NCube/papyrus huggingface dataset:
Les rapports personnels des enseignants du primaire aux objets «variation» et «covariation» comme conséquence des choix institutionnels pour leur formation initiale

The following research is an exploratory study using the case study to characterize the personal relationships that primary preservice teachers build with the notions of variation and covariation during their initial training program. The notion of function is discussed considering, among others, its importance in educational programs at the secondary and difficulties students face when learning functions. To make students conceptualise the notion of function as a relationship between varying quantities requires first to make them acquire the notions of variation and covariation. This acquisition is possible from primary school through pre-algebraic activities using the sequences of numbers or patterns. This work should be supported by primary school teachers. That is why teacher training is also addressed in this research by looking, for example, the knowledge needed to teach mathematics and the gaps that may affect that training program. The research leans on the anthropological theory of the didactic (ATD) which has developed conceptual tools of the notion of relationship to knowledge. The ATD is a way to understand the choices made by an institution to organise the teaching of mathematical objects, and the meaning assigned to those objects and the consequences that result in learning. This understanding requires the analysis of practices that involve the objects of mathematical knowledge within any institution. Beyond the notions of institution, object of knowledge, about, it is mostly from the lighting of the notions of personal relationship and institutional relationship that the exploration of the personal relationships of the primary preservice teachers is lead. A content analysis of initial training of future teachers allows first examine the institutional relationship with the objects of variation and covariation in particular looking at the place and the role of these objects in the BEPEP institution. Then, a survey (questionnaire and interviews) tries to capture significant features of preservice teachers’ personal relationships with the same objects. Finally, the triangulation of the data collected from the initial training and from the survey attempts to determine whether personal relationships are the result of the institutional relationship. iv Results seem to indicate that mathematical and pedagogical activities involving numerical sequences, growing patterns, the notions of variation and covariation are not sufficiently present in the training program of our participants and, consequently, most of them are unable to efficiently use these activities and notions. This institutional void seems to affect the primary preservice teachers’ personal relationships that most part of them are unable to use these activities and notions.

Keyphrases: Notion of function, Notions of variation and covariation, Initial training, Personal relationship, Institutional relationship
Dream Content and its Relationship to Trait Anxiety

Empirical research suggests that dreams tend to reflect the contents of the dreamer’s waking thoughts and concerns. Studies on the relationship between dream content and various measures of personality, however, have yielded mixed results. While anxiety has been associated with various sleep disorders, including bad dreams and nightmares, little is known about the relation between anxiety and dream content. The present thesis aimed to investigate the link between trait anxiety and dream content in a healthy female population. Thirty women (mean age = 30.7 ± 12.2 years old) completed a standardized questionnaire measuring trait anxiety and completed a dream log over a 2-5 week period. In total, 502 dream reports were collected (mean number of dreams per participant = 16.7 ± 9.2 dreams) and scored on various dream content scales of a standardised dream codification system. It was hypothesized that trait anxiety would be positively correlated with the presence of negative dream elements, including number of aggressive interactions, misfortunes and bad dreams. In addition, it was hypothesized that trait anxiety will be positively associated with dream recall length. While the results of this investigation confirm the existence of a positive correlation (ρ=.38, p=.035) between trait anxiety and dream recall length, they also suggest that the dream content in itself is unrelated to trait anxiety. Two possibilities may account for these negative results. First, it is possible that trait anxiety has no impact on the dream content in a healthy population. Such interpretation is in line with the research suggesting that personality traits may have no effect on the dream content. The second possibility that could account for the negative results of this study is that the measures of trait anxiety used in this study were not sufficiently refined to reflect the multidimensional nature of anxiety, which may be essential to capture the link between trait anxiety and dream content. In fact, it may be important to use tools that are sensitive to the different types of anxiety (e.g., anxiety associated with social evaluation, physical danger, ambiguous situations, daily routines) in order to understand how trait anxiety affects dream content.

Keyphrases: Dream Content, Trait Anxiety, Nightmares, Bad Dreams, Continuity Hypothesis, Multidimensionality of Anxiety
L’appropriation des pratiques d’évaluation intégrée à l’apprentissage dans un contexte d’approche par compétences par les enseignants du secondaire au Mali

