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This study focuses on school objects from the perspective of the recollection of the students who used them. The data come from the responses to a survey about the favourite school object and the reasons for choosing it. The 285 objects mentioned by the 252 respondents were first grouped into 12 categories according to the object and then according to their social or cultural nature. The reasons given for the choice were classified into four categories to facilitate the analysis of the emotions elicited by these objects. The main results show that school objects are more than objects, they communicate ideas, imply values, and provoke emotions. Objects should be analysed in terms of their use and the reasons why they are remembered, which often involve personal relationships. New ways of approaching memories of these objects by educational historians are suggested.
Keywords: material culture, cultura material, culture matérielle, history of education, historia de la educación, histoire de l'éducation, cultura escolar, culture scolaire, school culture, élèves, pupils, alumnos, tournant affectif, affective turn, giro afectivo
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This study focused on the development and validation of the Sense of Online Community Scale (SOCS), which includes 28 Likert-type scale items across six subscales: (a) program community, (b) program academic activities, (c) program social activities, (d) institutional academic activities, (e) institutional social activities, and (f) affiliation. The validation process included an implementation with 293 learners enrolled in online programs at a higher education institution in the eastern United States. The model was evaluated with and without outliers, and results show that the model aligned well with the SOCS. The means of all items except one exceeded 3.5 on a 5.0 scale, ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Time in an online program was not a statistically significant predictor of the validation model, though most of our participants were in the first or second year of their degree programs. Findings demonstrate that the SOCS is a reliable and valid instrument that other researchers may use to investigate community in online environments on both the program and the institutional level.
Keywords: online community, online students, online learning, confirmatory factor analysis, higher education
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The majority of studies on the student-teacher relationship (TSR) have been conducted mainly with primary and secondary students. Studies of post-secondary students are much less numerous, despite the importance of the impact the TSR can have on them. The goal is to explore the scientific literature that focuses specifically on the measurement of the TSR in order to identify the relevant assessment tools for the post-secondary context. The results show that the majority of researchers use self-reported questionnaires to measure the concept of TSR. However, there is no consensus on how to operationalize this concept. For some authors, TSR is a multidimensional construct, while others suggest the possibility of a two-dimensional or even a one-dimensional construct.
Keywords: Teacher-student relationship, Relation pédagogique, postsecondary, postsecondaire, measuring tools, outils de mesure
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Keywords: collaboration école-famille-communauté, organisme communautaire et école, camp éducatif, élèves récemment immigré·e·s, apprentissage du français, intégration socioculturelle
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This paper studies the variation across countries in mortality rates due to COVID-19. A two-stage approach is used to model international data on the spread of COVID-19. The first stage applies a convergence club framework to identify clusters of countries within which the development of the epidemic is similar. The second stage models the membership of these clusters as a function of policy responses and public responses to the pandemic, with a particular focus on education as a determinant of the public response. Data include COVID-19 mortality per million, tertiary education completed, age structure, and voice and accountability and government effectiveness measures for each country in the dataset. We find evidence of two convergence clubs, one with a higher and one with a lower COVID-19 death rate. We also find evidence to support the hypothesis that relatively high levels of educational attainment in a population predicts a lower COVID19 death rate among individuals 65 or more years of age. We speculate that this is attributable to more informed prosocial behaviors directed toward elderly people in the form of adherence to guidelines intended to reduce spread of the virus.
Keywords: covid-19, convergence, education, world data
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This exploratory essay foregrounds the extraction and enclosure cycle between education technology (ed-tech) vendors and public academic special collections and archives departments. Education technology vendors, subsidiaries of academic publishers, often approach special collections libraries and archives with offers to digitize collections through services that McLaughlin et al. (2023) describe as open wrapping or freemium proposals. Since there seems to be no turning back, information professionals in public academic settings should, among other solutions, encourage decision-makers to negotiate preservation and conservation of physical archival materials. Drawing from the literature on commons practices, this essay introduces the concept of reciprocal relations to agreements between cultural heritage institutions and ed-tech companies. A reciprocal approach would disrupt the extraction and enclosure cycle and highlights the professional’s role as a steward of cultural heritage collections with an understanding that digitization is not preservation. Further, it would compel private sector companies to invest in the public sector instead of simply extracting public resources for profit.
Keywords: archives, archives, enclosure, collections spéciales, enclos, openwashing, ouvertisation, special collections libraries, souscommuns, undercommons
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Drawing on our recent collaborative experience in teaching an intermediate-level museum studies course in Fall 2023, this reflective essay aims to demonstrate how faculty and librarians can employ object-centered research to guide students in their exploring and understanding of the extractive practices associated with imperialism and colonialism that have shaped museum and library collections. We specifically focus on the research and curatorial practices that culminated in an end-of-semester exhibit, showcased in both physical and digital formats. Through this exhibit, our student-curators brought to light the process of removing artifacts from their original material and political contexts and their subsequent integration into our collections. Moreover, they critically examined how classification and organization practices and, in certain instances, digitization processes in libraries, can either continue to veil or reveal the history of violence.
Keywords: collaboration, collaboration, exposition, exhibition, extraction, extraction, objects, objets, pédagogie, pedagogy
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The advent of social media expands the domain of the standard classroom. The outcome is that incidents of conflict, also known as classroom incivility, exist not only within the conventional classroom. They can take place on social media platforms. In this paper, the author draws on his experience with a complaint about an assignment in one of his classes that surfaced on X (formerly Twitter), feedback on the assignment that took the shape of a story on Instagram, and his response to the activity in the two venues. He draws on the concept of classroom incivility and reflects on how this term, named to describe conflict in in-person classrooms, is relevant on social media platforms.
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A study is made of verbal language and artistic expression in human communication and their link to secondary perception, the way perception changed once humans achieved verbal language. The connection of verbal language to artistic expression through secondary perception is made as is the explosion of new tools, altruism, a theory of mind and religious practice, which are explored.
Keywords: secondary perception, language, verbal language, artistic expression, tools, percepts, concepts, theory of mind, altruism, religious practice
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This special issue looks at partnership approaches to innovation thanks to recent developments in ICT, which enable the acquisition and transfer of skills, thus changing the processes and organization of firms. It is therefore essential to understand how ICT is used to establish internal and external collaborations for innovation. For this reason, we first examine the ICT used for innovation collaborations and how they contribute to the innovation process. The five articles then examine the effectiveness of ICT in three internal collaborations and two innovation partnerships. Finally, we propose a number of avenues for further research to better understand how ICTs and their use modify the way innovation takes place and the underlying organizational processes.
Keywords: collaboration, partnership, innovation, organization, ICT, knowledge, R&D, collaboration, partenariat, innovation, organisation, TIC, connaissance, R&D, colaboración, asociación, innovación, organización, TIC, conocimiento, I+D