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Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the perceptions of Indigenous medical students on postgraduate admissions through an Indigenous admissions pathway (IAP), and to determine what factors may influence Indigenous medical students’ choice of residency training program.Methods: We distributed a survey to self-identified Indigenous students at settler Canadian medical schools. The survey questioned the students’ acceptability of an IAP, and what factors would influence application through an IAP. Analysis included descriptive statistics and thematic analysis of open-ended questions.Results: Thirty-six participants responded to the survey. Location and proximity to family or support system were the most important factors in choosing a residency program. Participants identified mentorship from Indigenous physicians and community involvement as being important features of a residency program that has an IAP. Eighty-one percent of participants felt the availability of an IAP would influence their choice of residency program. Fear of judgement or stigma, concern about entrance requirements, and program logistics were identified as barriers to applying to residency through an IAP. All participants believed that an IAP would have a positive influence on the healthcare system more broadly.Conclusions: An IAP appears to be an acceptable residency application format to Indigenous students but cannot exist in isolation. It is important for programs to consider the needs and safety of Indigenous trainees within residency programs.
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The pandemic has exacerbated structural (e.g., unemployment, precariousness) and psychological (e.g. fear of the future) uncertainties and has made it possible to highlight in the media a sector already under strain, that of health. Starting from this double observation, the study looked at the effects of this crisis and its perceived media treatment on students in this sector. How have their motivation for continuing their studies and their career objectives, as well as their perceptions of work and of themselves, been re-examined? In addition, in line with studies on the role of perceived social support (PSS) in training retention, this variable was also taken into account. At the beginning of 2021, a survey by questionnaire (44 questions, including 15 open-ended) was carried out in France of 170 health students. The following were explored: academic and professional motivation, PSS, concern about the future, self-efficacy beliefs, professional perceptions, and perceptions of media treatment of the health sector. The results indicate that the students studying exclusively or partially online experience a drop in their motivation to study but maintain a strong motivation to carry out their career objectives. Unlike the PSS, perceived media treatment does not appear to be linked to the different variables studied across the entire sample. Finally, the group of students wishing to abandon their studies (n = 13) is characterized by a lower PSS and a more fragile motivation than the rest of the sample. This group also takes a more negative view of the treatment of the health sector by the media. In addition to comparing the results obtained with those of a Quebec survey, the discussion focuses on the practical implications.
Keywords: Health students, Étudiant en santé, Choice of path, Choix de parcours, Perceived media treatment, Traitement médiatique perçu, Soutien social perçu, Perceived social support, Covid-19, Covid-19
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The text aims to think about the middle class and its role in the 2018 presidential elections, which took Jair Messias Bolsonaro, from the Social Liberal Party (PSL), to the Planalto Palace. As a main thesis, the text argues that the middle class does not have a class identity of its own and thus assimilates the cultural references of the upper classes. As a consequence of this absence of its own ideology, the middle class, in an attempt to differentiate itself, demonstrates prejudice against the popular classes. To understand this issue, the text is divided into three moments. Initially, a historical analysis of the formation of the middle class is made; then the emergence of the “new” middle class is discussed; in a third moment, the perception of the middle class about the global economic crisis that started in 2008 is presented.
Keywords: Bolsonaro, Brésil, Élection Bolsonaro, Classe moyenne, Subjectivité, Brazil, Bolsonaro election, Middle class, Subjectivity
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This article details what led the authors to translate the first literary fiction ever published in a Canadian Indigenous language, namely the language of the Inuit. Entitled Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut, this text by Markoosie Patsauq appeared in 1969-1970 in the magazine Inuktitut. Our research has shown that this text has never been translated, in the rigorous sense of the term. The book Harpoon of the Hunter, published in 1970 by McGill-Queen's University Press and signed by Markoosie Patsauq himself, is an adaptation, commissioned and edited by children's author James H. McNeill. Prior to our examination of the original manuscript, all translations and research on Markoosie Patsauq's work had been based on the English adaptation, without any consideration of the circumstances surrounding that adaptation's publication, or the meaning of the Inuktitut text. One translator, however, felt that our translations showed a lack of respect for Markoosie Patsauq, terming our project "colonialist". We respond to this accusation with an example of our work based on the sole original manuscript.
Keywords: Markoosie Patsauq, Markoosie Patsauq, Inuktitut, littérature autochtone, adaptation, Indigenous literatures, adaptation, colonialisme, colonialism, Inuktitut
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Decades of neoliberal capitalism have had a corrosive effect on public education, with implications for both the fiscal realities of education systems and the ideological values guiding curriculum and pedagogy. While the culture of neoliberalism has often been studied, it is equally important to expand analyses of the shifting material conditions of how capital moves through education systems, reshapes power, and exacerbates inequality. It is also, I argue, vitally important to document—to be mindful—of how the affordances of the present, once eroded, diminish the imaginings of what is possible in the future. To that end, in this special issue, we highlight the twin realities of neoliberalism. We also make the argument for public education, imperfect though its current iterations may be, as a valuable inheritance of public good.
Keywords: neoliberalism, capitalism, education
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Beginning with my 1999 account in The Philosophy of Argument, this essay explores views about adversariality in argument. Although my distinction between minimal and ancillary adversariality is widely accepted, there are flaws in my defense of the claim that all arguments exhibit minimal adversariality and in a lack of sensitivity to aspects of gender and culture. Further discussions of minimal adversariality, including those of Scott Aikin, John Casey, Katharina Stevens and Daniel Cohen, are discussed. The claim that all argument are adversarial in at least a minimal sense is defended due to its connection with arguers’ intent to support their conclusions.
Keywords: argument, adversariality, dialogue, feminism, politeness, culture
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