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Uniting Generations: Intergenerational and Universal-themed Picturebook Recommendations
No full textThis article offers picturebook recommendations for early childhood educators to use with young children across contexts (e.g., early childhoodclassrooms, intergenerational settings) as a starting point to support intergenerational programming
Appropriation de la modernité, retour à l’antique et inversion de la relation de maître à disciple : Diderot entre Eschyle et Updike.
No full textDu (M/m)entor au maître ou au guide, le tracé de la fonction de précepteur est attribué à divers auteurs qui se sont succédé dans les monarchies d’Occident, jusqu’à ce que Diderot vienne bousculer cet apparent consensus au XVIIIème s.: son évolution à cet égard est saisissante ; mais n’a-t-il pas changé de position pour des raisons liées à sa découverte de la figure de Prométhée dans le texte original grec ? Diderot n’est pas sans disciples parmi les post-modernes, y compris aux Etats-Unis. From (M/m)entor to master or guide, the function of the tutor /trainer has been mapped by various authors in Western monarchies. One man questioned this apparent consensus in XVIIIth c. France : Diderot‘s evolution in this respect is striking and the reason why his position shifted is clearly related to his discovering the character of Prometheus in the Greek text. He may still be found to have post-modern followers, even in contemporary America.
Connais-toi toi-même et tu connaîtras l\u27univers et les dieux, l‘initiation dans Archaos ou le jardin étincelant de C. Rochefort
No full textArchaos ou le jardin étincelant de Cristiane Rochefort, est une utopie post soixante-huitarde. L’apprentissage prôné dans ce roman, fait un pied de nez aux romans d’initiation traditionnels : les règles édictées ne le sont pas par un mentor exogène. Les maîtres à pensée classiques sont tournés en dérision. L’initiation tournée vers et pour soi-même, se fait par le biais de l’éducation sexuelle condition sine qua none de l’accession au pouvoir. Résolument féministe, ce roman repense le monde guidé par les femmes. Archaos est l’histoire d’un cheminement dionysiaque, qui sous couvert d’utopie politique, appelle à la mort symbolique et à une renaissance ésotérique sous l’égide de la déesse Isthar.Archaos ou le jardin étincelant by Cristiane Rochefort, is a post-May 68 utopia. The learning process prescribed in this novel parodies/mocks traditional coming-of-age novels: rules are not enacted by an exogenous mentor. Classical intellectual guides are ridiculed. The process of initiation is turned inward, toward the self, and is accomplished by way of sex education, the ultimate condition for access to power. Resolutely feminist, this novel reconsiders the world led by women. Archaos is the story of a Dionysian journey under the guise of a political utopia which calls for symbolic death and for an esoteric renaissance under the auspices of the goddess Isthar
L’échec du mentorat dans Les malheurs de l’amour (1747) de Madame de Tencin et dans Les Lettres du marquis de Roselle (1764) de Madame Élie de Beaumont
No full textLe roman du siècle des Lumières est riche en topoi mettant en scène le mentor : Madame de Tencin dans Les Malheurs de l’amour (1747) et Madame Élie de Beaumont dans les Lettres du marquis de Roselle (1764) sont particulièrement sensibles à la mise en scène de ce personnage qui évolue depuis Fénelon de manière dramatique. Dans les textes étudiés, ce conseiller avisé, souvent une femme, évoque une philosophie qui dépasse son symbolisme classique : souvent maître à penser, il devient lui-même un porte-parole désabusé des Lumières, mais il en sera lui-même/elle-même victime. Il/elle guide le mentoré/la mentorée à travers la forêt obscure des illusions passionnelles, celles de l’amour certes, mais celles engendrées surtout par le jeu quelque peu contradictoire des intérêts de classe, de la morale bourgeoise en mal de devenir et d’une aristocratie appauvrie, décadente et libertine.Le XVIIIe siècle voit une véritable métamorphose du mentor classique : il continue de remplir le rôle pluriel de conseiller, mais aussi de modèle d’ordre narratologique surtout chez Madame de Tencin –la référence obligée demeurant Madame de Lafayette. Davantage, le mentor devient au siècle des Lumières un être en chair et en os, sensuel et passionné et dont la morale atteint plutôt une dimension anthropologique, qui ausculte les lois et les sonde à la lumière de la raison. Le siècle des « libertins » est le siècle d’un mentorat repensé, calculé, teinté souvent de ce mal existentiel, résurgence des forces du « moi » double qui caractérise l’être, une philosophie inaugurée par Montaigne et qui trouvera ses échos chez Descartes ou Pascal entre autres. Ce mal persiste au siècle de la « raison » malgré l’optimisme qui semble le caractériser. Nous limitons notre analyse aux deux romans mentionnés dans l’intitulé, mais il