This research reports an experience which concerns accompanying Mali secondary school teachers adopt evaluation practices in line with the competency-based approach in place in the country. It seems that with regards to the persisting weaknesses of students, complaints from actors in the education field, the society and evaluation studies (OMAES report, 2014), the competency-based approach has not brought the desired changes, more specifically, as regards improvement in the quality of learning. Worse, it has led to a disarticulation of the school system, a significant drop in the academic performance of students and disorientation among teachers. According to Cros, De Ketele, Dembélé, Develay, Gauthier, Ghriss, and Teho, (2010), a lack of training and accompanying measures for teachers are the main reasons behind this situation. This lack is itself a consequence of a series of weaknesses and shortcomings at the structural, pedagogical, methodological and social level amongst others. This qualitative, participatory research was an opportunity to support teachers in their appropriation of new skills assessment practices in the context of the changes enjoined by the establishment of a new curriculum based on the APC. As part of a research-action process (Savoie-Zajc 2001, 2008) and using a process of questioning, reflection and adjustment of practices, the collaboration has highlighted the current evaluation practices by favoring the development of a critical point of view in the face of class practices; Theoretical insights into the principles underlying the formative assessment of competencies in the school environment have served as a framework for same. Finally, we discussed the importance of contextualization in the implementation of educational innovations and the negotiation process that this requires

Keyphrases: Competency based approach, Evaluation methods, Teachers in Mali, Action research
L'utilisation de la percussion comme élément structurant dans l'élaboration d'un langage musical

This master’s thesis presents the work done during my two years of studies in instrumental composition at Université de Montréal. It introduces five pieces and an analysis of each one of them to demonstrate my creative process and my musical language. In these five pieces, I wanted to deepen percussion writing to give it a privileged place through various ensembles, going from vocal pieces to a piece for percussions quartet, up to orchestral pieces. Through percussion, I put forward the rhythmic aspect of music with the use of varied rhythmic processes like polyrhythm, homorhythm, time signature changes, pulse games, accent games, periodicity, etc.

Keyphrases: Composition, Percussion, Music, Musical analysis, Rhythm
Quelques procédés d'organisation du discours harmonique chez Schubert

This master’s thesis provides analysis tools to highlight the internal consistency of Schubert’s harmonic language, especially in his late works. The analysis of a corpus including mainly his chamber music, his piano sonatas, and a selection of lieder, reveals some constants in the composer’s harmonic organization.  Confronted with both the richness of Schubert’s tonal writing and the limits of a master’s thesis, I have chosen two characteristic features of his harmonic style for study : his use of major-minor harmonies and his modulatory practice. First, the typology of the major-minor usages developed in this thesis allows for the specification of the nature of different phenomena related to them, while emphasizing their structural importance in the form. Thus, three types of application of the interchangeability of major and minor modes are identified: ornamentation within a chord (colouration), borrowing of chords from the opposite mode inside a harmonic structural unit (modal mixture), and modal shift between two successive harmonic structural units (mode opposition). Furthermore, the modulatory mechanisms explained in this thesis including the use of major-minor at pivot chords, chromatically altered VII chords, as well as the use of what Serge Gut identifies as « dominantes contrariées » cause an increase in tonal tension by linking remote tonalities and act as formal markers in the works of Schubert.  The mechanisms presented in this thesis advance our understanding of the harmonic logic that underlies Schubert’s works by drawing attention to the interaction between microstructure and macrostructure.

Keyphrases: Harmonie, Modulation, Harmony, Major-minor
Le café ou le néant. Enquête sur l’absurde dans le café romanesque français des années 1930-1950

Through the theme of the literary representation of the philosophical concept that is “l’absurde”, or, to put it another way, the theme of the thinness of existence, this article aims to shed a light on a major motif of the modern novel from the first half of the twentieth century: the cafe. We learn with Roquentin in “La Nausée” or with Sartre in “L’Être et le néant” that the cafe is a place where the existence is noticed, weighed and studied. We will focus on the opposition between the cafe as a fixed and humdrum location, and the street, full of turmoil and overturns. It is through this play between rest and speed, specific to the dialectic of the cafe and the street, that the novel is able to reflect the modern way of existence and, therefore, his own. This article will travel through two novels that have been chosen for their temporal and thematic complementarity: on one hand, Raymond Queneau’s “Le Chiendent” (1933), and on the other hand, Alain Robbe-Grillet’s “Les Gommes” (1953).

Keyphrases: Absurde
Mohammed Palimpsests : Nascent Islam in the Late Twentieth Century Novel

