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BD, manga, manfra, Nouvelle Manga: distinctions au moyen des matériaux de l’énonciation
Authors: Rheault Sylvain
Published: December 2018

La popularité des mangas a suscité l’émergence en France de nouveaux artistes qui en imitent le style et qui produisent ce qu’on appelle des « manfras ». Frédéric Boilet, dans son Manifeste de la Nouvelle Manga, propose une approche hybride combinant certains éléments du manga et de la BD. L’article propose de mettre en lumières les distinctions entre BD, manga, manfra et Nouvelle Manga au moyen des éléments de l’énonciation tels qu’on les trouve dans la Clé des procédés littéraires, mais qui ont à l’origine été proposés par Roman Jakobson.
On the problem of defining manga: A study about the influence of Taoism and Zen Buddhism on manga aesthetics
Authors: Canário Tiago
Published: December 2018

Since the expansion of Japanese comic books throughout western countries, the so-called “manga style” has get attention from audiences and theorists. But how can we identify such Japaneseness? Trying to fulfill readers` interests, books have been published under the how-to-draw-manga label, usually highlighting the visual composition of characters, from clothes to facial expressions to hairstyle. From the academic perspective, particularities of page layout have been also considered since Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle`s idea of tabularity. Such structuralist perspective is also echoed by contemporary scholars such as Benoît Peeters and Thierry Groensteen. Investigations on what is called the “grammar of mangas” were also proposed by Neil Cohn or Scott McCloud (or at least based on his contributions). But what are they referring to by “manga”? Artists from all around the world translate mangas into transnational experiences. This study proposes a wider understanding of the manga narrative style and its particular aesthetic influence on readers. The study focuses on the Asian philosophies of Tao and Buddhism, identifying how their ideals are articulated to promote reader’s immersion in the narrative. The article investigates the visual representations of the Taoist idea of vacuum and the Zen idea of trivia, which characterize the visual and narrative fluidity of manga – especially those whose stories are based on everyday life.
Parcours figuratif de la femme dans la bande dessinée Aya de Yopougon de Marguerite Abouet et Clément Oubrerie
Authors: Goufo Zemmo Leslie
Published: December 2018

Le présent article se propose de faire une analyse sémiotique du parcours figuratif de la femme noire dans la bande dessinée africaine Aya de Yopougon de M. Abouet et C. Oubrerie. Cette bande dessinée aborde implicitement la question de la responsabilité énonciative de la femme africaine en tant qu’acteur discursif dans le neuvième art. Nous montrons notamment comment la construction identitaire de cette dernière se faire progressivement au fil des tomes (1 à 6) pour aboutir à un figure linguistique autonome et complète. Cela est rendu possible à travers la segmentation cohérente du récit qui permet de dégager les différentes phases de son processus d’élévation sociale. Ce dernier part notamment de l’altérité qui la pose comme inférieure aux hommes, pour ensuite lui permettre de se découvrir en tant que personne entière. Ce qui en fin de compte contribue à définir son identité sociale, du moins dans la bande dessinée. Une identité qui contribue à poser cette bande dessinée comme un récit engagé qui voudrait, à sa manière convaincre les lectrices africaines à penser autrement leur être dans la société.
Dufranne Michel et Séverine Lefebvre, Le journal d'une Femen, Paris : Lombard, 2014.
Authors: Mouret Philippe
Published: December 2018

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« Nous tournoyons dans la nuit et nous voilà consumés par son feu » : portraits littéraires du terroriste en rejeton du spectacle.
Authors: Huppe Justine
Published: December 2018

Depuis le début du XXIe siècle, la démocratisation d’Internet et de ses relais (téléphones intelligents, tablettes, ordinateurs portables) a rebattu les cartes du paysage médiatique, augmentant le nombre de producteurs et de récepteurs d’informations. Les images et vidéos ont ainsi acquis un spectre d’action élargi, bien que fortement concurrencé. Les terroristes l’ont bien compris qui, pour se faire entendre et propager leur message, adoptent des codes visuels et scénaristiques aussi violents que spectaculaires. Dans ce contexte, un certain nombre de romans s’attèlent à mettre en lumière les relations entre le terrorisme et les médias, entre la violence des attentats et le monde – financier, culturel, médiatique – qu’ils prétendent abattre. Notre contribution s’attache à décrire cette dénonciation du capitalisme en établissant sa dette envers le concept debordien de « spectacle » : le capitalisme déréalise les expériences et récupère la critique, de sorte que même dans l’extériorité qu’elle tente de se ménager, la contestation terroriste hérite de ses logiques et modes de fonctionnement. Les krachs et les bombes semblent donc brûler du même feu, prétexte à détourner le dernier film de Debord (In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, 1978) dans notre titre. En déplaçant certaines des thèses de Guy Debord sur le terrain de la fiction, il semble que le roman contemporain se les réapproprie, rendant toute son actualité à la pensée du situationniste.
De scènes terroristes et d’imaginaire social
Authors: Maazouzi Djemaa
Published: December 2018

