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Interculturalism in the Classroom: Taking into Consideration Cultural Specificity in Interventions Year of publication: 2011 Author: Geneviève Audet Corporate author: McGill University. Faculty of Education This article presents an analysis of narratives of intercultural education practices at the preschool level. This analysis has lead to the sequencing of seven markers towards an ideal type of engagement with the child “of another culture.” The narratives of two of these markers point towards the necessity of taking into consideration cultural specificity in interventions from the perspective of establishing a rapport with the Other. 
Can “Living Together” Be Taught? Year of publication: 2013 Author: Maxime Plante Corporate author: McGill University. Faculty of Education The need to teach how to “live together” demonstrates its problematic nature. Indeed, is not living together problematic because it implies that we must by all means coexist, self and other, that is to say, to “live together” despite difference? Is it really possible to bring about a respect for this injunction through education? Two pitfalls are to be avoided. On one hand, that of an hermeneutical approach to education, which may violate the principle of respect for otherness even as it purports to teach it. On the other hand, that of considering ethics simply as total openness to difference. Between these two pitfalls is a difficult path to negotiate, that of a responsibility to educational choices inevitably bound to betray the Other. 
From Ethnocultural Diversity to Living Together: Examples of Future Teachers Using a Multicultural Approach to Education Year of publication: 2010 Author: Mirela Moldoveanu Corporate author: McGill University. Faculty of Education This text looks at how future teachers define multicultural education in order to discover its relevance and objectives in the context of living together. Nine masters students in an initial teacher training program at an Ontario university participated in an exploratory research study using qualitative data. The interpretation of the results led to the construction of a multicultural education model that attempts to legitimize the data within the framework of a differentiated pedagogical approach. 
Identity, DNA Typing and Citizenship: Philosophical Reflections Year of publication: 2010 Author: Marie-Hélène Parizeau Corporate author: Sociologie et sociétés In a context of globalization, migratory flows and the hunt for terrorists, how are biometrics, and, more specifically, the notion of the human DNA Typing, changing the individual’s relationship to his or her citizenship ?To try to answer this question, we review some of the theoretical aspects of citizenship and briefly outline the history of identification measures linked to the advent of citizenship. We then examine the current context of the use of biometrics for identification purposes and the reasons for its use as cited by the European Community and the United States. We more particularly look at the case of the human DNA Typing, using examples from Canada and the United States. The genetic footprint is related to personal identity based on Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity. We show how the ethno-racial criteria used by biometrics, together with the ideology of multiculturalism, are constructing, in the West, a new narration of the Other, of foreigners, which excludes them from the sphere of citizenship. 
The Fragile Unsustainable Environmental Participation: A Problematization Year of publication: 2009 Author: Stéphane La Branche Corporate author: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Éditions en environnement VertigO Sustainable development has become the way to achieve a triple objective: insure economic ands material development in a sustainable and democratic manner. Yet, the links between participatory democracy and environmental protection are not direct nor necessarily positive. This article offers, through literature reviews and case studies, to raise a few issues and paradoxes existing in the position that participation necessarily leads to better environment protection. Examples form dams, the fight against climate change and use of public transports will be given. This raises the fundamental governance question: what are the implications for governance of the refusal or resistance on the part of population at changing sufficiently their behaviours in matters of environmental protection and the fight against climate change? 
Intercultural and Inclusive Teacher Training: The Conceptualization and Operationalization of Professional Skills Year of publication: 2016 Author: Julie Larochelle-Audet | Corina Borri-Anadon | Maryse Potvin Corporate author: Éducation et francophonie In the context of globalization, educational systems, from elementary to university, must take into account the increasingly complex realities they face, especially in terms of skills that teachers need to develop. In this respect, on both political and scientific levels, the importance of training on ethnocultural, religious and linguistic diversity comes up regularly. However, a portrait of teacher training in Québec universities has revealed an overall deficiency in this area (Larochelle-Audet, Borri-Anadon, McAndrew and Potvin, 2013). While a competency-based approach has prevailed since 2001 in teacher training, an inter-university work group has begun to address this gap by enriching the Department of Education’s professional frame of reference on teacher competencies. The work of the group, presented in this article, is based on a critical analysis of the department’s frame of reference, which reveals an absence of tangible considerations on ethnocultural diversity and the objectives of intercultural and inclusive teacher training. The members of the group developed two methods aiming to add intercultural and inclusive competencies to the reference framework: the first proposes the integration of 21 components into the 12 existing professional competencies, and the second favours the addition of a new intercultural and inclusive competency. Their operationalization entails some limitations and risks, which are the subject of a discussion in this article. 
