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This article focuses on the mobilization of a collective created by citizens, Bridges not Borders (BnotB), that has been working to defend the asylum seekers that cross the Canada-U.S. border “irregularly” since 2017. The case of BnotB contributes to the literature on borders by bringing a perspective interested in the dynamics and mobilizations of citizens coming to the help of vulnerable persons across border crossings. Based on content analyses and semi-structured interviews, this case study allows us to present a “bottom up” form of action, led by citizens mobilized by migration issues, which we define under the gesture of hospitality.
Keywords: frontière, border, hospitality, hospitalité, asylum seeker, demandeurs d’asile, mobilisation citoyenne, citizen mobilization, refugee, réfugiés, Roxham Road, chemin Roxham, Québec, Quebec
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AbstractThis article focuses on the no-code movement, which offers the promise of a software creation democratization and more broadly of society. Here we will try to go beyond this deterministic technophile myth by adopting a co-evolutionary perspective to apprehend the recursive relationships between technical objects and organizational forms and specify the opportunities and constraints that carries these technologies in terms of quality of work and quality of life at work. The article is based on an exploratory study conducted in a consulting firm specializing in digital transformations that reflect important organizational changes following the integration of no-code tools: technical and creative professions are hybridizing, promoting intra- and inter-business collaborations. But if these organizational effects manage to be actualized within this company, it is also because the company represents a favorable social ground where organizational silos are voluntarily unstructured, management is barely present, and where the organization promotes the autonomy of employees. The example of this particular structure reveals the profound co-evolution of technical objects and organizational forms, which shape each other more than they are unilaterally determined.On the other hand, these positive organizational effects are also joined by other unwanted and destabilizing effects for the organization and the actors in place. The deployment of no-code platforms may first of all encounter the reluctance of developers that perceive these tools as a threat, compared to the power they traditionally have in the creation of software. The potential of reconfiguration of these tools disrupts business cultures and the games of actors in place. However, no-code tools are not available to everyone : they are primarily used by curious “hackers”, with a strong appetite for digital technology and a minimum of technical skills, with the risk of creating a division between designers and simple users. Moreover, the apparent ease of their use runs the risk of underestimating the complexity of no-code projects and so generating dysfunctional software products, as well as a sense of abandonment in work teams.
Keywords: Plateformes no code, démocratisation numérique, impacts organisationnels, déterminisme technique, co-évolution, no code platforms, digital democratization, organizational impacts, technical determinism, co-evolution
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Background: Training future doctors in the skills of evidence-based medicine (EBM) is clearly important. Journal club (JCs) are well-recognized educational interventions for teaching EBM. In contrast to postgraduate medical education, JCs use in undergraduate medical education (UME) has not been adequately explored. We conducted a realist review of the effectiveness of JCs in UME to unpack the underlying mechanisms by which the intervention works (or fails) in teaching EBM.Methods: The scope of review was the evaluation of the effectiveness of JCs in UME settings. We searched major bibliographic databases - MEDLINE, Embase, ERIC, PSYCInfo, CINAHL, Scopus, and Web of Science and found fifteen articles eligible for inclusion. Data was extracted aided by a modified Kirkpatrick framework and presented in evidence tables. Themes and chains of inference were identified, and finally, we formulated new hypotheses on how and why JC intervention works.Results: Mandatory vs. voluntary JC did not differentially impact attendance of JC in UME settings though JC duration beyond two hours decreased attendees’ self-reported satisfaction. Coupling lectures to JCs positively impacts knowledge gain and retention. Coupled Mentorship or using critical appraisal worksheets helped the achievement of manuscript writing skills and a positive attitude towards EBM.Conclusions: Journal clubs are effective interventions to teach EBM in UME settings and are well-received by learners. They improve specific learning outcomes of knowledge gain and retention, skills of manuscript writing and critical appraisal. However, we found no evidence that these translates to the practice of EBM nor impacts patient outcomes.
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In this article, we studied net neutrality as a complex sociocultural phenomenon that can affect the works of distance education scholars and online learners. We decided to take part in this research because many distance education scholars and learners take net neutrality for granted. We engaged in a qualitative investigation of US public documents and explored the effects of net neutrality and public digital access, which can influence learner engagement with online educational materials. We focused on identifying tensions in the discourse about net neutrality, especially surrounding the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) 2015 Open Internet Order. Our research question was: How do the complexities involved in the net neutrality debate in the United States affect public access to online information and services, and what implications does this hold for online learning? We relied on activity systems as an analytical framework for making sense of net neutrality.