Travaillant « au carré » des tentatives d’appréhension, évaluation, compréhension des réalités liées au terrorisme, les œuvres littéraires et artistiques qui fabriquent elles-mêmes de l’imaginaire social les redonnent à leur tour à lire et à comprendre en les diffractant. Elles livrent ainsi, à nouveaux frais, la « scène terroriste ». Sur un large spectre de possibilités allant de l’harmonie à l’aporie, de la reconduction doxique au scandale marginalisé, elles charrient dans sa mise en récit, par le simulacre et les déformations poétiques et stylistiques, somme de relations et d’interactions entre divers acteurs sociaux. Dans ce carrefour global, circulent, se croisent et se contaminent discours médiatiques, politiques ou encore philosophiques, moult représentations et valeurs.
Le théâtre francophone à Calgary et ses publics –la recherche de communautés identitaires caractérisées par la dispersion et la pluralité, ouvertes à la diversité
Authors: Forsyth Louise
Published: December 2018

Cet article trace l'histoire plutôt difficile des diverses étapes de l'activité théâtrale francophone à Calgary. L'auteure insiste surtout sur les obstacles créés par l'absence centenaire dans cette ville d'un quartier francophone, et donc d'une collectivité cohérente.
Gérard Mousseron – 40 années de francophonie à Calgary : Une étude de cas
Authors: Mossière Gilles
Published: December 2018

Le fait francophone se vit au quotidien en Alberta, et c’est cette dimension que nous avons choisi d’explorer : en nous appuyant sur les travaux sociologiques bien connus du professeur Robert Stebbins – The Franco-Calgarians (1994) et The French Enigma (2000) –, nous nous intéresserons au personnage de Gérard Mousseron qui habite à Calgary depuis 40 ans. Entre fiction et Histoire, entre biographie et littérature, et à l’aide de données personnelles, professionnelles et culturelles, nous identifierons son engagement linguistique et ses rapports avec la communauté symbolique qu’est la francophonie calgaréenne. Nous tenterons ainsi de cerner les composantes identitaires de ce personnage. Dans The Franco-Calgarians, Robert Stebbins met de l’avant que la sphère des loisirs joue un rôle essentiel dans la configuration identitaire des Franco-Calgaréens, rôle qu’il perçoit encore plus important que les domaines traditionnels du milieu familial ou de l’éducation. Bien des choses ont changé depuis la publication de cet ouvrage en 1994, et nous verrons comment les données de l’enquête menée par Stebbins s’appliquent au cas de Gérard Mousseron. Nous tenterons d’illustrer la valeur de cette expérience de 40 années de francophonie à Calgary, à la fois dans le contexte de l’existence de ce personnage et de celui de sa communauté, et essaierons d’entrevoir ce que cette expérience peut représenter à court, moyen et long termes.

Abstract

“Francophonie” in Alberta is not limited to its history: it is lived and experienced on a daily basis, and it is that aspect we wish to address in this article. Based both on Robert Stebbins’ sociological research published in The Franco-Calgarians (1994) and The French Enigma (2000), and on the life of Gérard Mousseron who has been a Calgary resident for 40 years, this article rides the thin line between fiction and History, biography and literature. Using personal, professional and cultural data, we identify Mousseron’s linguistic involvement and his relationships with the symbolic francophone community in Calgary. In The Franco-Calgarians, Stebbins stresses the centrality of leisure in the identity of Franco-Calgarians, a domain he perceives as more important than the traditional spheres of family or education. While we recognize that many things have changed in the francophone community since Stebbins’s study in 1994, we will see how his approach can still be useful in the case of Gérard Mousseron. We illustrate the value of his 40 years in Calgary in terms of both his personal existence and that of his community, and we identify what it can represent in the short, medium and long-term range.
Introduction
Authors: Lemaire Eva
Published: December 2018

Introduction pour le numéro thématique avril 2018
Françoise Lalande et ses hommes tristes
Authors: Romeral Francisca
Published: December 2018

Cet article s’intéresse à la façon dont la beauté et la douleur sont remises en perspective dans l’œuvre de Françoise Lalande comme support de vie à la fois artistique, spirituel et biologique. Il cherche à montrer comment des personnages divers, et en particulier celui du gringo de La Séduction des hommes tristes, sont porteurs de ces éléments fondateurs de toute existence et en même temps déclencheurs de souvenirs et de création selon l’écrivaine. L’analyse essayera de montrer au moyen d’une lecture précise de quelques textes choisis par quels processus Lalande parvient à créer une œuvre partagée entre l’exaltation et l’effroi, une œuvre abondante en discours amoureux, dans laquelle sa propre existence se trouve reflétée. L’écrivaine insiste spécialement sur le recours à des biographies à demi imaginaires qui lui permettent d’approfondir son étude sur les destructions de l’âme dont ont été victimes aussi bien des êtres injustement oubliés que des génies vagabonds.
Utopies et angoisses de l’entre-deux identitaire chez les exilés/migrants africains : La Traversée nocturne d’Isaac Bazié
Authors: Cyr Pangop Kameni Alain
Published: December 2018

