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Experience and Project: Dewey thought Translated into Pedagogical Action Year of publication: 2016 Author: Marc Boutet Corporate author: Phronesis John Dewey talks about child as an «agency of doing» which, by its action, strives to create meaning. From this view, Dewey offers new teaching principles focusing on learning in a context of free activity rather than in a context of restrictive discipline. The child is no longer just invited to represent the phenomenon to understand, it is somehow invited to meet it, to experience it, experience being defined as a transaction between the human being and physical and social environment. Dewey also said that the lack of continuity in the experience marks the beginning of the learning process, he called inquiry, no longer described as essentially individualistic, which bases his epistemic perception of democracy. After briefly describing our meeting with Dewey’s educational thought, we will try to establish, from his conception of action, inquiry and democracy, how his thought can be considered as a foundation for a major innovation educational innovation symbolizing education reform in Quebec of the 2000s: the project approach. 
Religion, « communauté » et citoyenneté : le cas des écoles Steiner, musulmane et juive en contexte montréalais Year of publication: 2012 Author: Stéphanie Tremblay Corporate author: Diversité urbaine Nous proposons, à partir d’une étude ethnographique menée dans la région de Montréal, d’explorer la conception de la citoyenneté véhiculée au sein de trois écoles privées de groupes ou de courants minoritaires (Steiner, musulmane et juive). Après avoir dressé un rapide panorama des critiques adressées aux écoles religieuses dans les débats éducatifs, sociaux et politiques, nous aborderons d’un point de vue théorique les notions de communauté éducative et de citoyenneté. Ces précisions nous permettront de mettre en lumière comment les enseignants de ces trois écoles cherchent à développer, par des voies à la fois différentes et convergentes, une formation du citoyen porteuse d’un « particularisme universel » (Riedel 2008). Les trois écoles aspirent en effet, malgré leurs spécificités, à s’ouvrir à la diversité ambiante et à la participation de leurs élèves au reste de la société, mais ceci à travers un vecteur spirituel ou religieux particulier, servant de dais sacré aux valeurs civiques. 
Never again ! Does Holocaust education have an effect on pupils' citizenship values and attitudes? Year of publication: 2006 Corporate author: Scottish Executive. Department of Social Research As the education for citizenship agenda continues to make an impact on schools, this research sets out to examine whether teaching the Holocaust, in the upper primary, either as part of a study on World War 2 or as a topic on its own, has an impact, both immediate and longer term, on pupils’ citizenship values and attitudes, and particularly those values and attitudes relating to various minority or disadvantaged groups in Scotland. (By the author) 
Indicators of the Concept of Secularism in the Context of Conversations Between Teachers on the Topic of Civic Education in High Schools Year of publication: 2015 Author: Sylvie Courtine Sinave | France Jutras Corporate author: McGill University. Faculty of Education As part of a collaborative research project on civic education, conversations between high school teachers and faculty were analyzed from the perspective of indicators of secularism, namely, freedom of conscience and religion as they relate to tolerance, equality of rights, fraternity, emancipation, separation between church and state, and law and order. The results show that, according to these educators, the role of the school is paramount to the learning of social behaviour and that some values related to secularism are actualized in the context of teaching history and civic education, such as the primacy of human rights, emancipation, and the importance of the public space. Éléments indicateurs de la laïcité dans le cadre de discussions d’enseignants sur l’éducation à la citoyenneté à l’école secondaire Year of publication: 2015 Author: Sylvie Courtine Sinave | France Jutras Corporate author: McGill University. Faculty of Education Dans le cadre d’une recherche collaborative sur l’éducation à la citoyenneté, les discussions d’enseignants du secondaire et d’universitaires sont analysées sous l’angle d’indicateurs de la laïcité, c’est-à-dire de la liberté de conscience et de culte liée à la tolérance, l’égalité des droits, la fraternité, l’émancipation, la séparation de l’Église et de l’État, le droit et l’ordre public juste. L’analyse des discussions permet de dégager que, selon ces intervenants, le rôle de l’école est primordial dans la gestion du social et que des valeurs reliées à la laïcité sont actualisées dans le cadre de l’enseignement de l’histoire et éducation à la citoyenneté au secondaire : la primauté du droit, l’émancipation, l’importance de l’espace public. 
