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Keywords: pensée critique, kinésiologie, formation universitaire, conception

The representation of women through a social construction of gender is at the heart of feminism. But which feminism are we talking about, defined through which ideological struggles? The contradictions of the critique of each of the four waves of feminism are carried by many ideological currents (liberal, radical, differentialist, intersectional, neoliberal) that differently put into perspective the transformation of women’s place in society. Have we witnessed an evolution from one wave to the next, forming the continuity of the same movement, or a variety of ideologies opposing each other? Any conception of the relationship to gender requires to be crossed with other perspectives to understand the conditions of its mutation. Have the current confusion between sex and gender, as well as the invalidation of the biological binarity of the sexes reached limits beyond which women, by losing their public visibility, would no longer be recognized as such?

Keywords: feminismo, feminism, féminisme, luttes idéologiques, luchas ideológicas, ideological struggles, contradicciones, contradictions, contradictions, invisibilidad, invisibilité, invisibility, droits des femmes, women’s rights, derechos de las mujeres

Teachers' well-being affects the quality of education. The pandemic-related national lockdown and social isolation in South Africa, lasting for two and a half years, harmed teachers and the education sector. Teachers' emotional and occupational well-being changed with online and rotational instruction. This was because they were expected to support students and parents and acquire essential competencies and skills for online technology-based teaching and learning. This paper discusses a study on secondary school teachers' struggles during school closures. Ten teachers from Gauteng, South Africa, were purposively recruited, five from each public and private school, using a qualitative research approach and exploratory case study design. The Teacher Well-being conceptual framework provided a theoretical framework for well-being. The findings illuminate the mental, physical, and social well-being issues of the 10 secondary school instructors, their transition to online teaching, and their intrinsic and extrinsic coping techniques, such as social media and faith. The study showed why school governing bodies should focus on coping methods to promote teachers' well-being. In Gauteng, South Africa, there is little research on teachers' well-being during school closures. More research is needed to address teachers' emotional and occupational well-being and discover professional development support.

Keywords: South Africa, Teacher Wellbeing, Secondary School Teachers, Isolation

In the last two decades, shuttered warehouse-manufacturing sites and emptied retail across Los Angeles/Tovaangar were repurposed into the largest medical cannabis dispensary and indoor cultivation economy in the US. Drawing from more than twelve years of ethnographic participation, this paper bridges Black radical theory, disability studies and Buddhist humanist geographic perspectives to understand how cannabis workers, owner-operators, and patients produced fugitive forms of value. These forms of care, collective relationships, and material benefit challenge racial capitalist accumulation and offer distinct, even if fleeting moments of freedom. Facing death-dealing violence, marginalized communities created places of care at the “outlaw edge” that housed an undercommons of health practices and knowledge that include pleasure and non-hierarchical solidarities. These created respite and relief from interrelated geographies of abandonment, broken windows urban governance, and dispossession defining early 21st Century LA. Exploring cannabis economies offers a means to reconceptualize criminalization as a singular relation to carcerality, and to deepen our understanding of law, capitalism, and the forms of value generation being targeted. Ultimately, legalization in this context poses critical conundrums for participants in fugitive economies on what is gained and lost in further assimilation into racial capitalist urban economies. In other words, cannabis begs the question: can freedom only be found in flight?

Keywords: fugitivity, abolition, cannabis, drug war, Black geographies, carceral geographies, race

Representing changes to social relations in the late twentieth century, the “Information Society” emerged from several global historical developments: political tension between market ideologies and attempts at alternatives; the integration of computer technology across public and private life; and intense specialization within western systems of knowledge fostering skepticism of grand unifying narratives. At different phases of its emergence, information literacy has been proffered as a solution to the Information Society’s many shocks. But despite investments and codification in national curriculums, information literacy has yielded only marginal success over its 50-year history, neither preventing the worst of the Information Society’s calamities nor achieving its visions of progress. Following modes of documentary poetry and research poetry, these three poems ("Zurkowski's Prism," "The Amazing Dissolving Student," and "A Decade and Another and Another") draw from textual materials of the Information Society and its complex discourses to raise provocative questions about the world which critical information literacy practitioners must face such that they may change it. Each poem traces aspects of its history, its material conditions, and attempts through critical information literacy (both the incomplete and the ongoing) to struggle with its many contradictions.

Keywords: critical pedagogy, enquête poétique, littératie informationnelle, documentary poetry, néolibéralisme, information literacy, neoliberalism, enseignement supérieur, higher education, pédagogie critique, poetic inquiry, poésie documentaire

A recent book, Contemporary Democratic Theory, is about the decline of democracy. Not an explanation of the phenomenon, but rather a look at how democratic theory has responded. This paper adapts that approach. The context of progressive librarianship (PL) has likewise shifted and consolidated with the results of the 2024 US presidential election and its aftermath. This is not localized or short term, it is global and persistent—and for democracy as well as libraries. The time has come to step back and ask the equivalent questions to that book on democratic theory: what is PL now? How did PL adapt and how might PL adapt? Efforts to document the work of and define PL began in response to “considerable ambiguity about just what constitutes progressive librarianship”—an inquiry conducted over the course of 15 years. It revealed that PL is an umbrella term describing both scholarship and organizational activities, gathering together many labels, if not always comfortably. This paper traces those paths, and based on that history suggests ones for PL to take, and perhaps as important, not to take.