En tenant compte du contexte d’émergence et des contours de la notion d’utopie repérée chez Thomas More, la présente réflexion vise à présenter l’exemple de La Traversée nocturne d’Isaac Bazié, plus connu comme critique que comme auteur. Ce texte nous donne l’opportunité d’examiner le profil thématique et idéologique du roman francophone africain issu de l’immigration, en ce sens que La Traversée nocturne dit à la fois les difficultés de l’émigration, à la suite de Cheik Hamidou Kane, Alain Mabanckou et Fatou Diome, et celles de la vie au pays, dans le sillage de la critique sociale qui sous-tend le roman africain.
Détrôner Dieu et les médias : carnavalisation et hybridité dans Zéro mort de YB
Authors: Maazouzi Djemaa
Published: December 2018

Cet article propose l’analyse des procédés de carnavalisation et d’hybridation dans un roman de l’ex-chroniqueur de presse algérien YB. Avec pour toile de fond les années de guerre civile et pour thématique principale le salut d’un terroriste islamiste, ce roman inscrit les enjeux politiques et idéologiques en cours dans la société algérienne, en particulier à travers la reprise d’éléments de débats ─ sur le religieux notamment ─ non épuisés mais souvent biaisés, caricaturés par les médias eux-mêmes. Que ce soit en « resémantisant » la langue, en la métissant, en lui inoculant des « virus exogènes », YB, sur un registre comico-sérieux, brouille les cartes et pénètre un territoire qui profane un « littérairement correct » plutôt de bon ton dans la littérature algérienne d’expression française. Il prend la liberté de « casser » la langue et avec elle le discours tragique, le discours comique et même le discours historique.
L’allemand comme langue imaginaire chez Victor Hugo et Balzac
Authors: Bem Jeanne
Published: December 2018

Pour des écrivains comme Victor Hugo et Balzac, l’allemand n’est pas seulement « l’autre langue » par excellence. Au contact du français, l’allemand produit cette outre-langue que tout poète rêve d’approcher. Le premier texte étudié est extrait du Rhin. Dans la XXXVIIe lettre, un amusant dialogue en français s’établit entre le voyageur et le garçon de restaurant, à Schaffhouse. Dans ce dialogue, une langue allemande imaginaire tapie à l’arrière-plan du texte permet à Hugo de défigurer le français, confrontant le lecteur avec une langue maternelle soudain énigmatique et méconnaissable, mais créatrice. L’écrivain s’est aussi servi du principe de non-coïncidence entre oralité et écriture. Une transgression encore plus marquée se rencontre dans le travail de Balzac, quand il met en scène un personnage qui apparaît dans plusieurs des romans de La Comédie humaine : le banquier Nucingen. Ce personnage à l’identité indécise (est-il Alsacien, Allemand, Polonais, Juif ?) existe uniquement par sa parole. Or dans un roman, la parole ne peut qu’être écrite. La parole de Nucingen est écrite, mais elle est à peine lisible. C’est justement en écrivant que Balzac a pu inventer l’impossible langue de Nucingen. Et il est intéressant de noter qu’il l’a inventée à un stade tardif, sur les épreuves d’imprimerie.
Marie-Claire Blais en traduction ou la Weltliteratur en action
Authors: Grutman Rainier
Published: December 2018

Loin de se laisser réduire à une bibliothèque de chefs-d’œuvre, la notion de « littérature mondiale » (Weltliteratur) lancée par Goethe en 1827 renvoie plutôt à un commerce d’idées non dépourvu de concurrence. Cette dimension agonistique a été mise en relief par Pascale Casanova dans son livre La République mondiale des lettres. Elle conçoit cette dernière comme un espace où les écrivains de différentes nationalités entrent en lice et en concurrence, grâce notamment à la traduction, qui apparaît dès lors « comme l’une des voies principales de consécration des auteurs et des textes ». Où situer la francophonie dans cette constellation ? Quel en est le poids relatif, aussi bien comme fournisseur de textes-source que comme relais de textes-cible ? Si Casanova s’est penchée sur le deuxième aspect, cet article porte sur la première partie de la question. L’exemple qui servira de pierre de touche est Une saison dans la vie d’Emmanuel de Marie-Claire Blais, roman dont on connaît mal la trajectoire en traduction. Comme nous essayerons de le montrer, celle-ci passe moins par la consécration parisienne que par le relais américain, notamment grâce aux multiples interventions du grand critique Edmund Wilson, responsable de sa « traduction-consécration » new-yorkaise.
Traduire le roman africain francophone en slovène
Authors: Zakrajšek Katja
Published: December 2018