This study has as its subject Mohammed the Prophet, the fascinating rise of a humble man whose life and teachings have formed the grand narrative for Muslims the world over. It is entitled “Mohammed Palimpsests: Nascent Islam in the Late Twentieth Century Novel” and is based on a corpus comprised of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine (1991), and Driss Chraïbi’s L’Homme du Livre (1995). What they all share includes the genre novel, the brief time span in which the novels were published, the extent to which they rewrite the biography of Mohammed, and the at least nominal Muslim identity of their authors. Despite these similarities, institutional divisions have led to these seminal texts being discussed separately. Yet convinced that this is very much a dialogue that was waiting to happen, I bring these three novels into comparative focus in the desire for a more complete and varied understanding of the issues they bring to light. Chapter one looks at the complex intertextual relations that each novel maintains with a number of Islamic source texts, most notable of which is the Quran. It argues that intertextuality is not simply resourcing, but also creation and demonstrates the wealth of intertextual strategies used by these authors in their re-writings of Mohammed’s life. Chapter two is concerned with history. It examines the relation between fiction and history, historiography and notions of historical consciousness. In so doing, it considers various concepts of time (progress, stasis, return to the source) and historical knowledge. Theorists discussed include de Certeau, Kracauer, Laroui, and White. Chapter three examines gender. While all three authors clearly feminize the history of early Islam, making their accounts inclusive, they are equally concerned with masculinity. I therefore address the success of each of these efforts, from the purported “noble failure” (Spivak) of Rushdie, to Djebar’s notion of interrogative faith and multiple critique, and feminine spiritualism, which is given expression in Djebar and Chraïbi’s work. In this most interdisciplinary chapter, anthropological and psychoanalytical perspectives are used. I argue that Islam is very central to The Satanic Verses, Loin de Médine, and L’Homme du Livre. These novels not only narrate early Islam, they ultimately are engaged in opening it up to new interpretations, particularly for French and English-speaking Muslims who share their authors’ diasporic situation.

Keyphrases: Islam and the Novel, Intertextuality, Historiography, Gender, Salman Rushdie, Assia Djebar, Driss Chraïbi, Genre
Le retour en collectivité d’ex-détenus aînés présentant des problèmes de consommation d’alcool : défis et réflexions sur le plan de l’intervention

The aging of the prison population is an occurring reality. In the past few years, several studies have attempted to better understand this phenomenon in order to suggest solutions to adapt the prison facilities. Nonetheless, only a few of the researchers took interest at elderly inmates returning into the community. This reality is increasingly present and will represent many challenges from an intervention perspective. This internship report is therefore interested in better understanding the reality of former inmates with alcohol problems returning to the community. The objective is to begin a reflection on adapted and supportive intervention options. In order to do that, an 80 days internship was completed at CRC Beauce. More specifically, we conducted semi-structured interviews with five senior residents of the center, performed an analysis of their records, as well as a complete individual follow-up and in situ observations. These analyzes have enabled us to demonstrate that this group is experiencing several difficulties during their return to the community on various levels, such as health, employment, social network and finances. In addition, it was found that these difficulties have an impact on their stay at the CRC. Finally, facing this specific population's reality, we've brought forward the challenges that emerged to us on the intervention level and we started a thorough reflexion process on the type of interventions who needed to be made in priority. For that being done, general and specific clinical recommendations have been identified.

Keyphrases: Intervention, Old offender, Elderly inmate, Substance abuse, Alcoholism, Social reintegration, Theoretical approaches
Mesure des progrès des jeunes contrevenants de garde ouverte dans le cadre de l'activité clinique RÉZO

The Quebec government financed numerous measures of intervention, search and analysis upon the street gangs, presented by the Quebec intervention Plans of 2007-2010 and 2011-2014. The Assistant direction of youth program-adolescents and young offender rehabilitation proposes innovative actions concerning the gang problem, in particular in open custody in Cité-des-Prairies with the social Laboratory G.ART-C.I.T.E. The intervention model advocated for open custody is the program Aggression Replacement Training (Goldstein, Glick and Gibbs, 1998). This program was reshaped and in 2004 by adding the clinical activity RÉZO. This activity has for theoretical purpose to reduce the risk of recidivism in connection with the delinquent networks. However, the progress of the targeted youth has not been the object of any assessment. This report led to the following internship project: the measure of progress of the activity RÉZO participants. Its purpose was 1) to develop progresses measurement indicators, 2) to analyze the reliability of the instrument, 3) to test the usability of the Inventaire des progrès RÉZO (IDPR-Astier, Gélinas and Guay, 2016) and to assess the ergonomics and the relevance of the instrument. From the literature and the stakeholders’ experience, nine indicators were identified to develop the IDPR, in two versions (stakeholder and young people) (goal #1). Overall, in spite of methodological limits, the inter-rater agreement is satisfactory and the results of inter-rater reliability analysis are rated from "moderate" to "excellent" reliability (goal #2). About the goal #3: 1) the IDPR seems to allow for notify the youth progresses, 2) the indicators have to be revised regarding the topics and the possible answers, to measure more exactly the progresses, and to favor a common language between educators and youth ; some indicators have to be reviewed in order to be more consistent with the activity goals, and with the specific risk and protective factors of the young people associated with a delinquent network, 3) the implementation of the IDPR seems globally satisfactory but have to be improved in the future to allow an optimal functioning, 4) the data provided by the instrument is a relevant tool to be used in the frame of clinical discussions between educators and youth.