serait souhaitable, dans des études ultérieures et pour enrichir la base des données de la SATOR, d’élargir le débat à d’autres romans des Lumières.The novel of the Enlightenment is rich in topoi evoking mentors: Madame de Tencin, in Les Malheurs de l’amour (1747) and Madame Élie de Beaumont in Lettres du marquis de Roselle (1764) are particularly keen to stage this character who has been evolving since Fenelon in quite a dramatic manner: in the texts studied, the mentor, a wise advisor, often a woman, alludes to a message that goes well beyond its ancient symbolism. However, this intellectual guide becomes the disillusioned spokesperson and, at the same time, the victim of the Enlightenment. S/he guides the mentee through the dark forest of deceptive passions, such as the obvious example of love, but also those passions born, above all, of the contradictory game of interests between social classes, the behaviour of a bourgeoisie desperate to be recognized, and the impoverished, decadent and libertine aristocracy.The 18th Century witnesses a transformation of the mentor as s/he was classically portrayed. The latter keeps on fulfilling his/her original role as an advisor, but also becomes a narratological model – particularly in Madame de Tencin’s fictions, for whom Madame de Lafayette, for example, remains the intellectual model to imitate. Moreover, the mentor becomes, during the Enlightenment, a being in the flesh, sensual, passionate, whose ethic is merely anthropological, who surveys and examines the laws through reason. The Age of the “libertine” is also the era of a reconsidered mentorship: a calculating character, the libertine-mentor is often tinged with existential evil, a resurgence of a double-edged “ego” which characterizes human beings, a philosophy inaugurated by Montaigne and echoed by Descartes and Pascal, among others. Evil lingers during the entire Enlightenment despite the optimism conveyed by reason. Although this analysis will focus on the two aforementioned novels, it would also be stimulating to further the study of this topos, by including several other novels which would expand and enrich the SATOR database
Variantes sur la figure du mentor au XVIIe siècle
No full textCet article explorera la figure du mentor dans des textes du XVIIe siècle en utilisant trois ressources électroniques, le logiciel d’analyse de texte Voyant, la base de données Satorbase, et BiblioToucher, une bibliothèque virtuelle de textes intégraux d’Ancien Régime. À partir des configurations de mentorat dans quatre textes bien différents (Le Voyage dans la lune, la Princesse de Clèves, Amelonde et l’étonnante Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville) les mots clés du mentorat seront identifiés et analysés (fréquence, distribution et collocations). Ceci permettra non seulement d’en tirer des topoï dans ces textes mais aussi de tenter de retrouver ces mêmes topoï dans d’autres textes de l’époque. This article will analyze the character of the mentor in Seventeenth Century novels through the use of three electronic resources : the textual analysis tool Voyant ; the Satorbase database of recurrent narrative sequences ; and the BiblioToucher virtual library of Ancien Régime texts. Using representations of mentoring in four quite different novels (Le Voyage dans la lune, la Princesse de Clèves, Amelonde and l’Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville) the key words associated with mentors will be identified and analyzed. This analysis will be applied to these and other texts of the period in an attempt to semi-automatically identify recurrent narrative sequences
Slingshots and Game Controllers: Video Games within Middle Eastern Conflicts
No full textThis essay will place a series of Middle Eastern-made video games into the political and military conflicts in which they are played. In contrast to scholarship focusing on how video games represent and narrate colonial and post-colonial reality onscreen, this paper will focus on how video games relate to their (Middle Eastern) players’ lived experiences of ongoing conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli conflict and the global “War on Terror.” This paper will survey a selection of six primary video games, all participating in the aforementioned conflicts: two by the Islamic State’s online supporters, two by the Syrian developer Afkar Media, and another two by Lebanon’s Hezbollah. This selection contains games which serve a variety of political languages, whether colonial-imperial, anti-imperial, or post-colonial. This paper intends to show how the political character of these games is tightly bound to the local context of the playership, in ways that turn games into propaganda. This essay seeks to challenge a Euro-American, middle-class ideal in video game studies that treats gameplay as escapism—giving excitement to players who are otherwise disconnected from the world of politics. Consequently, historical video games, divorced from reality, are measured by how well (or poorly) they simulate a past or present. Increasing the focus on video games’ meaning within some Middle Eastern gamers’ highly politicized social worlds could permit video game studies to open itself up to both global politics and specific regional histories