L’article commence par quelques considérations générales sur les littératures europhones en Afrique, notamment sur les relations complexes et assymétriques entre le contexte culturel original et la langue d’écriture. Dans ces conditions, les stratégies textuelles, et par corollaire, les choix de traduction, possèdent inévitablement une charge politique. La première partie présente une analyse bakhtinienne de certaines stratégies textuelles plus radicales, adoptées par différents écrivains africains francophones ; l’accent est mis sur les questions de l’appropriation de langue et de la représentation littéraire de pratiques linguistiques, particulièrement de l’hétéroglossie sociale, de ses implications sociales et politiques, dans les textes postcoloniaux écrits dans une langue européenne. À la lumière de cette analyse, la seconde partie explore les stratégies de traduction possibles, notamment dans les « petites » langues européennes, exemplifiées par le slovène. Selon le cas, ces stratégies peuvent comprendre la construction d’un nouveau registre virtuel dans la langue cible ; des transformations structurelles de la langue cible pour représenter celles opérées dans l’original déjà-traduit ; et l’adaptation de la translittération du matériau non traduit enchâssé. La discussion s’appuie en partie sur des traductions déjà existantes en slovène. L’auteure plaide pour une approche de traduction non assimilatrice, orientée vers la recréation, par les moyens de la langue cible et de l’hétéroglossie représentée et orchestrée par le texte source. Une telle stratégie aboutit à un texte qui se présente explicitement comme traduction : opérant une médiation entre des positions culturelles fluides, plurielles et hybrides, ce texte demande une participation active tant du lecteur que du traducteur, faisant valoir le « droit de l’autre à l’opacité » et ouvrant de nouvelles voies de communication entre des positions culturelles non dominantes.
Le Dipoula de Sti et Pahé : un Titeuf mal noirci ? Endroits et envers de la Francophonie à travers une bande dessinée franco-gabonaise
Authors: Obiang Ludovic
Published: December 2018

L’album Dipoula, paru aux éditions Paquet (2008), représente le fruit d’une collaboration formelle entre un scénariste français (Sti) et un dessinateur gabonais (Pahé). Le personnage éponyme Dipoula endure le double handicap d’être à la fois orphelin et albinos, le premier étant la conséquence du second. Le texte est un florilège des gags que multiplie Dipoula au sein de l’orphelinat à la porte duquel ses parents l’ont abandonné. Du fait que l’album affirme à la fois son engagement idéologique (condamner la stigmatisation de l’albinos) et son enracinement sociologique, l’on pourrait s’interroger sur les stratégies adoptées par les auteurs pour construire le vraisemblable et se rallier ainsi l’adhésion du public. L’enjeu consiste à examiner la pertinence pour un auteur français de restituer une société gabonaise qu’il ne connaît que superficiellement. L’on finirait ainsi par s’interroger sur le lectorat visé et sur les motivations inavouées des partenaires (scénaristes, dessinateur et éditeurs). Mais plus largement, cette production n’est-elle pas la preuve qu’un rapport déséquilibré entre les forces en présence nuira toujours à l’idéal de partage et de dialogue cher à la Francophonie ?
Sur la traduction du théâtre francophone africain : l’exemple de Werewere Liking
Authors: Raschi Nataša
Published: December 2018

Nous concentrons ici notre attention sur la toute dernière production de Werewere Liking – Le Parler-Chanter et Médée – que nous avons traduite en italien. Auteur de pièces de théâtre, d’essais et de romans, mais aussi metteur en scène, peintre et écrivain, elle est originaire du Cameroun et, en 1985, a fondé à Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) un groupe de création artistique panafricain : la communauté du Village Ki-Yi. S’agissant d’œuvres créées en vue de la représentation scénique, plus aptes à être vues que lues, nous analysons les traits essentiels de ces textes, les multiples options offertes par la traduction et surtout les résultats obtenus.
Bibliographie sommaire de travaux critiques sur le thème « traduction et francophonie » en langues anglaise et française
Authors: Mungoshi Chiratidzo
Published: December 2018

Bibliographie des travaux critiques produits sur la question de la traduction des textes francophones en anglais.
South Asian Canadian Young Men and Women’s Interest Development in Science: Perception of Contextual Influences
Authors: Mani Priya S.
Published: December 2018

The purpose of this descriptive case study was to examine the contextual and cultural influences on interest development in science for 24 Canadian South Asian young adults. Within this study, aspects pertaining to socialization with respect to self-efficacy and outcome expectations of engaging in the sciences, are consistent with existing formulations on South Asian families. Additionally, the study provides information as to the relationship between South Asian young adults’ cultural identification to contend with decision-making and perceptions of efficacy (individual and collective efficacy). Finally, this study broadens our understanding of how South Asians develop an interest in the sciences and the support of parents and siblings in helping participants prepare for their future. Implications for counselling practice and future research are discussed.
Parental Mental Illness and Coping: An Exploratory Survey
Authors: Baker Lisa , Lees Rob
Published: December 2018

The prevalence of Mental Health Concerns (MHC) among parents whose children are accessing services from a mental health outpatient center was explored, along with what helps and hinders the coping of those parents identified as having diagnosed or suspected MHC. Participants were selected based on interviews with their child’s mental health clinician who identified 71% of the selected families as having at least one parent with diagnosed or suspected MHC. Semi-structured phone interviews with 28 participants in those families were then conducted. Given the diversity and problem with language depicting mental illness, MHC was the rubric adopted for this paper as it was believed to be less of a problematic label. A qualitative research design provided a deeper understanding into the resources that parents utilize to help them cope, the challenges that make it more difficult for them to do well, and the supports they wish they had. There was a high correlation between clinician perception and participant self-report in indicating the presence of MHC. Resources revealed as helpful to parent coping included the assistance of counselling and medical professionals, community and family supports, and medication. Hindrances to parent coping included lack of finances, parenting stress, and difficulties related to MHC. Parents wished there were more services and supports available across professional and community domains. Findings may provide insight for family centered, integrative program ideas and supports that will increase family coping when both parents and children are dealing with MHC.
Is There Racial Discrimination in Police Stop-and-Searches of Black Youth? A Toronto Case Study
Authors: Meng Yunliang , Giwa Sulaimon , Anucha Uzo
Published: December 2018

