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This article is concerned with the question of immigrant families who have settled in regions of Quebec that are considered homogeneous, that is, that have traditionally witnessed little immigrant presence. A study conducted in two Quebec regions, Estrie, and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, allows for examination of several areas of misunderstanding between immigrants and workers in the field of social services: the family, history, and change. Following this analyis, the article presents an approach to situated intercultural intervention that takes these dimensions into account. This approach makes it possible to identify the educational focuses that should be developed to enable all students to open up to intercultural realities.
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The Irish in Newfoundland have developed their culture and identity over the past 300 years in the context of the island's changing political status from independent territory, to British colony, and to Canadian province (since 1949). Newfoundland song, dance and dialect all display evident Irish features and have played an important role in the marketing of the province as a tourist destination. Recent provincial government initiatives to forge contacts with Celtic Tiger Ireland and thus revive this powerfully “imagined” Atlantic network have also contributed to the notion of the “Irishness” of Newfoundland culture. The narrative of Newfoundland as an Irish place, however, has always been (and continues to be) contested; this is most evident in a local discourse of space and place that is grounded in two predominant narratives of the Newfoundland nation: Republican and Confederate. The author illustrates how this contested spatial discourse has recently played out over the disputed terrain of the The Rooms, the new home of Newfoundland's provincial museum, art gallery and archives.
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The cliché is still lively: historians, as is well known, tend to portray themselves as craftsmen or artisans, mastering a practical know-how learned patiently through hands-on experience with dusty documents, and showing a conspicuous disdain towards theory and abstractions. This image deserves closer scrutiny. It is interesting that despite this insistence on the craftlike image of the profession, there seems to be a lack of ethnographic investigations of historians at work that would precisely pay attention to the craftiness of history and the multiple practicalities of doing history across different contexts. The idea that historians just do what they do sounds simple enough, but as is the case with any “craft,” from basket weaving to hunting in the rainforest, it is hardly self-evident, either technically or sociologically. To be sure, there are plenty of biographies, autobiographies, “ego-histories,” methodological primers and epistemological essays that tackle and debate the problems of the working historian, but these reflexive narratives remain essentially vertical. Taking our cue from some of the recent developments in science studies and the anthropology of science, we would like to propose in this article a program for a horizontal study of historians, that would be independent of their own reflexive discourse and symmetric in its explanations, and that would be attentive to the varieties of their existence and their becoming in a community of practice.
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In our increasingly digitalized society, do we really have a choice about whether or not to adopt technology? How does this digitalization impact the elderly in particular and their ecosystem? What are the ethical issues raised by this digitalization? This text aims to provide some food for thought in relation to these issues from the perspective of various experts in the fields of technology, aging and bioethics. These experts met during a symposium held in Angers, France, in October 2019. The text is a report of the exchanges and points of view of these experts, as well as of the open discussions they had with the audience, on the main issues raised by this digitalization from the perspective of the elderly, family caregivers, caregivers, society and research.
Keywords: vieillissement, technologie, société, éthique, aging, technology, society, ethics
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This paper analyses technology-enhanced teaching and learning (TET/TEL) design in the context of in-service teacher training. It is presented as a creative (Glăveanu, 2015, 2020), agentive (Sannino, 2015) activity to help teachers transform teaching and learning and address the challenge of integrating digital technology and education in the classroom (Giraudon et al., 2020). Mainly based on third generation (Engeström, 2001, 2009) of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and in line with epistemological pluralism (Turkle & Papert, 1990), this study also draws upon contributions in didactics and cognitive sciences. It develops the theoretical argument leading to a formative intervention (Engeström, 2011) inspired by the Change Laboratory methodology (Virkkunen & Newnham, 2013). The Change Laboratory is aimed at co-designing TET/TEL scenarios for teachers and thus to model a new concept (Engeström & Sannino, 2010) for teaching and learning. To support this process, teachers are assisted by a card deck as a design artefact. The cards represent the potential components of a TET/TEL scenario.
