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The interview is a privileged methodological research tool. We applied it in the context of our doctoral work to shed light on the temporalities in the construction of the professional identity of trainee teachers. If the research interview has a heuristic aim for the researcher, what impact does it have on the interviewee? The discourse produced during the interviews enabled us to gain access to the experiences of the work-study students in the process of professionalization and shed light on the way in which they articulated work and training. Because our results indicate that the exchanges also brought out the meaning of certain situations for the trainees, we hypothesise that the research interview thus contributed to their professional development.
Keywords: Research interview, Entretien de recherche, professional identity, Enseignants stagiaires, Rapports travail/formation, Trainee teachers, Work/training relationships, Développement professionnel, Identité professionnelle, Professional developement, Professional identity
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In France, the strict measures to limit COVID‑19 contagion risks have dramatically increased “the loneliness of the dying” (Norbert Elias). These measures have also had severe repercussions on funeral rituals. This article uses philosophical anthropology to reflect on the events of 2020-2021, based on contemporary literature in medicine and sociology. It discusses the need to find meaning in deaths suffered during the epidemic. It suggests a parallel between the current organization of commemorative events for epidemic victims and the aftermath of mass death during wars; both are meant to compensate for survivors' trauma. Shouldn't the true meaning of the pandemic be to analyze these processes rather than celebrating a collective confrontation with a virus?
Keywords: épidémies, champ d'honneur, contagion, martyre, accompagnement des mourants, rituels funéraires, epidemics, field of honour, contagion, martyrdom, care for the dying, funeral rituals, epidemia, campo de honor, contagio, martirio, acompañar al moribundo, rituales funerarios
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AbstractIn this article, Pamela V. Sing examines writing that brings forth the importance of the connection between one's native or ancestral language and identity, even in speakers whose use of language is highly diglossic. The three writers studied here—Paulette Dubé, Sharon Proulx-Turner, and Joe Welsh—are historically linked with Western Canada's 19th-century Franco-Métis, whose culture and mores were subjected to harsh stigmatization beginning in 1885, the year in which the Métis were defeated at the Battle of Batoche and Louis Riel was put to death, having been convicted of high treason. For nearly a century—the years of the “great silence“—the Métis were Canada's forgotten people, and when they returned to public life, it was as English-speakers, for whom many of the ancestral traditions that defined their culture had slipped into oblivion. Contemporary writers of Franco-Métis ancestry engage in writing that, by recalling certain aspects of their heritage, subverts the reductive and demeaning stereotypes that have been inflicted on the Métis people for many long years. One manifestation of this trend is a culinary discourse that functions by transforming a cultural practice into a cultural code. Because the recollection of traditional dishes almost inevitably calls on words from the ancestral language, the resulting writings are hybrid texts, written primarily in English, but interspersed with tidbits of a primordial language that is both unforgettable and imperfectly remembered. The resulting writing is a meeting of two languages that is astonishingly poetic, innovative and traditional all at once.
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Jean-René Ladmiral is well-known in translation circles not only as a translation studies scholar and a translator of German philosophy (in particular of Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School, but also of Kant and Nietzsche), and as a philosopher as well. As such, he has examined the epistemology of social sciences in an interdisciplinary perspective. In this interview, he calls on different schools of psychology and, in particular, on psychoanalysis to discuss the epistemological basis of research in translation studies. In his view, philosophy, psychoanalysis and translation studies are three reflexive disciplines, that is, they reflect on what one experiences, thinks or does. He speaks in favour of what he calls “une traductologie productive,” whose interest lies not in analyzing existing translations but rather the process of translation, and this is why he makes reference to psychology. Translation studies would be situated at the junction of linguistics and comparative literature, with philosophy towering above and psychology as its base. All social sciences and cultural studies are ultimately related to this field of research. For Jean-René Ladmiral it tends to take on the scope of an interdisciplinary anthropology of translation.
Keywords: entretien, épistémologie de la traduction, psychologie, psychanalyse, interview, epistemology of translation, psychology, psychoanalysis
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ABSTRACTThe author proposes a review of three major theoreticians whose works are considered to be the corner-stones of theatrical studies : Aristotle, whose Poetics, the first reflexion on Occidental theatre, also serve as the foundation of the aesthetics of drama, and, closer to us, Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht who, although unanimous in rejecting the Aristotelian theory, have quite different views on contemporary theatre. Their definitions are analyzed in the light of mimesis and catharsis, which are not taken here as separate notions, but rather as a mean of grasping the fluctuant outlines of the concept of "reality", be it Aristotle's obedience to a strict narrative structure, Artaud's denial of culture or Brecht's political commitment.