Our study investigated racial profiling of Black youth in Toronto and linked this racial profiling to urban disadvantage theory, which highlights neighbourhood-level processes. Our findings provide empirical evidence suggesting that because of racial profiling, Black youth are subject to disproportionately more stops for gun-, traffic-, drug-, and suspicious activity-related reasons. Moreover, they show that drug-related stop-and-searches of Black youth occur most excessively in neighbourhoods where more White people reside and are less disadvantaged, demonstrating that race-and-place profiling of Black youth exists in police stop-and-search practices. This study shows that the theoretical literature in sociology on neighbourhood characteristics can contribute to an understanding of the relationship between race and police stops in the context of neighbourhood. It also discusses the negative impact of racial profiling on Black youth.
Review of: Kruk, E. (2011). Divorced Fathers: Children’s Needs and Parental Responsibilities. Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing
Authors: Donnelly Mikaela
Published: December 2018

Reviewed by: Mikaela Donnelly
Review of: Totten, M.D. (2001). Guys, Gangs and Girlfriend Abuse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Authors: Gregresh Samantha
Published: December 2018

Reviewed by: Samantha Gregresh
Review of: Totten, M. (2000). Guys, Gangs, & Girlfriend Abuse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Authors: Green Jameson
Published: December 2018

Reviewed by: Jameson Green
Review of: Totten, M.D. (2001). Guys, Gangs and Girlfriend Abuse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Authors: Sroujie Sabriya
Published: December 2018

Reviewed by: Sabriya Sroujie
Can Canadian Women Have it All? How Limited Access to Affordable Child Care Restricts Freedom and Choice
Authors: Telford Nicole
Published: December 2018

The objective of this essay is to provide an historical account of the attempts made to implement a universal child care policy in Canada. Since World War II, we have been seeing large numbers of women entering the workforce and have had no centralized child care policy in place. This contributes to role strain on women as there appears to be little choice in work and family life. This paper explores the effort made by the feminist movement and women’s advocates to establish a universal child care system. I hope to achieve a clear understanding that the need for child care remains an equality issue. Throughout this paper, I will shed light on the effects child care has on women, their families, and society. I will also address the current policies in place and what is to come under the new Liberal government.
A Child’s Family Relationship and Emotional Well-Being through Self-Regulated Learning in South Korea
Authors: Yun Youngbae , Choi Jihye
Published: December 2018

This paper focuses on the relationship between a child’s family relationship, emotional well-being, and self-regulated learning in Korea. The sample of this study consisted of 527 elementary school students who were selected from three different schools in South Korea. The data were collected using the family relationship scale, the self-regulated learning scale, and the emotional well-being scale. The results showed that the structural equation modeling analysis was a good model fit to indices. Family relationship such as cohesion or conflict had a direct and indirect effect on a student’s emotional well-being. Also, family cohesion and family conflict indirectly influenced a child’s emotional well-being through self-regulated learning. It was also evident that there were significant grade differences in the students' emotional well-being where 5th graders had higher positive emotions than 6th graders and 6th graders had higher family conflict than 5th graders. To sum up the findings, there was clear evidence that a positive family relationship predicted a student’s emotional well-being directly and anticipated a child’s emotional well-being indirectly through self-regulated learning.
How Socioeconomic Status Influences Fathers’ Involvement with their Children and the Cycle it Produces
Authors: Fofonoff Emily
Published: December 2018

The intent of this paper is to examine the current evidence that fathers of lower socioeconomic status are less involved with their children in areas such as childrearing, homework help, and supporting the family emotionally and financially. Other areas covered in this paper include the possible reasons and theories as to why low socioeconomic status tends to lead to low father involvement. The effects of low father involvement on the children is also discussed, and this concept is furthered in order to explain the cycle of socioeconomic status that these effects create. Possible solutions are derived using the current theories, the intent of which are to help solve this problematic cycle. This paper also includes extensions beyond the scope of low and middle socioeconomic status fathers to include high socioeconomic status fathers.
Examining the Association between Parent and Child Sport Participation in Canada: A General Social Survey Study
Authors: Larocca Victoria , Wilson Stuart , Cavaliere Andrea
Published: December 2018

