporary historical feminist discourses: secularism/religion, equality/patriarchy, and modernity/tradition. She also demonstrates that secularist discourses circulated during the period 1960-1966, constructing an « us, Quebecers » that was an « us, descendants of catholic French-Canadians ». Christianity remained therefore a key identity reference.

Keywords: Révolution tranquille, religion, féminismes, femmes et histoire, nation, laïcité

As a part of a larger research project on single women, an analysis was conducted of three television series of Quebec origin whose protagonists were single career women in their thirties (i.e. Tout sur moi, Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin and C.A.). With sexual agency, sexual script theory (Gagnon and Simon 1973) and Bozon's (2001) intimate orientations as a theoretical framework, representations of the women's sexual lives were identified.The female characters adopted a wide variety of female sexual scripts in addition to some typically masculine scripts. Notably, they often initiated encounters and sexual contact. Two of the female characters showed signs of an “individual desire” intimate orientation, while the remaining character's orientation fit the “sexual network” type. Each nevertheless maintained aspects of a “conjugal sexuality” intimate orientation. While these television series present their female protagonist with multiple partners, they do so without confining them to the role of “easy woman” or other stereotypes. These series suggest that representations of the sexuality of single Quebec women are changing.

Keywords: femmes célibataires, téléséries québécoises, agentivité sexuelle, scripts sexuels, orientations intimes de soi

On the occasion of its 35th anniversary, the editors of the Revue internationale PME asked us, as its founders, to take stock of its career and its future. We return, on the one hand, to its role in the development of the discipline affecting this research theme, and on the other hand, to its foreseeable evolution in the coming years. This exercise allows us to stress once again the importance of such a theme not only because of the very large number of these enterprises in all economies, but because of their increasingly recognized impact on their development. In this article, we summarize the choices of themes chosen by researchers in the early years of the journal. Subsequently, we focus on the themes that were expanded in the following decade, marking in particular the specificity and complexity of the subject. To then make some projections on what is possibly coming in this world of SMEs. Finally, we stop at the scientific importance of French precisely for the enrichment of this science as for any other science.

Keywords: Revue internationale PME, RIPME, Naissance, Connaissance, Reconnaissance, Langue française, Revue internationale PME, RIPME, Birth or specificity, Knowledge, Recognition, French language, Revue internationale PME, RIPME, Nacimiento o especificidades, Conocimiento, Reconocimiento, Lengua francesa

SummaryThis article offers a sociological interpretation of the elements involved in the construction of autobiographies by dance artists. More particularly, it questions the role and the place of the body in the construction of self-history which gives an account of a past existence through dance. The irregularities of the latter tend to disappear due to the natural flow of autobiographical writing whereas descriptions of dance experiences, which structured the artist's career, reveal a series of disconnected moments all contributing to the development of the self, all coming together in the history told by the movements of the dancing body.

Teachers in professional and technical training usually live a hard period of professional transition during their beginning of teaching. We have tried to show how the educational intervention from beginning teachers of the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick results from a work of dialectization of a set of contexts: educational, professionals and personals. We adopted a mixed methodology using quantitative inquiry and qualitative interviews across the five campuses of the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick. Our results show the teacher as a subject in transition, trying to reach a state of balance between the subject in formation and the many contexts through which he evolves. His professional transition is articulated through back and forth movements between skill development and identity construction, surrounding the moment of educative intervention. We thus propose a model of this articulation that could be used to analyze educational intervention in its situational perspective.

Keywords: formation professionnelle, savoir-enseigner, nouveaux enseignants, intervention éducative, moment, professional training, teaching skills, new teachers, educational intervention, moment, formación profesional, saber enseñar, nuevos formadores, intervención educativa, momento

This article addresses the play Hosanna by Michel Tremblay and its English translation by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco in Toronto during the 1970s. By entering the workshop of translation, we propose that of the two linguistic and cultural elements that marked the audiences of Hosanna, the Montreal sociolect joual and the queer subject matter, the second was less privileged in the work of the translators. We turn to the intersection between queer studies, translation of sociolects, and genetics of translation to show that where the translators sometimes linger on the queer aspects of the play, they mostly work, draft after draft, on constructing a language for Tremblay's characters.

Keywords: traduction théâtrale, génétique de la traduction, queer, joual, Canada, theatre translation, genetics of translation, queer, joual, Canada

The discourse on information technologies and high tech contributes to a definition of “highly qualified skilled labour” that excludes many aspects and sets of skills, including many professions that have highly qualified workers. For example, the definition does not incorporate the different structures and dynamics of the working world, deals with problems concerning high-skill jobs at too abs- tract a level, and disregards the social and cultural processes that contribute to the definition of this term. Ethnographic data drawn from a field research assignment allow to outline the parameters of a new definition of highly skilled labour that is more aligned with the realities of the working world.

AbstractStarting from the hypothesis that the sociology of networks provides a more appropriate theoretical framework than that of the literary field for insight into concrete relations between authors, we explore a few concepts arising out of the analysis of networks that provide considerable heuristic potential, including those of social capital, centrality and structural autonomy. Thus, the case of the relations between André Laurendeau and La Relève shows that the former played a central role in the magazine's network, although without ever having been considered as a full participant. The identification of this external centrality in return reveals a characteristic of Laurendeau's socialization work ; he continually built up ties between groups, thus giving himself unsurpassed autonomy in the French-Canadian intellectual circles of the period.

SummaryThis paper presents results from a qualitative study regarding the opinions of four professors in a practicum supervisory role who have shared their experiences of accompanying immigrant students in training through a semi-structured interview. The role of the practicum supervisory professor, the process experienced by immigrant students in training, the challenges encountered, the specific needs of the students and the support provided will be presented in this paper. Implications for further research and for promoting practicum success and integration of these students in the profession will also be discussed.

Keywords: étudiants immigrants stagiaires, professeurs superviseurs de stage, formation à l'enseignement, accompagnement en stage, apprentissage par transformation, immigrant students, practicum supervisory professors, teacher education, practicum accompaniment, transformative learning, estudiantes inmigrantes en formación práctica, profesores supervisores de formación práctica, formación docente, acompañamiento en formación práctica, aprendizaje por transformación