Itinéraires de découverte : quel transfert possible de la démarche projet issue de l’industrie ?

Project-based approaches have grown in education and business environments. Both regard project implementation methods as a mean to reach specific objectives. Could project management in business environment and project-based learning share similarities? Could industry infuse education with some of its best practice for the implementation of educational projects, and more specifically for the “Itinéraires de Découvertes” in secondary schools? From these questions, this dissertation aims at defining what characterises project management and project-based learning. In their own environments, what do these two methods aim at? To what extend can we establish a parallel? The purpose of this dissertation is to highlight similarities and discrepancies, limits to a transfer of practice, and tools which can contribute to reach the objective of an education project: developing students’ transversal skills.L’approche par projet s’est développée dans l’éducation et dans l’industrie. Ces deux contextes ont en commun d’envisager la démarche projet comme un moyen d’atteindre certains objectifs. Ainsi, la gestion de projet en contexte industriel présenterait-elle des similitudes avec la pédagogie de projet ? L’école pourrait-elle s’inspirer des pratiques de l’entreprise dans la mise en oeuvre de projets éducatifs, notamment dans le cadre des Itinéraires de Découvertes au collège ? C’est à partir de ces interrogations que ce mémoire vise à définir ce qui caractérise gestion de projet et pédagogie de projet. Dans leur environnement respectif, que visent ces deux démarches ? Jusqu’à quel point peut-on les rapprocher ? Ce travail tend à mettre en lumière les similitudes et les écarts, les limites d’un transfert de pratiques, ainsi que les outils qui peuvent contribuer à atteindre ce que vise le projet éducatif : le développement de compétences transversales chez l’élève

'Signs of churning': Muslim Personal Law and public contestation in twenty-first century India

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009. Published version reproduced with the permission of the publisher.For many Indian Muslims, the preservation of Muslim Personal Law has been the touchstone of their capacity to defend their Muslim identity. This article examines public debate over Muslim Personal Law less as a subject uniting Indian Muslims, but rather as a site in which a varied array of individuals, schools and organisations have sought to assert their individual identities. This is done through a discussion of the evolution of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, the most authoritative such organisation since the 1970s, with particular focus on its recent fragmentation at the hands of a number of alternative legal councils formed by feminist, clerical and other groups. These organisations have justified their existence through criticism of the Board’s alleged attempts to standardisation of Islamic law and its Deobandi dominance. In truth, however, this process of fragmentation owes to a complex array of embryonic and interlinked personal, political and ideological competitions, indicative of the increasingly paradoxical process of consensus-building in contemporary Indian Muslim society

Songs between cities: Listening to courtesans in colonial north India

In the aftermath of 1857, urban spaces and cultural practices were transformed and contested. Regional royal capitals became nodes in a new colonial geography, and the earlier regimes that had built them were recast as decadent and corrupt societies. Demolitions and new infrastructures aside, this transformation was also felt at the level of manners, sexual mores, language politics, and the performing arts. This article explores this transformation with a focus on women's language, female singers and dancers, and the men who continued to value their literary and musical skills. While dancing girls and courtesans were degraded by policy-makers and vernacular journalists alike, their Urdu compositions continued to be circulated, published, and discussed. Collections of women's biographies and lyrics gesture to the importance of embodied practices in cultivating emotional positions. This cultivation was valued in late Mughal elite society, and continued to resonate for emotional communities of connoisseurs, listeners, and readers, even as they navigated the expectations and sensibilities of colonial society

Temple building on the Egyptian margins: the geopolitical issues behind Seti II and Ramesses IX’s activity at Amheida

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Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India by David Lelyveld

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