The Promise of Autonomy Supportive Contexts to Promote Youth Participatory Competence

A municipal youth citizenship initiative was implemented with the aim of providing adolescents with autonomy supportive contexts to plan and implement activities that were meaningful to youth and contributed to the collective good. The study purpose was to assess whether autonomy support, operationalized as instrumental practitioner support, influenced youth perceptions of participatory group competence beyond individual level factors. Youth participated in groups of 8 to 20 peers with practitioners facilitating youth participation in collective decision-making, planning and activity implementation. Cross-sectional surveys were completed by 79 of 113 eligible youth participants actively involved in the citizenship initiative implemented during the 2003-04 school year. Practitioner support was significantly related to participatory group competence, beyond perceived self-efficacy and age. Study findings suggest that there may be some merit to the implementation of youth citizenship initiatives that create autonomy supportive contexts and allow youth the opportunity to develop their participatory competence. Experiences such as this may allow young people to flourish as individuals and citizens and thus realize their full potential

The Promise of Autonomy Supportive Contexts to Promote Youth Participatory Competence

A municipal youth citizenship initiative was implemented with the aim of providing adolescents with autonomy supportive contexts to plan and implement activities that were meaningful to youth and contributed to the collective good. The study purpose was to assess whether autonomy support, operationalized as instrumental practitioner support, influenced youth perceptions of participatory group competence beyond individual level factors. Youth participated in groups of 8 to 20 peers with practitioners facilitating youth participation in collective decision-making, planning and activity implementation. Cross-sectional surveys were completed by 79 of 113 eligible youth participants actively involved in the citizenship initiative implemented during the 2003-04 school year. Practitioner support was significantly related to participatory group competence, beyond perceived self-efficacy and age. Study findings suggest that there may be some merit to the implementation of youth citizenship initiatives that create autonomy supportive contexts and allow youth the opportunity to develop their participatory competence. Experiences such as this may allow young people to flourish as individuals and citizens and thus realize their full potential

Modèle québecois des industries culturelles (Le)

Partant du constat que le secteur culturel québécois a connu un succès étonnant considérant la petitesse de son marché, l’équipe de professeurs-chercheurs à la base de ce rapport a étudié quatre pôles, soit le milieu professionnel, les entreprises culturelles, les sociétés d’État et le gouvernement et ses appareils. Traçant d’abord un état des lieux économique des cinq domaines culturels étudiés, le rapport aborde ensuite les comportements culturels des Québécois et termine en analysant certains enjeux actuels dans ces domaines

Municipal Cultural Policies in Quebec

Abstract: The current state of municipal and regional cultural policies in Quebec represents a major evolution since the adoption of Quebec's Cultural Policy in June 1992. A "municipalization" of cultural policy has occurred. Over the past ten years, there has been a fourteenfold increase in the number of municipalities with cultural policies in Quebec (to 93 today), and this phenomenon appears to be growing and gaining greater influence as the new century begins. These cultural policies have become important strategic tools for cultural, social, and economic development in the province. This paper reports the main findings of a recent study that examined the content of 51 cultural policies of Quebec municipalities. Résumé: L'état actuel des politiques culturelles municipales et régionales au Québec représente une évolution majeure depuis l'adoption de la Politique culturelle québécoise en juin 1992. Une municipalisation des politiques culturelles a eu lieu. En dix ans, le nombre de municipalités québécoises ayant une politique culturelle s'est multiplié par quatorze, jusqu'à quatre-vingt-treize aujourd'hui. Ce phénomène semble s'accélérer et gagner en influence au début du nouveau siècle. Ces politiques culturelles sont devenues des outils stratégiques importants pour le développement culturel, social et économique de la province. Cet article rapporte les résultats d'une étude récente qui a examiné le contenu de cinquante et une politiques culturelles dans les municipalités québécoises

Les Contradictions entre le capitalisme monopoliste et la théorie politique de la concurrence

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