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Citizenship Education at School Year of publication: 2012 Author: Jacques Racine Corporate author: Relations Special Issue of Relations intitled "Our democracy (23 articles) 
Religious Traditions and Models of Citizenship Education: The Heritage of a Normative Universe Year of publication: 2015 Author: Félix Mathieu | Guy Laforest Corporate author: Politique et Sociétés (Canada) This article explores the significant links existing between France’s, England’s, and Quebec’s citizenship education curriculum and their respective religious traditions, which all derive from Christianity, that is their core and common affiliation. Based on the premise that religion, as a cultural fact, leaves a profound and lasting imprint on contemporary societies, the authors show that the values and ideals issued from those religious traditions are more or less transposed into the French’s, English’s and Québécois’s models of citizenship education. 
Anti-racist, Inclusive and Human Rights Education in the Development of Professional Competencies for School Personnel and Student Capabilities Year of publication: 2017 Author: Maryse Potvin Corporate author: Éthique en éducation et en formation This article examines the differences and convergences that emerge from the major theoretical trends in the area of education for ethnocultural (inter/multicultural, anti-racist/critical, civic, inclusive) diversity regarding the professional skills school personnel must acquire to achieve the major objectives of equity, effectiveness of rights, harmonious living and the development of students’ capabilities. The article is based on a review of the national and international literature, which aimed to identify the skills (knowledge, expertise, soft skills) that are essential for knowing how to act in the context of diversity and that, according to theoreticians, should be developed in all teacher training programs. These issues are discussed from a crosscutting perspective rather than from a disciplinary angle related to the Quebec curriculum (ethics and religious culture, history and education for citizenship). The article begins by providing some background on these trends in order to identify their common objectives and convergence toward an integrated and inclusive global approach. It then examines two objectives supported by all theoreticians in terms of the core professional skills needed by school personnel for developing students’ capabilities: 1) taking into account the realities, needs and rights of students, particularly those in minority or vulnerable groups, and 2) preparing students to live together in a pluralistic and democratic society. As well, it identifies the key challenges involved in the consideration and implementation of these two goals. 
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. 
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. 
The Contribution of Teachers to the Relevance of Basic Education in West Africa: The Case of Senegal Year of publication: 2016 Author: Thibaut Lauwerier Corporate author: McGill University. Faculty of Education This paper seeks to understand the contribution of teachers to quality basic education in Senegal, with a particular focus on the concept of education “relevance.” After a detour looking at the characterization of the concepts of quality and relevance, we contextualize the situation of teachers in Senegal, then present the benefits of exploring the links between these concepts and the teacher issue. From a methodological point of view, the data mainly come from interviews and observations. It is clear from our analysis that, in general, teachers are not in a position to enable relevant education. However, the research highlights some factors that enhance relevance. 
Responsibility in Education: Transformations, Ruptures and Contradictions Year of publication: 2015 Author: Claude Gendron | Nancy Bouchard Corporate author: Revue des sciences de l’éducation If education has always been connected with responsibility simply because the word educare by definition involves nourishing, raising, cultivating, the past few years have witnessed, both in Quebec and in Europe, a redefinition in various ways of the sharing of responsibilities among participants in the educational system. This text presents the principal areas concerned by this redefinition (school management, educators, learners) and briefly analyzes certain issues and tensions caused by it in terms of moral responsibility and the main meanings assigned to it in the scientific literature. Moreover, it introduces articles of this special issue that report research analyses and results which eloquently illustrate various contemporary dimensions of responsibility in education. 
Between Colonial Heritage and Political Autonomy. Comparing the Experience of Australian, American and Canadian Aboriginal Peoples in the Turmoil of Welfare State Reform Year of publication: 2016 Author: Martin Papillon Corporate author: Lien social et Politiques Long excluded, then victims of forced assimilation, aboriginal peoples are now evaluating the conditions of their belonging to and participation in citizenship regimes in these three former colonies. The processes of welfare state restructuring may influence the dynamic of identity claims of aboriginal peoples, by modifying the parameters of social citizenship and the relations that aboriginal peoples have with the state. These reforms lean, on the one hand, towards integrated policy with targeted programmes and, on the other hand, towards greater local autonomy in programme management. The post-war citizenship regime in contrast favoured a uniform relationship between citizens and the state, thereby setting up a contradiction between the terms of the citizenship regime and maintenance of a distinct legal regime for aboriginal peoples. The current model seems less likely to constitute a block to recognition of multiplicity and differentiation. 
Teachers of History and the History and Citizenship Education Program: From the Transmission of a Memory to an Open and Subjective Citizenship Year of publication: 2013 Author: Louis LeVasseur | Sabrina Moisan | Jean-François Cardin Corporate author: Phronesis The current program «History and Citizenship Education» for the second cycle of secondary education, on the Quebec history, raised many comments in intellectual circles because of its content since 2006. Some argue that the transmission of major historical events that shape the collective or national memory is non-existent, others argue that it should promote the development of critical thinking and citizenship skills, thus the autonomy of the student facing the memory collective or national. What position secondary teachers do they have in this debate? It’s findable out through the teachers perceptions about program and its three skills. 
Citizenship and Citizenship Education: Gabonese Secondary School Teachers’ Point of Views Year of publication: 2013 Author: René Casimir Zoo Eyindanga Corporate author: McGill University. Faculty of Education The purpose of this paper is to identify the meanings that secondary school teachers (male and female) in Gabon give to citizenship and citizenship education. Sixty teachers, many of whom teach citizenship education, were surveyed. Set against a background of new social demands, the context of democracy is discussed, the latter requiring a renewed critical look at citizenship education in schools. The points of view expressed by the teachers taking part in the study echo their personal and professional experiences. Although open to participation, they reflect a normative conceptualization of citizenship education as well as an obligation to ensure a stronger citizenship education despite social and educational obstacles.