The Legitimacy of Diversity in Education: A Reflection on Inclusion Year of publication: 2011 Author: Luc Prud’homme | Raymond Vienneau | Serge Ramel | Nadia Rousseau Corporate author: Éducation et francophonie The objective of this article is to explore the theme of diversity in the classroom from the perspective of scholastic inclusion, or its alternative, scholastic and social exclusion. The article examines concepts that foster the positive and constructive recognition of diversity in the school setting, along with the social and cultural dimension of inclusion and the pedagogy of inclusion. La légitimité de la diversité en éducation : réflexion sur l’inclusion Year of publication: 2011 Author: Luc Prud’homme | Raymond Vienneau | Serge Ramel | Nadia Rousseau Corporate author: Éducation et francophonie Le présent texte a pour objectif de proposer une réflexion sur le thème de la diversité à l’école, et ce, sous l’angle de l’inclusion scolaire ou de son alternative, l’exclusion scolaire et sociale. Le texte examine ainsi certaines conceptions favorisant une reconnaissance positive et constructive de la diversité en contexte scolaire. Ensuite, il explore la dimension sociale et culturelle de ce phénomène pour enfin traiter la question de l’inclusion et de la pédagogie de l’inclusion. 
Paths Towards Citizen Participation Among Kanak Youth in Koné (New-Caledonia) Year of publication: 2018 Author: Ève Desroches-Maheux Corporate author: Lien social et Politiques Based on an ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the forms and modalities taken by the civic participation of the Kanak youths living in Province Nord, New Caledonia. Being at the dawn of a referendum on its accession to a full sovereignty, this French territory of a sui generis status is now at a turning point in its history. In preparation for this event, the Nouméa Accord laid the foundations of a New-Caledonian citizenship, situated, for the moment, within the French citizenship. However, this citizenship in construction poses the question of the place given in it to the Kanak, the indigenous people of the territory. Approaching citizenship as a set of “political subjectivation processes” producing a citizenship simultaneously “determined by the state and by the subjects composing it ”, we explore the answers and “negotiation attempts” made by the Kanak youths toward it. Results show that despite some negative representations playing against them, the youths still appropriate possibilities opened up by public policies and programs in hope to make their grievances heard and to implement structuring projects. Furthermore, as those forms of civic practices are used as handles to resist French hegemony in Province Sud by youths that seek above all to strongly affirm their Kanak identities, north youth participation in the public space appears rather embedded in an inclusive approach toward other communities. Les chemins de la participation citoyenne des jeunes Kanak de Koné (Nouvelle-Calédonie) Year of publication: 2018 Author: Ève Desroches-Maheux Corporate author: Lien social et Politiques En partant d’un terrain ethnographique, cet article explore les formes et modalités de la participation « citoyenne » des jeunes Kanak vivant en province Nord, en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Étant à l’aube du référendum sur son accession à la pleine souveraineté, ce territoire français de statut sui gereris se situe à un moment charnière de son histoire. En préparation à cet événement, l’accord de Nouméa vint poser les bases d’une nouvelle citoyenneté néo-calédonienne située, pour le moment, à l’intérieur de la citoyenneté française. Cette citoyenneté en construction pose toutefois la question de la place qui y est accordée aux Kanak, peuple autochtone du territoire. Abordant la citoyenneté comme un ensemble de « processus de subjectivation politique », produisant une citoyenneté à la fois « déterminée par l’État et par les sujets qui la composent », nous explorerons les réponses et « tentatives de négociations » de jeunes Kanak envers cette dernière. Les résultats montrent que malgré les représentations négatives qui pèsent sur eux, les jeunes s’approprient les possibilités ouvertes par les politiques et les programmes publics dans l’espoir de faire entendre leurs doléances et de mettre en oeuvre des projets structurants. De plus, alors que ce type de pratiques citoyennes constituent un levier de résistance face à l’hégémonie française en province Sud pour les jeunes qui cherchent avant tout à y affirmer leur identité kanak, l’implication des jeunes du Nord dans l’espace public s’inscrit plutôt dans une démarche inclusive face aux autres communautés. 
Working Towards Citizenship: Shared Destiny, Social Demand and Decolonisation of the Educational System in Contemporary New Caledonia Year of publication: 2009 Author: Marie Salaün | Jacques Vernaudon Corporate author: Anthropologie et Sociétés | Université Laval The situation in contemporary New Caledonia could be described as almost experimental. The territory is engaged in an innovative process of decolonisation and, within the next ten years or so, should witness the emergence of a New Caledonian citizenship, transcending the ethnic divisions engendered by colonisation through the elaboration of a « common destiny ». As a breeding ground for the inequalities which the current re-balancing process is attempting to alleviate, the educational system has been a key focus for Kanak independence movement demands over the last thirty years. This article presents some data from the first inquiries with parents whose children are involved in Kanak languages and culture classes, which have been included in the new curriculum, no longer national but local, since 2005. This recent inclusion seems to have encountered some forms of support which override community boundaries, since speaking a vernacular language is seen as a way of asserting one’s membership in a truly « local » community. What can we learn from developments in the social demand regarding a new multilingual educational system of interethnic coexistence that New Caledonians are committed to define?