Keywords: distance education access, computer mediated communication, net neutrality, digital divide, digital disempowerment, narrative analysis, activity systems analysis
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Digital curation may be regarded as a core competency in higher education since it contributes to establishing a sense of metaliteracy (an essential requirement for optimally functioning in a modern media environment) among students. Digital curation is gradually finding its way into higher education curricula aimed at fostering social media literacies. Teachers are urged to blend informal and formal learning and since most people informally use curation in their daily lives for compiling relevant information, it may be fairly easy to adopt digital curation in teaching and learning. Teachers, however, require considerable insight in incorporating various informal digital curation tools in educational practices. The SECTIONS model may assist in guiding decisions around the suitability of digital curation tools for a higher education environment. Including digital literacy training in the professional development of academic staff members may sensitize them to the possibilities that incorporating digital approaches in curricula offer. The Five Cs of Digital Curation framework may guide academic staff members in compiling suitable digital material. There as yet appears not to be a pedagogy that fully acknowledges the various digital curation processes. A pedagogy of abundance, acknowledging that content often is freely available and abundant, may eventually prove relevant in this regard.
Keywords: Competency, digital curation, digital literacy, higher education, metaliteracy, openness, pedagogy of abundance, SECTIONS model
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In the article, we reveal writing practices carried out by a group of young people who attend a Community Telebachillerato using technological devices to communicate, relate and interact through messages in which a variety of languages, symbols, images and texts alternate. The perspective of digital literacy calls us to redefine written culture, no longer just as the acquisition of the technique of the writing system, but as acts that question the practices imposed in the school. Literacy today involves practices and meanings that are different from those evoked by the nostalgic vision of traditional schooling. The Workshop Research was a commitment to horizontal, dialogical and collaborative work with educational agents. Oral and written narrative, a methodological resource for listening to readings from the school world. The category of interaction made it possible to articulate aspects such as communication, inter-subjective relationships and social symbols.
Keywords: Telebachillerato, alfabetismos digitales, acceso y desigualdad, Telebachillerato, digital literacy, access and inequality
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The Reading for Normal project discussed in this article sought to interrogate some of the assumptions about “normality” that underpin everyday life, and to understand how reading fictional representations of ordinary life might help young readers better manage periods of uncertainty and instability. Using data from a small‑scale UK‑based reading group project that ran from December 2020 to May 2021, we explore the affordances of authenticity, belonging, and connection that emerged when teens were offered opportunities for a “common dwelling in fictional ordinariness with a generational cohort”. We consider the ways in which reading and talking about young adult (YA) fiction helps teenage readers address questions about the changing world around them.
Keywords: Young adult fiction, reading groups, social norms, ordinariness, Britishness, Littérature pour adolescents, clubs de lecture, normes sociales, banalité, britannicité
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Following the work of Raymond Williams, this article examines the 81 fiction authors published in 1838. First, we examined the social origins of the authors as judged by their fathers' occupations. Whereas the majority of adults living in the British Isles during this period were working class, the majority of the Class of 1838 originated in the upper classes. Second, we traced their careers by finding their ages at first published novel, their total novels, and the span of their careers. Though no significant differences were found between the careers of men and women authors, there was a general lack of persistence to write a second novel. And last, we inspected the title pages of the 87 published works of fiction in 1838 to investigate the ways in which authors presented themselves to readers. Contrary to expectations, men authors were more likely than women authors to conceal their identities.
Keywords: Authors, British Isles, class, novel, Victorian Period, Auteurs, îles britanniques, classe sociale, roman, époque victorienne
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This essay sheds light on the multitude of ways in which photography can be used to research health and vulnerabilities by drawing upon three research projects conducted in Brazil. In the first research project, photography is a documentary source used to explore the definitions of insanity and normalcy in the context of psychiatric clinics throughout different periods, and to capture more recent local creative experiences in the context of the Brazilian psychiatric reform. Then, on the basis of an account consisting of choreographic images of bodies who work in tidal waters, photography allows readers to broaden their understanding of the daily work of island shellfish harvesters. Lastly, we share the experiences of an action research project that organized self-portrait workshops for Black youth living in a working-class district of Salvador, to promote healthy physical and sexual practices and ethnic-racial and gender-based empowerment. By taking a careful look at groups subject to social invisibility, vulnerability or a certain degree of stigmatization, these projects uncover social and political inequalities that have been shaped by history. These echoed experiences enhance the heuristic and sensitive dimensions of photography, whose place in research contributes towards preserving the ability to imagine and create, so necessary to moving beyond the methodological imitation that is captured in the production of knowledge.
Keywords: Photographie, santé, vulnérabilité, corps, mouvements, imagination, Photography, health, vulnerability, body, movement, imagination