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1871.More information
SummaryAfter sci many years of political realism and power struggles, sociology's relations with the symbolic function are troubled and uncertain. Our desire is to give full place and strength to the symbolic function as intermediary in the relationship with the outside world. This function implies a socialized cognitive framework by which a capacity for intelligibility can be attained. The experience of the group known as La Puce Communautaire, whose goal is the appropriation of new technologies by the public, illustrates the construction of the object. This object construction is proposed to make up for the inadequacies of other approaches.
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1872.More information
SummaryThe goal of this paper is to review those explanatory models that dominate social demography in Quebec. The classical organization of demography, which calls upon the three components of demographic reproduction - fertility, migration and mortality - is followed. The concluding part of the paper deals with the concept of "demographic regime:", which aims to bring the three components together into an overall theory of demographic reproduction. The paper shows that if the functionalist and empirical tradition (mostly American) has dominated the field of demography for a very long time, feminist and materialistic approaches have recently appeared for the interpretation of demographic realities.
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1874.More information
In this article, the author proposes an analysis of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas' communicational model in the perspective of its application to legal sciences. Habermas succeeded in isolating the significant aspects of a normative science and his model can help legal shcolars in reflecting on the processes inherent in the justification and evaluation of any legal system worthy of such a name. In the first place, the author analyzes the communicational model by emphasizing the relevant aspects for a legal science model. In the second place, the concept of rationality is examined and lastly the concept of methodology. The author concludes by proposing that the communicational model make it possible to approach a procedural conception of law that emphasizes "that which is required in law."
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1875.More information
The content of positive law is continuously changing such that a large part of the jurists' work is concerned with describing those changes and looking for consistency. Beyond such modifications, it is possible to consider that another type of transformation, more profound and more substantial, may affect the internal structure and functions of law. A review of the literature on the subject shows : (1) the emergence of a scientific paradigm — different from that of legal positivism — which would allow the study of such transformations ; (2) an attempt at classifying the various means of apprehending the transformations of law.
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1877.More information
Holder since 1988 of the fourth chair in the Société des Dix, Roger Le Moine died on 12 July 2004 at the age of 70. In this homage in the form of testimony, Bernard Andrès looks back on the career and works of our colleague. This outline of an intellectual portrait examines Roger Le Moine's involvement in research on New France but especially on Canada in the nineteenth century. Be it his research on the nobility, the bourgeoisie or on specific writers, Roger Le Moine developed a method based on the study of the sources, sociocriticism, psychological criticism, and genealogy. The latter targeted not so much individuals but rather the social groups from which they came and that they helped transform through an often progressive world view. Resistant to theory and great systems, Roger Le Moine had nonetheless an all-encompassing view of Quebec society. Especially attracted to rebellious or marginalized figures, Roger Le Moine worked to bring them to light and to contextualize their works by utilizing his scholarship and his thorough knowledge of socio-cultural networks. His publications on Canadian Freemasonry will continue to exercise considerable influence. This independent and generous scholar will be remembered for his deciding research on Joseph Marmette, Napoléon Bourassa, Louis-Joseph Papineau, and Félicité Angers but also on his relatives or ancestors who left their mark such as James McPherson Le Moine and Félix-Antoine Savard. A lover of the Charlevoix region, Roger Le Moine spent his life between his university (Ottawa) and his favourite places: Saint-Fidèle and La Malbaie. Bernard Andrès's article examines this career through numerous quotations from the works of our colleague.
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1878.More information
In Québec, many students with learning disabilities and other handicaps (EHDAA) are integrated into the regular classroom in accordance with the Policy on Special Education (MEQ, 1999) and the Action Plan to Promote Success for Students with Handicaps, Social Maladjustments or Learning Disabilities (MELS, 2008). This article explores how teachers are trained to work in an inclusive education context. It specifically aims to draw an exploratory portrait of Québec's elementary and preschool teacher training programs. The contributions expected from the teachers working in an inclusive education context are described, and then compared with course description elements from nine Francophone universities in Québec offering elementary and preschool teacher training. The last section highlights the special challenges of teacher training designed to support mainstreaming in Québec.
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1879.More information
The objective of this study was to describe the pedagogical practices of ten third-cycle elementary teachers for including ICT in their teaching, including the ways they choose to use these technologies with their students, and their preferred organization methods. The results showed that teachers see the computer in the classroom more as a learning tool than a means of entertainment. In this sense, the preferred uses were mainly research, processing and publishing information, with the help of word processing and the Internet. Few teachers fully integrated ICT into their lessons. The teachers report that they prefer using ICT directly in the classroom rather than in a lab, which facilitates the management of the technologies using a much more student-centred approach, through workshops, free time and projects. This article also reveals a few limitations and suggests several avenues of research. It also makes some practical recommendations.
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1880.More information
The concept of school success is examined through the definitions, research axes and actions chosen by researchers from Centre de recherche et d'intervention sur la réussite scolaire (CRIRES) since its creation in 1992. The historical-cultural theory is applied to this case, and the Engeström model (1987, 1999) is used as a frame of reference to analyze the Québec education system whose goal is success for the students. At the meta level, this analysis examines school success agents, such as intervention tools used in different contexts, as well as certain roles, standards and policies that go along with them. The analysis is proactive and shows intervention modes in the school and post-secondary milieus, agents of school success within the community (class, school, local community or society). What emerges is that 1) the 1992 definition for school success, to reach the learning objectives for each level, is a cultural artifact despite certain reserves that the CRIRES researchers periodically express on this subject, 2) the research axes orient the mediation of innovation by using a wide variety of instruments and the examination of their results in specific contexts, and 3) CRIRES is developing, in a more and more explicit way, its scope of research from a systemic point of view.