Keywords: learning design activity, activité de conception, creativity, créativité, transformative agency, agentivité transformatrice, digital education, intégration du numérique, formation des enseignants, teacher education, théorie de l'activité, cultural-historical activity theory
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This article is a study of letters written by American children to authors of juvenile fiction. It emphasizes the rhetorical and material choices children made in bridging the distance between themselves as writers and the authors who were to receive the letters. Focused on notions of convention, the study uses the theoretical concept of the slant to analyze the way the child writers conformed to conventions of writing and communication while also rendering those expectations askew. Ultimately, the stylistic techniques and content choices reveal methods children used to cocreate a world with the authors to whom they wrote.
Keywords: letter writing, children's writing, archives, writing style, friendship
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This article conceptualizes the semiosis of collapse in humanities research. In the first part, I review the history of collapse in modern Western culture and its importance in various discursive spheres at the beginning of the 21st century. In the second part, I propose a definition of what a semiosis of collapse would be, its analytical potentialities and the posture it seems to require towards the text. In the third part, in order to show the potentialities of this semiosis, I analyse various collapses in Hubert Aquin's Prochain Épisode. Three analytical orientations emerge: a semiological one, on the economy of signs linked to collapse; a narratological one, on the ontological collapse of the narrator; a morphological one, on the relation between collapse and difference.
Keywords: Collapsologie, Collapsology, Littérature, literature, effondrement, collapse, différend, Hubert Aquin, dispute, sémiose, semiosis, Hubert Aquin
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Transcultural psychiatry is at the confluence of culture, mental health and illness. It places the patient at the centre of the relationship while respecting his or her individual and collective way of thinking and doing. Culture defines ontological representations, explanatory models and therapeutic practices which influence expressions of suffering and specific modes of coping and healing, as diverse as the cultures from which they arise. Yet, Western psychiatry is just as indivisible from the culture from which it emerged, which brings up the question of mental suffering and care in transcultural situations. Transcultural psychiatry brings the clinician to question and widen his or her clinical practice with regards to social, geopolitical and historical issues which colour the bonds in the social fabric, in power imbalances and in access to health care for individuals of cultural minorities. How can we make our consultations with patients from different parts of the world and who speak different languages ethical? How should one care for patients when faced with cultural otherness? And what are the effects on the mental health of today's youth, who are raised in global societies which generate complex identity challenges that can lead to radicalization? This article offers some answers to these clinical and ethical questions through the hybridization of representations, in order to ensure a harmonious coexistence and a renewed creativity, for an “ethos of solidarity” in mental health care.
Keywords: transculturel, altérité, complémentarité, psychiatrie, radicalisation, transcultural, otherness, complementarity, psychiatry, radicalization
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All societies are plural but no two societies experience plurality in exactly the same way, especially when it comes to pluralist practice and policy. In the context of a research project on intercultural relations in the urban context of Montreal, we have identified three different orientations or approaches to pluralist thought and practice : the recognition of diversity, the fight against discrimination and rapprochement through dialogue. Using these categories, I propose an analytical model that makes it possible to understand tensions between various social actors involved in the promotion of intercultural policies and programs in Montreal. I begin by using this model to analyze the funding of intercultural projects at the municipal level. Then I explore how these tensions play out in the context of collaborative efforts between researchers, community-based organizers and city planners. Finally, I discuss the notions complementarity and explicitation in order to show how a pluralist analysis can facilitate communication and reinforce pluralist approaches more generally.
Keywords: White, pluralisme, villes interculturelles, approche systémique, diversité, discrimination, dialogue, Montréal, White, Pluralism, Intercultural Cities, Systemic Approach, Diversity, Discrimination, Dialogue, Montréal, White, pluralismo, ciudades interculturales, enfoque sistemático, diversidad, discriminación, dialogo, Montreal