The Psyche of a Good Citizen: On the Psychology of Civic Virtue Year of publication: 2015 Author: Shelley Burtt Corporate author: Les ateliers de l'éthique What are the psychological sources of civic virtue in the republican tradition? This article identifies three: the education of the passions, the manipulation of interests, and the compulsion to duty. The author explores each and concludes that an appreciation of their distinctions suggests possibilities for reviving republican virtue in the modern world. 
Citizen Participation in Mali: Between Associative Mobilization and Political Engagement Year of publication: 2014 Author: Mathias Kuepie | Arouna Sougane Corporate author: Lien social et Politiques In this study we examine citizen engagement in Mali. We begin by discussing the concept of civil society associated with such engagement. We then draw on two sources of data (the 2006 light integrated household survey [ELIM] and the national election administrative reports) to analyse involvement in political and community life. The results show that even if most Malians have already taken part in political activities, only a small minority has actually ever voted, which is a crucial form of political participation. Another finding that raises questions is that the advantaged social groups are those that participate more in political activities, whereas the less advantaged are more likely to become involved in community life through associations. Lastly, participation in associations seems to encourage political participation, most probably because community involvement can awaken political consciousness, but also no doubt because involvement in associations can help increase one’s political influence. 
Education for Sustainable Development or Sustainable Development in Teaching History and Geography: Sociopolitical Issues and School Discipline Year of publication: 2013 Author: Nicole Tutiaux-Guillon Corporate author: Phronesis «Sustainable development» (SD) is in France since 2004 is a transdisciplinary and binding «education to» and is also the theme structuring the fifth degree program since 2008, and is included in other programs. These requirements are unevenly convergent and are encounter to structure of already built diciplines at the same time as the lack of stabilised reference-knowledge. How is the educational dimension (attitudes, values) articulated to disciplinary content ? What about the place given to political issues of SD? Education in SD as constitutive of a discipline isn’t at the expense of educational dimensions explicit or is it modify disciplinary model of history and geography? An empirical search provides tentative answers. The forms of work chosen by the teachers ranged from classical disciplinary practice and testing of trans / multidisciplinary between incitement to questioning and reflection and transmission of factual and impartial knowledge entrecomplexité and simplification. Behavior change is always assumed result of knowledge - sometimes educational activities. The textbooks reflect the same hesitation and are situated between neutralization / disciplinarisation of SD issues and explicitation of discussion and conflicts / implicante posture. The educational dimension and especially the question of political strongly divided the teachers. 
Connections Between Environmental Justice, Popular Ecologism and Eco-citizenship Year of publication: 2006 Author: Nayla Naoufal Corporate author: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Éditions en environnement VertigO Citizen movements connected to socio-ecological issues are increasing around the world : In the global North and South, people and communities are struggling against mining projects, against mega-projects, for the development of responsible and urban agriculture, against the inequities engendered by climate change, etc. This article examines historic and contemporary citizen movements linked to socio-ecological issues and underscores the evolution in their claims : Initially, environmental justice was exclusively reactive and focused on local cases of disproportional exposure to environmental problems ; today, it is also proactive, increasingly transnational and, in some cases, holistic. I also address the current of popular environmentalism and its links with environmental justice. Then, I probe environmental justice theoretical discourses and identify a framework that is relevant in light of contemporary struggles. Last, I present the concept of ecocitizenship, as well as a typology pertaining to this term, based on an exhaustive review of the scientific literature and on the study of ecocitizenships developed by young community gardeners. It appears that the ecocitizenship that is both critical and participative is of particular interest for environmental justice.