Keywords: Democracy, bibliothéconomie progressiste, démocratie, neoliberalism, néolibéralisme, progressive librarianship

This study aims to map the research landscape on English literacy difficulties and interventions among primary school students with dyslexia using a bibliometric approach. Data were retrieved from the Scopus database using targeted keywords, resulting in 63,184 documents. After applying filters for publication year (2020–2025), subject area (social sciences), language (English), and open-access status, a final dataset of 1492 relevant articles was obtained. Following this, the analysis was subsequently performed in RStudio using Biblioshiny and visualized with VOSviewer. The results indicate a substantial decrease in annual growth in publications, despite high levels of author involvement and collaborative endeavours. The United States and the United Kingdom dominate in production and citation impact, and notable journals, scholars, institutions, and nations are among the key contributors. Likewise, four major research areas emerged from the thematic cluster analysis, including foundational literacy skills, learning disorders in school settings, speech and communication difficulties, and educational psychology aspects such as self-esteem. Findings from this study stress the need for early, organized, and comprehensive interventions for children with dyslexia, which has several facets. To close the gap in dyslexia-related scholarship worldwide, it also highlights the need for more inclusive, geographically diverse research collaborations.

Keywords: Bibliometric Analysis, English Literacy, Primary Students, Dyslexia

In the age of digital intelligence, the so-called “21st-century skills” are playing an increasingly important role in educational policies, organizational practices and training frameworks. This rise in importance has been accompanied by a proliferation of conceptual, national and sectoral frameworks, which has generated semantic fragmentation that is detrimental to the coherence, comparability and implementation of skills in the labour market. This article provides a critical analysis of this dynamic, examining the evolution of skill definitions, the multiplication of frameworks, and the practical consequences of this dispersion. Based on a literature review and the analysis of data from different skill frameworks, the article identifies three main phenomena: the redundancy of skills across the frameworks, their semantic overlap, and the diversity of reference points according to geographical and institutional contexts. This article proposes three possible solutions: grouping skills into coherent meta-categories, harmonizing existing frameworks by developing shared taxonomies, and standardizing digital and artificial intelligence skills through adaptive tools that integrate emerging technologies. The goal is to build more integrative frameworks capable of reconciling both conceptual robustness and contextual flexibility of skills, to better meet the demands of a constantly evolving labour world.

Keywords: Compétences du 21e siècle, 21st-century skills, référentiels de compétences, skills frameworks, conceptual proliferation, prolifération conceptuelle, normative frameworks, cadres normatifs, chevauchement sémantique, semantic overlap

Managing major projects comes with its share of criticisms and challenges, and requires exceptional skills to successfully complete these projects and generate added value. The question of required skills, both individually and at the organizational level, remains relatively undocumented in the literature and is fundamental to understanding the practices of value creation and distribution in major projects. This conceptual article, illustrated by empirical examples of large-scale projects in Quebec, aims to identify the organizational skills required in managing major projects to create value. A literature review provides the mechanisms underlying value creation and the main organizational skills required in project management. A conceptual framework is then developed, articulating four interrelated and interdependent areas of practice that enable value generation in projects, and are illustrated empirically: structural, procedural, technological and relational. A discussion outlines the main theoretical contributions and practical applications of this framework, and reminds us of the importance of developing organizational skills rooted in the organization's context to enable the implementation of these practices and a culture oriented on value-creation.

Keywords: Compétences organisationnelles, Organizational skills, major projects, projets majeurs, value creation, création de valeur, organizational culture, culture organisationnelle, conceptual framework, cadre conceptuel

This study examined how task characteristics (TC) and individual characteristics (IC) affect cognitive load (CL) and how artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) moderates these effects in online learning. Participants included 435 undergraduate students (200 males and 235 females) enrolled in an introductory educational technology course. A structural model, conducted using Mplus software, was employed to test the relationships between each of TC and IC, and CL. Additional analyses explored the moderating role of AIGC on the relationship between TC and CL, the impact of AIGC on the relationship between IC and CL, as well as how these patterns differed by gender. Results revealed that TC positively affected CL, whereas IC exhibited a negative correlation. Moreover, AIGC negatively affected the relationship between TC and CL, but it enhanced the relationship between IC and CL. The moderating role of AIGC differed by gender. Specifically, AIGC positively influenced the connection between IC and CL among males but not females, and it weakened the relationship between TC and CL among females but not males. The implications and limitations are also discussed.

Keywords: task characteristics, individual characteristics, cognitive load, AIGC, structuring equation modeling, online learning