Du siècle classique au XVIIIe siècle

Cette introduction expose la motivation du volume, la présentation des articles et les remerciements aux éditrices qui ont contribué le plus aux sélections et suggestions éditoriales.Cette introduction expose la motivation du volume, la présentation des articles et les remerciements aux éditrices qui ont contribué le plus aux sélections et suggestions éditoriales

“Maybe We Have to Create Something Different”: Fostering Inclusion in Montessori Education

How Does Learning Happen: Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years, the early childhood education framework for Ontario (Canada), aims to guide early-years programs across the province by recognizing children as competent, capable, and curious individuals from diverse backgrounds. The policy highlights the significance of ensuring inclusive learning environments that foster a sense of belonging and enable every child to flourish (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2014). Many Montessori schools across the province share this view (Hunt et al., 2022) and strive for inclusive programs that meet the learning goals of children with special education needs; however, at times, this objective can seem daunting. In this article, we highlight findings from a study involving the educators at one Montessori school focusing on the self-described goal of improving the quality of their inclusive practices through an examination of beliefs and a continuous professional learning process. The main themes identified in the study related to educators’ attitudes to inclusion and their beliefs about how the Montessori method challenges inclusion pedagogies. Moreover, we found that educators’ understanding and implementation of differentiated instruction (Tomlinson & Imbeau, 2023) was lacking. The results indicate that Montessori educators’ inclusive practices and learning environments benefited from participating in ongoing, scaffolded professional learning specifically targeted to their needs and context

The Reception of John Locke’s Writings at Christ Church, Oxford, c. 1690–1800

This article presents some overlooked evidence on the reception of John Locke’s writings at Christ Church, Oxford. It is intended to supplement a new article in the History of Universities on the surprisingly positive response to Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) at that bastion of late seventeenth-century high churchmanship. This evidence sheds new light on: the reception of Epicureanism at that college in the 1650s; Locke’s personal connections at Christ Church; book-holdings of Locke’s writings at the early eighteenth-century college; some unnoticed uses of Locke’s writings by members of Christ Church; the European and North American reception of one Christ Church Lockean; and, the changing trajectory of the later eighteenth-century reception of Locke at that college

L’intelligence artificielle et la gestion documentaire : quels apports? Quels enjeux?

In an organizational context marked by the massive deployment of teleworking platforms, document and records management practices are becoming increasingly heterogeneous. The absence of a genuine harmonization of such practices creates challenges in terms of recorded information retrieval, whether for the purposes of business processes, transparency or accountability. One solution to tackle these challenges is to use artificial intelligence features to manage recorded information. This article sheds light on how artificial intelligence could be integrated into document and records management practices, highlighting the governance mechanisms that need to be put in place to this end.Dans un contexte organisationnel marqué par le déploiement massif des plateformes du télétravail, les pratiques de gestion documentaire deviennent de plus en plus hétérogènes. L’absence d’une véritable harmonisation de telles pratiques engendre des défis au niveau du repérage de l’information documentaire, que ce soit à des fins de réalisation des processus d’affaires, de transparence ou encore de reddition des comptes. Une piste prometteuse pour pallier ces enjeux est de mettre à profit les fonctionnalités de l’intelligence artificielle à des fins de gestion de l’information organique et consignée. Cet article se propose d’aborder la manière dont l’intelligence artificielle pourrait optimiser la gestion documentaire, en mettant de l’avant les mécanismes de gouvernance à déployer à cette fin

Editor's Corner December 2023

This issue has an article in a new publication format, namely HTML exported from a Jupyter Notebook using a Maple kernel.  This issue also is the first to execute our new policy, which is to publish articles more nearly "as they come in" instead of waiting for everyone.  The publication date is still a little late (first week of January 2024 instead of the final week of December 2023), and other papers may be added to this issue.  But we wanted to get the papers that are ready, published

Housing Policy, Urbanization, and the Production of Homelessness in Greenland

Visible homelessness is on the rise in Nuuk, Greenland. Since the early 2000s, the number of people staying at the municipal shelter, accessing support programs, and registering as homeless in the community has, by a qualitative estimate grown. Attention has also been given to the growing number of Greenlanders living homeless in Danish cities. However, the literature on Greenlandic homelessness remains sparse, and very little literature conceptualizes homelessness in Greenland within its specific geographical, cultural, or social context. To better understand the emergence of visible homelessness, this article explores the social dimensions of homelessness and asks how homelessness can be understood within the dynamics of urbanization in Greenland. Drawing on four years of participant observation in Nuuk with homelessness outreach organizations, and 20 in-depth interviews with both service providers and men and women experiencing homelessness, and four lived experience focus groups, we find that the emergence of homelessness in Greenland is part and parcel of a trajectory of welfare colonialism, resettlement, and contemporary urbanization. We highlight four specific policy issues: 1) an existing housing stock in Nuuk inappropriate for diverse needs; 2) urbanization in the absence of a national housing or homelessness strategy; 3) a lack of integrated supports and reliance on the non-profit sector; 4) and an increasingly punitive approach to managing the limited housing supply. Stepping back, we argue that the emergence of visible northern homelessness is an important lens through which to understand the dynamics of northern urbanization, social marginalization and exclusion, and the continuation of colonial relations in the era of self-governance.

Zaidan, Nisrine. Mariage, mariage… Histoires drôles et touchantes

Note de lecture de cet ouvrage de Nisrine Zaidan sur le mariage multiculturel sous l’angle de l’humourNote de lecture de cet ouvrage de Nisrine Zaidan sur le mariage multiculturel sous l’angle de l’humou

“My Values Keep Me Well… Would They Help Other People?”: A Thematic Analysis Exploring the Values and Values-Based Behaviours of People Facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage

Individuals facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage (SMD) have experience of at least three of the following: homelessness, substance use, mental illness, offending, and domestic violence. There is a push towards providing better support for people facing SMD and yet little research on what the “best” support looks like. Values motivate behaviour across various contexts, and helping an individual identify their values can lead to greater enactment of positive behavioural change. This study aimed to identify and explore the values of people facing SMD, the barriers and facilitators to enacting these values, and the perceived helpfulness of service provision in encouraging values-based behaviour or change. Twelve participants took part in semi-structured interviews. Reflexive thematic analysis resulted in four themes: values are idiosyncratic and interconnected; the benefits of value identification and enactment; the risks and challenges of value identification and enactment; and the relationship between values and support. Results offer preliminary evidence for the potential use of values in providing helpful, person-centered support for people facing SMD. Values work could arguably be integrated into any level of support for those facing SMD to support values-based living and change. Further research on the use and efficacy of values-focused interventions in SMD is needed

Plastic Like Jellyfish: Getting Intimate with Large and Small Scales of Being in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being considers bullying at different scales—from individual experience to international and interspecies relations. I will study how the novel portrays the great Pacific garbage patch in order to attend to waste—as bullied and rejected matter—and to further an ethics of entanglement where we are always in the process of being constituted through what we might want to reject. Entanglement is hard to conceptualize at a human scale because it largely exceeds its scope. I argue that this novel functions as a discursive instrument by which immense and minuscule scales of being—from the thousands of years it can take for plastic to biodegrade to the few months a jellyfish is expected to live—can be engaged with from the narrative’s human scale. This engagement allows readers to cultivate intimacy with and responsibility for what exceeds them rather than participating in a culture of bullying. I conclude by exploring the alternatives that the novel proposes to bullying which are the Zen Buddhist principle of not-knowing as well as practices of mourning for human and more-than-human losses