Research has shown a relationship between parent sport participation and child sport participation. With a sample of 1,064 respondents from the 2010 General Social Survey, this study examined how child sport participation is associated with parent sport participation, household income, parent education level, and parent sex. Results found that respondents with a child aged 5-12 who participated in sport over the past 12 months were more likely to have done so themselves too. (OR = 4.39, 95% CI = 2.44-7.89, p < 0.001). Significant differences (p < 0.001) were additionally found for the respondent’s education, age, and total household income. However, no significant differences were found for sex (p = 0.13). These results suggest that evidence-based interventions targeted at parents who do not participate in sport may increase children’s participation. Further research is encouraged to take a more holistic approach to analyzing childhood sport participation.
Incarceration, Relationships, and Belonging: Insights into the Experiences of Two Male Youth Recently Released from Custody Facilities
Authors: King April , Sider Steve
Published: December 2018

This paper explores the family, school, and community experiences of two male youth who had recently been released from custody facilities and how these experiences contributed to their sense of belonging and self-esteem. Addressing the limited literature on self-esteem and belonging of young men who had been incarcerated, the exploratory study considers key themes of trust, family, friendships, and perceptions of belonging and self-esteem which emerge from interviews and guided journal writing sessions. A key finding is that alternative literacy programs, such as journal writing, provide mechanisms to engage young men in building their self-esteem and sense of belonging. The paper concludes with recommendations for teachers, community program facilitators, and social workers to support marginalized youth after having been released from incarceration as they re-enter family and community life.
“It was a Meaningless Job”: Exploring Youth Post-Secondary Students’ Employment in the Fast Food Industry
Authors: Woodhall-Melnik Julia
Published: December 2018

Fast food work is often described as low-skilled, alienating, standardized, and highly routinized. The fast food industry employs a disproportionately large number of youth post-secondary students who work on a temporary basis and do so part-time or during school breaks to earn money toward educational and living expenses. To date, little is known about post-secondary student fast food workers’ perceptions of their employment. Data from interviews with 32 post-secondary student fast food workers were analyzed. The student workers viewed their jobs as unimportant and low-skilled; however, as students, they were not seeking work that provided opportunities for creativity and meaning, rather, they emphasized the temporary nature of their work and described the inherent stigma and lack of prestige associated with long-term employment in the fast food industry. The students were critical of longer-term workers and animosity between student and non-student workers was expressed. These findings suggest that identity management theories, such as Ashforth and Kreiner’s dirty work, may be better suited to understanding students’ participation in fast food work than traditional Marxist frameworks.
A Compilation of Song Lyrics Relating to the Family
Authors: Poirier Theresa
Published: December 2018

Five years ago, I began a quest for enjoyment which has evolved and expanded into an epic journey. A ukulele for X-mas quickly gave way to the guitar. While attaining a degree as a sociologist, at 55 years of age, I blossomed to become a musician, poet, author, artist, and performer. With nearly 160 completed pieces of music alone, I have amassed a portfolio any artist would be proud to have. I have composed songs for a Metis language webpage, and painted a wall mural at MacEwan University. I have had song lyrics and stories published. I hold my own on the same stages with some of Edmonton’s finest musicians and poets. Inspiration comes from life’s many ups and downs. I dare to call myself a prodigy since I am self-taught in all my art. However, currently, I am in my 3rd year of psychology, at MacEwan University for a 2nd degree, allowing me to practise music/art therapy. Sweet Baby is a song about anticipating the birth of my first grandchild, yet written through the eyes of the mother to be. Epic Odyssey is my story, events of my life Who Needs TV is also about my life, alcoholism, and family. So Shy is about watching the reactions of children to my busking in the LRT (light rail transit) station in Edmonton, Alberta. The Day My Boyfriend Died, indeed humor, was a black thought put into prose.
Does Pocahontas Count? Sites of Engaged Process for Critical Literacy
Authors: Hauge Chelsey
Published: December 2018

This paper details my involvement as director of a media literacy program that brought together American And Nicaraguan youth to produce media about social issues. Grounded in civic engagement, youth leadership and media literacy, the program provided youth with media equipment and a series of workshops on digital literacy. Youth decided for their final project to re-create the colonial narrative Pocahontas. To me, this signaled a failure of critical media literacy programming to guide young people to tell critical stories. On further examination, I came to relate to this occurrence in a deeper way, wondering how they came to tell this story and discovering something rich and creative underneath the final product. In this paper, I explore the production process for this video, pushing at the boundaries of what constitutes both media literacy and civic engagement, and asking questions about how we understand what constitutes critical media literacy. Instead, I propose that when we focus on the product as what evidences critical literacy or civic engagement, we lose sight of the method. In this case, method was the home of powerful processes of literacy engagement around issues of class and race that were obscured by the use of the colonial narrative. This paper explores this tension, in order to both examine the challenges around producing a final product inextricably tied to colonial patterns of gender inequality and to give voice to the rich practices of critical literacy that the production process initiated.
Improving Child Well-Being? Restructuring Child Welfare Programs in the Liberal Welfare States
Authors: Baker Maureen
Published: December 2018

For over a century, the ‘liberal’ welfare states have shared ideas about social provision and faced similar socioeconomic and political pressures to restructure their social programs. This paper discusses some of the historic and current pressures on these states to develop and restructure child welfare services. I argue that international ideas about children’s rights and ‘best practices’ have always influenced the development of these programs but current restructuring is more often shaped by concerns about public spending and the role of the state in family life. Despite the potential for governments in these ‘rich’ nations to enhance the wellbeing of children, unhealthy practices are permitted to continue.
The Impact of Cultural Values, Family Involvement and Health Services on Mental Health and Mental Illness
Authors: Tarnovetskaia Anastasia , Hopper Cook Linda
Published: December 2018