Keyphrases: progrès, assessment instruments, assessment, progress, young offenders, delinquent networks, street gangs
Fictions du vide. Scénario pour une enquête cinématographique et littéraire

This article, in the dual form of a scenario and an investigation, is a reflection deliberately open about what will be defined as “fictions of gap”, their different modes of occurrence and the various figures that they are able to offer. The starting point of the investigation is taken from Deleuze's thought on what the philosopher calls the cinematographic “small form”, with examples chosen from the filmography of Chaplin, Lubitsch and Mike Nichols. Then the investigation will take a literary turn to follow the intermedia path of the fictions of gap and thus to report their ability to adapt. Works considered, for different reasons, will be “In Search of Lost Time” and “Doctor Faustus”. This course will eventually bring the opportunity to examine the scope of the fictions of gap in relation to the concept of interpretation as an act.

Keyphrases: Proust, Marcel, Deleuze, Gilles
Performativité et éthique de la remédiation dans « Dora Bruder », de Patrick Modiano

What exactly do we mean by “disappearance”? Is it an event? A figure? The end of an existence? For Patrick Modiano, disapearance is rather a starting point for an act of writing that slips through a sum of mediations. The inextricable link between disappearance and (re)mediation is in fact the basis upon which I build my analysis of “Dora Bruder”’s opening pages from an intermedial stance. Ethical remediation and performativity will be the core concepts to analyse Modiano’s writing through the lens of disappearance.

Keyphrases: Modiano, Patrick, Dora Bruder
Imaginaire médiatique et dynamique du regard dans l’œuvre proustienne

This article proposes to analyze two major aspects of the novel « À la recherche du temps perdu » (”In search of lost time / Remembrance of things past”), by Marcel Proust : on one hand, what is called “l’imaginaire médiatique”, on the other hand, “la dynamique du regard”. Both are specific to the 19th century in France, time and place of major inventions for our cultural and artistic modernity. The proustian novel, a foot in the 19th century and the other in the 20th, seems thus like a catalyst and a frontier runner. The “time regained” by ”In search of lost time” is also that of the 19th century, precisely mediated by the novel. The deployment of these two sets of themes (the first questioning the problems of “mondanité” — social life, social network, social gossip and so on —, the second those of vision in a civilization of the eye) will be generally identified in the novel, after which two case studies (on newspapers and on photography) will be proposed to illustrate them.

Keyphrases: Proust, Marcel, À la recherche du temps perdu
Le rôle des déceptions dans « À la recherche du temps perdu » de Marcel Proust. Autofiction, crise du sujet et montage identitaire

“Remembrance of things past“ tells tales of learning for the proustian narrator on his way to becoming a literary figure, a path fraught with much deceit that will steer its hero towards nihilism. Such will be the case until the very end of “Time Regained“. Proustian deceit will be examined first through the filter of the character’s literary education, then from an autofiction angle. Indeed, deceit takes the narrator through a crisis of the subject, the only way out of which is through “autofiction“, a new literary process whose name took a few decades to coin. What one could describe as “proustian autofiction“ also leads the author to yet another concept we call “establishing identities“, in keeping with the research of Sophie-Jan Arrien and Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan on the development of identities, and based on Anne Henry’s recently published essay, “The Temptation of Marcel Proust“.

Keyphrases: Proust, Marcel, Autofiction
Proust et l'autofiction : vers un montage des identités

“Remembrance of things past“ is the story of an identity crisis, that of a subject who wishes to write, but does not succeed. With “Time regained“, it is the final revelation: the narrator finally understood certain laws, that he will have to observe and translate with his “telescope”, that is with his work of art, taken as an instrument or a machine. Thus, the proustian character is forced to create an original device to tell about oneself, a new hermeneutics of the subject, which makes “Remembrance of things past“ the first true autofiction, before its time. The proustian autofiction, by its work on our “inner self”, fights identity crisis and nihilism to propose a new editing of the identities.

Keyphrases: Proust, Marcel, Autofiction
Le discours moral corporatif comme récit portant sur l’éthique organisationnelle. Une approche inspirée par la philosophie de Paul Ricoeur

As the narrative about organizational ethics, corporate moral discourse is characterized by three elements: (1) the act of telling organizational life, as it is determined by memory and promise; (2) the fore-understanding of organizational life and the re-presentation of moral consciousness; (3) the world-dream as a re-reading/re-writing of organizational life. Two business corporations have been chosen: Walt Disney (entertainment for children and families) and Abbott (drugs). In each case, we will analyze the corporate citizenship annual report and the corporate code of ethics. On one hand, Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic philosophy will be used in order to unveil to what extent corporate moral discourse presents itself as narrative. On the other hand, our analyzis of the two corporate citizenship reports will reveal that such reports do not mirror any existential questioning.

Keyphrases: philosophy, ethics, CSR, organizational ethics, Ricoeur, philosophy, ethics, economics, RSE, Ricoeur