Facebook, Polymedia, Social Capital, and a Digital Family of Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers: A Case Study of The Voice of Singapore’s Invisible Hands
No full textRarely do female migrant domestic workers (MDWs) get a chance to narrate their own migration experience. Voice of Singapore’s Invisible Hands (or The Voice), which started as a literary community on Facebook, aims to reshape the dominant—negative—discourse on migrant workers, especially Indonesian MDWs, by providing access to their literary work. In a transnational migration setting, Facebook has been used as a tool to maintain people’s relations with their families and friends back home, as well as for making new friends. Connections gained between individuals become a form of social capital where people build social networks and establish norms of reciprocity and a sense of trustworthiness. In the early establishment of The Voice, Facebook helped its initiator gain social capital. Ultimately, this social capital benefits the community and its members. Over the course of The Voice’s development, other social media platforms, namely WhatsApp, Skype, and email, have been used in addition to Facebook because they offer a different set of features and affordances of privacy and frequency. This practice of switching from one media to another is an illustration of polymedia, in which all media operate as an integrated structure and each is defined in relation to other media. This study, which focused on the relation of Facebook, polymedia, and social capital in the context of The Voice, used integrated online and offline qualitative data-gathering methodologies. The study found that Facebook initially helped both the community, which began as a learning space for Indonesian MDWs who wanted to narrate their stories about their home and family, and its members in their efforts to reshape the negative dominant discourse on migrant workers. It was the affordances of polymedia, however, that paved the way for the formation later on of a digital family in which the members provide emotional support for each other, similar to what family and close friends do
Building Order: Manuel Tolsá and Late Colonial Neoclassical Civic Architecture in Mexico
No full textMuch research has been dedicated to neoclassical European architecture, but much less has been said about its dissemination in Latin America. This paper explores how Spanish architect Manuel Tolsá came to shape the experience of public space in a prominent cultural center of the Spanish empire. Through the revival of borrowed Greco-Roman forms, his vision was realized in the architecture of the colonial system’s public institutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This paper argues that neoclassical architecture embodies the Enlightenment ideal of rational order and reinforces the aims of the Bourbon reforms in the political context of pre-independence Mexico. By connecting the visual evidence of three buildings, the history of the contemporaneous social institutions, and the implications of architecture in public space, I critically examine a visible legacy of Mexico’s late colonial history
Sarrana Creek Restoration
No full textSarrana Creek is in the Dunster Community Forest about 240 kilometres southwest of Prince George British Columbia. The forest surrounding the creek has been impacted by Mountain Pine Beetle mortality and recently the community forest decided to clear-cut portions of the dead pine. The initial site assessment showed that the creek channel was no longer flowing and instead five braided streams flowed. One side of the creek the area was supersaturated with water making timber harvest and tree regeneration impossible. The forest manager assumed that the hydrological regime shift was due to dead pine blowdown. To understand the hydrological characteristics of the site a biophysical inventory, soil pits, slope assessment, and geological assessment was performed. The results showed that pine was not the root cause of the hydrological regime shift was a previous rockslide on the site had created a complex network of drainage systems. In addition, it appears that the site is in a phreatic zone where surface water and groundwater meet. In response to the findings of the study, the community forest decided to leave the area alone and notactively pursue and restoration of the site. The manager did install two new culverts at the site to mitigate future erosion and damage from the complex drainage area. Finally, a policy of retaining larger buffers around riparian areas was implemented because of the findings of the study