This paper explores the impact of cultural values, the role of the family, access to and usage of culturally acceptable health services for three distinct Canadian cultural groups. Specifically the paper examines the mind/body/spirit connection, the cultural impact of formal or informal social support, as well as access and willingness to seek help in the context of mental health among Canadian Aboriginals, Chinese and Asian Indian cultures. Three diseases that have been documented only within Canadian Aboriginal, Chinese and Asian Indian cultures are also examined. Through using examples from three separate and very distinct cultures, this paper hopes to foster a greater cross-cultural understanding of mental health and mental illness.
Change, Self-organization and the Search for Causality in Educational Research and Practice
Authors: Koopmans Matthijs
Published: December 2018

Causality is an inextricable part of the educational process, as our understanding of what works in education depends on our ability to make causal attributions. Yet, the research and policy literature in education tends to define causality narrowly as the attribution of educational outcomes to intervention effects in a randomized control trial context. This reduction of the educational process to simple input – output relationships leaves important questions unattended about how change is produced in educational systems, and how observed results can be predicted based on the propensity toward change in the baseline settings of those systems. This paper considers these questions from a Complex Dynamical Systems perspective, and concludes that answers to them can qualify the findings from at least some experiments.
The Intelligence of Complexity: Do the Ethical Aims of Research and Intervention in Education Not Lead Us to a New Discourse "On the Study Methods of our Time"
Authors: Le Moigne Jean-Louis
Published: December 2018

To better appreciate the contribution of the ‘paradigm of complexity’ in Educational sciences, this paper proposes a framework discussing its cultural and historical roots. First, it focuses on Giambattista Vico’s (1668-1744) critique of René Descartes’ method (1637), contrasting Cartesian’s principles (evidence, disjunction, linear causality and enumeration), with the open rationality of the ‘ingenium’ (capacity to establish relationships and contextualize). Acknowledging the teleological character of scientific inquiry (Bachelard) and the inseparability between ‘subject’ and ‘object’, the second part of the text explores the relevance of ‘designo’ (intentional design) implemented by Leonardo da Vinci (1453-1519) in order to identify and formulate problems encountered by researchers. Referring to contemporary epistemologists (Bachelard, Valéry, Simon, Morin), this contribution finally questions the relationships between the ‘ingenio’ (pragmatic intelligence), the ‘designo’ (modeling method) and ethics. It proposes one to conceive the paradigm of complexity through the relationships it establishes between (pragmatic) action, (epistemic) reflection and meditation (ethics).
Thoughts on a Pedagogy OF Complexity
Authors: Byrne David
Published: December 2018

There is now a developed and extensive literature on the implications of the ‘complexity frame of reference’ (Castellani & Hafferty, 2009) for education in general and pedagogy in particular. This includes a wide range of interesting contributions which consider how complexity can inform, inter alia, research on educational systems (Cochran-Smith et al., 2014; Radford, 2008) and theories of learning (Mercer, 2011; Fromberg, 2010), as well as work dealing with specific pedagogical domains including physical education (Atencio et al., 2014, Tan et al. 2010), clinical education and in particular the learning of clinical teams (Noel et al., 2013; Bleakley, 2010; Gonnering, 2010), and learning in relation to systems engineering (Thompson et al., 2011, Foster et al., 2001). This material has contributed considerably to my thinking about the subject matter of this essay which is not the implications of complexity for pedagogy but rather how we might develop a pedagogy OF complexity and, more specifically, a pedagogy of what Morin (2008) has called ‘general’ (as opposed to ‘restricted’) complexity. In other words how should we teach the complexity frame of reference to students at all appropriate educational levels?
Bifurcation and Hysteresis Effects in Student Performance: The Signature of Complexity and Chaos in Educational Research
Authors: Stamovlasis Dimitrios
Published: December 2018

This paper addresses some methodological issues concerning traditional linear approaches and shows the need for a paradigm shift in education research towards the Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NDS) framework. It presents a quantitative piece of research aiming to test the nonlinear dynamical hypothesis in education. It applies catastrophe theory and demonstrates that students’ achievements in science education could be described by a cusp model, where two cognitive variables are implemented as controls - the logical thinking as the asymmetry and the field dependence/independence as the bifurcation respectively. The results support the nonlinear hypothesis by providing the empirical evidence for bifurcation and hysteresis effects in students’ performance. Interpretation of the model is provided and implications and fundamental epistemological issues are discussed.
Reconceptualizing dominant discourses in early childhood education: Exploring ‘readiness’ as an active-ethical-relation
Authors: Evans Katherine Helen Louise
Published: December 2018

