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According to the spirit of the international conferences on Education for All, the concept of "collaboration between educational actors" remains a battle horse for the signatory countries to implement. The Democratic Republic of Congo, as a member, is doing its best to implement them. However, the ineffectiveness of its application in schools is holding back the achievement of the objective of eliminating gender disparities in secondary education in Haut-Uélé Province. The state acts as the main actor and designer; the school serves as a transmission belt; parents act as quasi-passive receivers. Based on a historical analysis of the involvement of parents in school management and a reading of the relevant national strategies, this paper aims to give an account of the difficulties of defining roles in the implementation of national strategies to promote the enrolment of girls in the said province. The study of the environment, the definition of roles, and respectful dialogue are the indispensable ways to materialise objective 5.

Keywords: Collaboration, Colaboración, Collaboration, school, escuela, école, padres, parents, parents, éducation, education, educación, fille, girl, niña

This article is about one of the most violent and visible form anti-LGBTQI activism in Sweden, conducted by Neo-Nazis. Through a critical discourse analysis of 189 texts published in Swedish newspapers and Neo-Nazi alternative media, it argues that contemporary Swedish Neo-Nazi anti-LGBTQI activism draws upon and constructs transnational heteroactivist discourses. They claim to “protect the nuclear family” to deflate accusations of homophobia while gaining substantial visibility through news media covering their actions. The findings demonstrate the three ways Neo-Nazi texts use heteroactivist strategies. First, the texts argue that LGBTQI rights and feminism are societally harmful.  Second, through intertextuality they refer to both local and international alternative media as the basis for their arguments. Third, they rationalise homophobic hatred. This paper contributes to discussions of heteroactivism, revealing the need to grapple with the ways it is intertwined with race and nationalism. Empirically, the analysis also highlights the significance of anti-LGBTQI activism in contemporary white power and extreme-right movements. The inclusion of news media texts that frame and represent heteroactivist strategies reveals that, despite their rationalising efforts, Neo-Nazi anti-LGBTQI activism is represented as homophobic and hateful in news and debate articles describing them. Additionally, news media representations of Neo-Nazi heteroactivist discourse present a nationalist contradiction, with authors re-constructing narratives of Sweden as a “LGBT friendly nation”, bringing to light complex relations between heteroactivism, homophobia, racism, and nationalism.

Keywords: Heteroactivism, homophobia, nationalism, homonationalism, Neo-Nazism, Sweden

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of key findings from systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the effect of leadership on mental health and well-being in the workplace, and to provide a critical analysis of their application to expatriated workers. The Medline, EMBASE, EBM and Web of Knowledge databases were accessed with keywords specific to leadership, mental health and well-being. The results show that despite the increase in studies to examine the effects of leadership on mental health in an organizational context, the issue remains understudied in international human resources management. To this end, recommendations are made to ensure that supervisors are better equipped to respond to situations where subordinates are deployed abroad.

Keywords: Métacritique, leadership, santé et mieux-être au travail, travailleurs expatriés

Total fertility rate is the indicator most often used to measure the fertility of immigrant women compared to native born women. But research shows that this indicator tends to overestimate the differences between immigrant and native born women, because the fertility level is affected by the woman's age at the time of migration. To overcome this problem, longitudinal approaches can be used, which take into account the part of the woman's fertile life preceding her migration. In Quebec, it is possible to estimate the fertility of immigrant women with the help of administrative registers, which follow cohorts of people over time. In this article we present the methodology used to estimate the number of children born before and after migration, and compare the fertility of immigrant women via their offspring in succeeding generations. The results show that the fertility of immigrant women to Quebec is influenced by the timing of their migration. Estimations of their offspring at different ages suggest that the average number of children varies with the region of origin but does not exceed two children per woman by the end of their reproductive lives.

Fundamental issues related to the knowledge of the nature of life, to the scientific and ethical limits of the human body's possibilities, but also to the limits between living beings and machines, humans and animals, are today in the center of important interdisciplinary debates.The purpose of this article is to investigate the unimagined potential of life that emerges with improvements in biotechnology by highlighting the aesthetics of the « recreated » and « reconstructed » bionic meta-body. I chose as a starting point a particular set of artworks that use biotechnology as their medium and field of inquiry.I present five « ideal-type » categories of aesthetic representations of bioart in ordrer to understand these artistic fictions in the actual biotechnological context. These five « tables of thought » are not absolute : translucent body, prostheses to the body (symbiosis of man and machine), trans-specific hybridities (encounters with the absolutely Other), culture of the « semi-living » (new skins and « bio-facts »), desire for ubiquity.

Keywords: biotechnologies, post-humain, hybridations, esthétiques du corps, bioart, biotechnology, posthuman, hybridizations, aesthetics of the body, bioart, biotecnologías, post-humano, hibridación, estéticas del cuerpo, bio-arte

SUMMARYIn most studies on the relationships between women's status and rural urban migration, African women are depicted as the passive agents or the victims of decisions made by their fathers and husbands. But times are changing. Rural urban migration can be a component of women's status. Women are now better educated, even in rural Africa, and better integrated into the modern way of life, and it is likely that they will be more and more engaged in rural Io urban migration in the next future. But in order to be integrated in the urban way of life and improve their living conditions, they need to be better skilled and/or have financial capital. Therefore, instead of implementing policies to avoid migration, policy makers must develop comprehensive strategies taking this migration dimension into account, in order to improve women's status.

This study focuses on obtaining a better understanding of the amount of data required by a crime linkage system to identify serial violent crimes. The key objective of the research was to empirically test and discuss the relevance of reducing the content necessary to use these tools. Data for the current study was extracted from a French violent crime linkage database (ViCLAS). Analysis focused on the most used variables in the context of a sexual assault. Descriptive and factorial analysis were used to identify what kind of information is collected by the police and how it could be reduced by aggregating correlated data. Findings show that approximately 65 % of the types of information collected are used in less than 5 % of sexual assault cases. Results of factorial analysis show that it is possible to drastically reduce the information needed to use the tool effectively. Practical implications of these findings for sexual assault investigations are discussed.

Keywords: Système de gestion des liens, réduction de données, agression sexuelle, efficacité des systèmes, Crime linkage system, data reduction, sexual crime, efficiency of systems, Sistema de gestión de los vínculos, reducción de datos, agresión sexual, eficacidad del sistema

This article examines the question of wether there is a way to enhance a teacher's capacity at using research and teaching reflectively which is grounded in a normative conception of what it means to educate a fellow human being. Practical argument, a notion derived from Aristote, is described as a strategy for helping teachers articulate and reconstruct their beliefs about their classroom actions such that they may decide to change their practical reasoning and consequent pratices. A case study of a teacher who participated in a practical argument process is presented. The authors conclude that this process allows teachers to take control of their justifications, and therefore take responsibility for their actions.

It is traditionally assumed that the United States of America long ago established a zone of influence in the Western hemisphere where its hegemony goes unchallenged. Thus, global organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and regional organizations such as the Organization of American States (OAS) should be ineffective bodies in mediating conflicts in this US sphere of influence. In this study, however, we find that Latin American international crises since 1947 have been characterized by a greater incidence of global organization activity than one would expect although UN intervention was not as important in abating conflict levels as the OAS and the USA. How can one explain this important global organization activity in light of the alleged us hegemony over the area, and whatfactors affect the effectiveness of its mediation in Latin America ? What lessons can be learned from these findings that can be applied to other conflict areas and for the future ? These findings may serve as a lesson for other regional organizations.