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The pandemic of 2020 has renewed interest in technology as an integrative agent in higher education. However, advancements in technology continue to outpace the scholarship of integration in SoTL, even though Ernest Boyer valued it as a continuous area of study. This article calls for a reconsideration of Boyer’s appreciation of integration as convergence or intertextuality. Intertextuality and its digital correlate, hypertextuality, operationalize online education. Yet, they are often ignored as models of convergence. This relational paradox signals a need for a discourse and framework that help us to conceptualize the inherently integrative nature of knowledge and online education. To address this deficit, this literature review introduces Peircean architectonics as the paradigm that reframes our understanding of convergence and illuminates its actualization in Terry Anderson’s prototype for online education. Architectonic logic enriches this model and provides us with a philosophy of convergence that revalues and advances the scholarship of integration.
Keywords: Architectonique, Architectonics; Digital interdisciplinarity; Intertextuality; Online education theory, Interdisciplinarité numérique, Intertextualité, Théorie de l'éducation en ligne
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Anthropology has a major advantage among social sciences, which is its qualitative method (long-term fieldwork in natural settings), but it suffers from its past, when it was focused on so called “primitive peoples”, and fascinated by exoticism and traditionality. Africanist anthropology is in many ways typical of that inheritage, not open enough to new topics and new concepts, prisoner of a culturalist ideology, and too much frighten by interdisciplinarity or collaboration with action-oriented research. Studying modernity, syncretism and change calls for innovation and borrowing to other disciplines. Medical anthropology in Northern countries, for instance, has evolved in this direction since the seventies, under the influence of public health topics, while fighting to preserve its independence. But in Africa it's only recently that medical anthropologists have taken modern health units and health professionals as legitimate topics for research, and have engaged in a dialogue with practitioners in the perspective of reforming the health system. But, on a conceptual level, public health is not actually helpful, and anthropologist should produce grounded theories and fresh concepts, sometimes with the help of other disciplines.
Keywords: Olivier de Sardan, anthropologie, santé publique, objets de recherche, concepts, réformes, disciplines, innovation, Olivier de Sardan, Anthropology, Public Health, Medical Anthropology, Concepts, Reforms, Interdisciplinarity, Innovation, Olivier de Sardan, antropología, salud pública, objetos de investigación, conceptos, reformas, disciplinas, innovación
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From its beginnings, historical knowledge has been shaped by certain key metaphors. These metaphors convey notions of the passage of time and historical change, and their heuristic potential is significant. With regard to the history of cultural life, the usual metaphors have gradually lost their appeal and their relevance; they are no longer «living,» or “vives” (Ricoeur). After briefly examining various older metaphors, this article proposes a new one, that of turbulence. Its metaphorical potential is explored in light of relevant studies in the field of fluid dynamics, and some theoretical applications are proposed in light of selected questions from the history of cultural life in Quebec.
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Keywords: Abduction, pragmatisme, doute, croyance, recherche qualitative
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AbstractThe role of the social worker is decisive in preventing, detecting and dealing with child neglect and psychological abuse. One of the difficulties when facing a group with cultic drifts consists in identifying and integrating the particular features of this context, so as to avoid methodological errors which might cover up, complexity or otherwise worsen the situation. The social worker has to point out factually, according to a methodologically flawless socio-educational evaluation, the danger, neglect or abuse with which the child is confronted. Moreover, a cultic drifts context may expose not only the child or the parents, but the professional as well to some form of violence. The subsequent trouble sometimes cause anxiety and a kind of mental confusion to the social workers, who may feel they are losing their professional skills, knowledge or practical experience. To be relevant and efficient, they must avoid the double trap of the religious ground which would prove both fruitless and illegitimate to them. They must look further into assessment methodologies suitable for unusual and fringe contexts, so as to learn how to relate to varying standards, alternative educational norms and perspectives on the parental function, with the risk of erroneous appreciation. Lastly, they will have to consider their own implication. This article tries to identify and present those methodological problems, and then to describe four attitude types among social workers coping with such situations which may sound unusual and disturbing to them.
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