This paper considers that the landscape of early childhood education in England is dominated by discourses of 'readiness-for-school' and 'readiness-for-learning’ that act to heavily stratify the educational spaces inhabited by young children.  The 'ready-child' is constructed as a normative identity towards which the ‘unready’ child is expected to progress.  The confinement of children within such predetermined subject positions is considered problematic, as inevitably not all children will achieve these normative ideals, resulting in their exclusion from positions of 'success', as defined by dominant educational narratives.  In response to these concerns, this article seeks to disrupt dominant conceptualizations of 'readiness' in the context of early childhood education, attempting to produce a rupture in the educational landscape, expanding space for alternative ideas, theories and practices.  In a deliberate move away from concepts that relate 'readiness' to predefined goals, outcomes and identities, this article explores the possibility of thinking with a complex logic in order to generate new ideas, understandings and practices.  Approaching complexity from the ‘outside-in’, this paper draws in particular on the concept of 'becoming' (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987), exploring 'readiness' as a complex process of emergence, always open to the unpredictable and the new.  It is argued that ‘readiness’ is part of an open-ended ‘becoming’, rather than a pre-defined ‘state’.  Drawing on the work of Deleuze (1983), Deleuze and Guattari (1987) and Dewey (1899/2010; 1916), this reconceptualized idea of 'readiness' does not hark back to romantic notions that might consider all forms of development equally valid or desirable.  This paper argues, instead, that it matters greatly what and how children ‘become’ and as such, ‘readiness’ for these emergent ‘becomings’ must be considered an ethical and political endeavor.
Complexity, pedagogy, play: On using technology within emergent learning structures with young learners
Authors: Laidlaw Linda , Wong Suzanna Sohar
Published: December 2018

This article presents and describes how we have used notions and structures informed by complexity thinking to shape new descriptions and approaches to understanding “new literacy” practices with young learners. Using data from two studies: a two year project working with kindergarten children using drama and digital tools to develop narrative, and the other an observational study of preschooler’s multiliteracy practices occurring in their home settings, we explore how notions from complexity can offer innovative frames for teaching and learning and options for thinking about pedagogy differently. Our classroom and home observations of children’s developing digital literacy practices suggest that using complexity-informed approaches to technology can include both theoretical orientation and practical possibilities for organizing classroom learning structures.
Perspectives on Complexity, Its Definition and Applications in the Field
Authors: Koopmans Matthijs
Published: December 2018

There is considerable variation in the dynamical literature in how the term ‘complexity’ is used. While there have been several attempts to describe from an educational perspective what complexity encompasses, the term is frequently used without an explicit definition. To forge a shared understanding of what complexity means, the purpose of this article is to define the term for the field in a way that acknowledges the variety of use that is encountered in the education. Four perspectives on complexity are offered: 1) Information theory, 2) Cybernetics and general systems theory, 3) The use of complexity to describe scenarios of transformation and 4) Complexity as a metatheory. The implications of each of these four conceptualizations for educational research and practice are discussed.
Integrated School-Based Teacher Education: From Apprenticeship to a Complex Learning System
Authors: Collins Steve , Ting Hermia
Published: December 2018

This article differentiates approaches to school-based teacher education. It contrasts the pervasive apprenticeship model, to a "naturally integrated" school-based teacher education program that we describe as a complex learning system. Rather than view teacher education as fragmented by separating educational theory (physically based on a university campus) and teaching practice (based in a school and resembling an apprenticeship), we favor an approach where all coursework is integrated with practice in a host school while maintaining close connections to the university. The latter model highlights learning as contextualized in school, focussed on the whole school, yet also informed by progressive educational thought. All participants in the school environment (not just university students) are at once both learners and teachers. Just as university-based aspects of teacher education suffer from a lack of practical relevance, we anticipate that any model of school-based teacher education will have to address the effects of context overwhelming theoretical learning, philosophical understandings, and generalization to other contexts. We claim that a complex learning system model is better able to mitigate these contextual effects. We propose an approach to address this issue through both "reduction" and "complexity".
On Reinventing Education in the Age of Complexity: A Vygotsky-­inspired Generative Complexity Approach
Authors: Jorg Ton
Published: December 2018

Reinventing education is the ultimate aim of this contribution. The approach taken is a radical new complexity-inspired bottom-up approach which shows complexity as the fount of creativity and innovation. Organizing complexity accordingly may be the foundation for a new complexified vision of education. It all starts with new thinking in complexity about how complexity is actually generated in the real world. Such thinking offers new kinds of complexity like generative and emergent complexity. The approach taken is very much inspired by the genius of Vygotsky, as a visitor from the future. His focus was not only process-oriented, but also very much possibility-oriented. His method was bottom-up, and opened new spaces of the possible, like the Zone of Proximal Development. Yet he was not able to deal with the problem of complexity in his days. He ‘simply’ lacked an adequate causal framework, which showed causation as a generative bottom-up process, to be linked with potential nonlinear effects over time. He could not explain what he saw as possible: the turning points and upheavals of learning and development. In this contribution the focus will be on the link between the new thinking in complexity and the causal, generative nature of complexity in the real world. This link may show the ontological creativity of the entire world in general, and of human learning and development in particular. It may show the power of generativity to unleash this creativity by a new way of theorizing on education. The complexity-inspired theory of development as generative change, as thriving on the generative power of interaction, is fundamental and foundational for this new theorizing.