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The author investigates bodily norms affecting dancing bodies, recalling the question which bodies matter in contemporary dance. Contrary to ballet, which seeks to harmonize bodies, contemporary dance draws on somatic heterogeneity. Marginal bodies, traditionally excluded from ballet, are also given access to the stage through contemporary dance performance (black, overweight, disabled bodies). The author demonstrates, however, that these « atypical » bodies only gain visibility through stigmatic thematization. The marks of exclusion are explored from an ethnographic fieldwork in Switzerland, supported by examples from later surveys in Scotland, Montreal and Paris. Crossing choreographers' discourses and performances' observations, the author questions the politics of representation and body's agency.
Keywords: corps exposés, danse contemporaine, ethnographie, exclusion, bio-pouvoir, cuerpos expuestos, danza contemporánea, etnografía, exclusión, biopoder
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This article aims to recall the significance of the ‘relationship to memory' in cinematic and audio-visual media in Sub-Saharan Africa in contrast to the often ideological uses which have been made of a ‘relationship to history'. The article begins by reconsidering attempts to represent history by directors such as Ousmane Sembène, Med Hondo and Haile Gerima, by analysing these representations within the framework of political discourse of legitimization. Then, this article attempts to situate this discourse within the critical and theoretical literature which have appeared in relation to African cinema since the 1970s; thus the question is to determine limitations which must necessarily be assigned to this discourse of political legitimization, within a theoretical framework which includes a ‘methodological-epistemological' point of view as well as an aesthetical one. The article then reconsiders some African films made since the 1990s in which a ‘relationship to memory' was involved. The article concludes that, in discourse about African media, the danger has always been more on the side of the political legitimization of a certain relationship to history the symbolical and aesthetical relationship to memory.
Keywords: Cinéma africain, médias audiovisuels africains, histoire et mémoire, méthodologie et épistémologie, légitimation politique, mondialisation, African cinema, African audio-visual media, history and memory, methodology and epistemology, political legitimization, globalization
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Mixed research was conducted to uncover the ethical concerns that confronted college teachers in the course of their work. Using data from eight discussion groups, a questionnaire was developed and sent online to permanent and full time teachers working for Quebec's francophone college system, to which 1,340 teachers responded. The data collected made it possible to identify ethical concerns considered by professors to be strong or very strong with respect to students, colleagues, administrative boards, themselves, teaching and the profession.
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For nearly a century, the field of “Franco-Albertan literature” meant the works of chiefly one writer. Up until the 1950s, that writer was Georges Bugnet, who originally from France, settled in Alberta soon after the latter became a province of Canada. From 1960 until the end of the century, Francophone Alberta's writer was Marguerite-A. Primeau, who, born in the northern Albertan village of Saint-Paul-des-Métis, settled in Vancouver in 1954. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Alberta's Francophone community has begun to come into its own, not only demographically, but also institutionally and culturally. This is reflected in the increased number of its literary artists, defined in this article as Francophones either born in Alberta, or who, originally from another part of the Francophone world, live and write in Alberta, or lived and wrote in Alberta. Compared to Franco-Manitoban, Franco-Ontarian or Acadian writers, Franco-Albertan writers are relatively few in number, but in terms of Francophone Alberta's history, things are on the move. The community is at present less worried about survival issues and more concerned with questions related to its recognition. Whom do they seek to be recognized by? How are they going about obtaining that recognition? This article attempts to offer some elements of response to those questions while claiming a particularly important role for literary production.
Keywords: Vitalité et reconnaissance, communauté et littérature, Far Ouest francophone, Vitality and recognition, community and literature, Francophone far West
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This paper returns to the roots of European Humanism to rediscover the moral and political base for contemporary narrative inquiry. A brief analytical review is conducted of forms of artistic representation from C15th/C16th Florentine painting to reveal steps taken to use narrative form in the pursuit and advocacy of humanist method. This is placed within the frame of a Ricoeur (1989) four-stage typology for narrative method. The paper closes with an argument that social and educational research should be guided by Humanist principles in its aims, but also in its method – Humanist in intent, Humanist in substance.
Keywords: Narrative, Curriculum, Curriculum Inquiry, Humanism, Renaissance