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1921.More information
Governance in Belgium is characterized by a two-fold process ofreconfiguration – i.e., at the upper levels by the dynamics of“Europeanization” and at the lower levels by intensiveregionalization. For example, today the environmental sector isregionalized, but numerous decisions are made at the level of theEuropean Union, whose policymaking authorities have not fully accountedfor regional entities. This article is based on a study conducted amongthe federal and regional authorities responsible for managing airquality in Belgium. Translating the EU framework into action wouldrequire the deployment of a cross-cutting, environment/health approachbringing together all levels of power. At the same time, however, ourrespondents decry the lack of integration of these policies at theregional and federal levels. Each level of power has been developingits own dynamic for reinterpreting policy and instruments defined atthe European level.
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1922.More information
AbstractThis article examines the evolution of practices and conceptions regarding teaching, learning and the use of educational technology. An action-training-research project proposed two main learning perspectives: social-behaviourism and neo-constructivism to 40 primary level teacher participants. Data was collected using interviews and observations both at the beginning and at the end of the in-service training. An analysis of the data shows that teaching practices are mostly related to social behaviourism, while representations are mainly associated with multiple perspectives. The discussion provides an analysis of these results in light of the specific research context, the current work on changing representations, and teachers' practices. Suggestions regarding training and future research are provided.
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1924.More information
AbstractTranslation, Systems and Research: The Contribution of Polysystem Studies to Translation Studies — The aim of this article is not at all to examine Polysystems theory nor Polysystems research as such, but rather to discuss the impact Polysystems research has had in the development of a new discipline, i.e. Translation Studies. The ambiguous position of PS research within Translation Studies is due to its interdisciplinary claims and, on the other hand, to the necessity to work in a real world of disciplines where institutionalization is inevitable and even needed. The starting point of PS theory is not translation at all, but rather the dynamic functions fulfilled by translation within (inevitably) heterogeneous cultures and societies. On the basis of such hypotheses about culture(s) a rich panorama of new questions for research on translation has been worked out, as well as methodological models, and individual and collective descriptive research has been started in many countries on many cultural situations. Hence it may be accepted that descriptive research on translation would hardly have existed without the programmatic PS contribution and that the establishment of Translation Studies as an academic discipline is greatly indebted to PS. The gradual extension through various countries and disciplines (film studies, media studies, social organization, etc.) has favoured combinations with other approaches while making less clear the specific profile of the PS approach. It may be said that PS has served research as such, much more than its own sake, but wasn't this exactly the goal it wanted to achieve?
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1926.More information
AbstractExamining the main lines of research in urban sociology, the author concludes that it has neither specific theoretical preoccupations nor a concrete, specifically circumscribed subject matter. There still remains, however, the réintégration in the analysis, under a new perspective, of certain key problems dealt with in the tradition of urban sociology, mainly those of space organization and those which deal with the social patterns of collective consumption. In the former case the author analyses the transformation of space as a specification of the transformation of social structure and proposes the elements of the urban system and the principles of their articulation. In the latter case he sets forth a theory which is centered upon the structural study of city planning.
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1927.
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1928.More information
With the founding of Sibyllines in 1997, Brigitte Haentjens created a new space for artistic freedom, one whose rules and orientations she took it upon herself to define. The study of various media discourses – interviews and critical commentary published in the French-language print media – devoted to the shows Je ne sais plus qui je suis (1998) and Hamlet-machine (2001) highlights the main aesthetic and philosophical components of this undertaking in the early years of its existence, based on a comparison between the views of the artist and her collaborators as well as those of the journalists covering these events.
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1929.More information
This article argues that the paradigm of mobility associated with concepts of intermediality and performativity contributes to the dynamics of a researcher-creator that is sensitive to theoretical, artistic and cultural decompartmentalization. We focus, more specifically, on new staged forms to introduce an experiment conducted by the Canada Research Chair in the Creation of a Dramaturgy of Sound in Theatre. We show how in situ mobile sound demonstrates the potential of research-creation in live art. The contemporary stage, via this research-creation, confirms its status as a platform where a plurality of sectors and disciplines connect, and where the combination of media and the transmedia extension contribute to resensitizing the spectator.