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Reconceptualization of Inclusion through Anti-Bias Curriculum
No full textTensions can arise when biased thoughts and practices are uncovered through discursive events in early years classrooms. This paper challenges the common practice of disregarding childhood curiosities in an attempt to ease tension and remove the risk of discomfort for some adults in caregiving and educating roles. Through a conceptual shift from a futurity of inclusion to an urgent call to action that problematizes the exclusion of nonhuman subjects within the curriculum, the construction and implementation of anti-bias curriculum is offered as a vehicle to the realization of holistically inclusive early learning spaces
Reconceptualizing Imaginary Friends: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Understanding Invisible Companions
No full textImaginary friends or invisible companions are common features of cross-cultural childhoods. Research is primarily located in developmental psychology, where invisible companions are considered part of imaginary play. We argue for a reconceptualization of the core phenomenon, to one of regularly interacting with a person who is not normally perceptible to others, instead of uncritically adopting the dominant Euro-Western ontology of imagination. Analyzing the central experience through other branches of psychology, anthropology, religion, and spirituality shows that different fields are potentially discussing the same phenomenon, albeit obscured by disciplinary boundaries. We outline some implications of this new approach for the development of childhood studies
Comparing Russia and China through their Borderlands: A Review of On the Edge, by Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey
No full textA book review of the 2021 Harvard U Press book On the Edge: Life along the Russia–China Border, by Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey
Restoration and management recommendations for Witty’s Lagoon Regional Park in Metchosin, BC, with special focus on Camissonia contorta habitat
No full textWitty’s Lagoon Regional Park in Metchosin, BC, comprises a number of different ecosystems and species, including several plant and bird species scheduled under Canada’s Species At Risk Act. One of these species is contorted-pod evening-primrose (Camissonia contorta), which lives in the coastal sand ecosystem found on the sand spit. Unfortunately, the sand spit and many other areas of the park have been degraded by invasive plants and human activity. This project has two primary goals: first, to identify and prioritize existing values and threats within the park boundaries, and second, to create a restoration plan for the sand spit. These goals were achieved by following the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation set out by the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP). Ten conservation targets and one human wellbeing target were chosen for the park. Field surveys were conducted to measure various indicators of health for each of the conservation targets. Miradi, CMP’s conservation software, was used to conduct viability analyses for each conservation target and threat ratings for the different threats affecting the targets. A situation diagram, which links targets to their threats and other influencing factors, was created for the entire park. Next, potential restoration strategies were identified for the sand spit. A results chain was created in Miradi to illustrate how each strategy would affect the associated targets and what type of activities would be required to achieve the desired restoration results. This project showcases a successful collaboration between local government, the community, and academic institutions, and offers an excellent example of quantitative, documented restoration planning that combines complex goals into a unified framework
La liste d\u27instruments de musique : un leitmotiv du récit médiéval
No full textThe list of musical instruments that accompanies the scenes of collective jubilation is a leitmotif of the medieval narrative. These passages raise the question of what distinguishes the narrative topos from other recurring elements in a narrative such as motives, clichés or rhetorical topos. We will see that those allow us to go beyond the simple rhetorical ornatus in order to draw the reader’s attention to the narrative instance responsible for this terminological deployment. In the texts considered in the article, the list of instruments highlights the literary and lexical competence of the narrator who then identifies as the figure of the minstrel associated with his performance and instruments.La liste d’instruments de musique qui accompagne les scènes de liesse collective est un leitmotiv du récit médiéval. Ces passages soulèvent la question de ce qui distingue le topos narratif d’autres éléments récurrents dans un récit tels que le motif, le cliché ou le topos rhétorique. On verra en effet qu’elles permettent d’aller au-delà du simple ornatus rhétorique pour attirer l’attention sur l’instance narrative responsable de ce déploiement terminologique. Dans les textes considérés dans l’article, la liste d’instruments fait valoir la compétence littéraire et lexicale du narrateur qui s’identifie ainsi à la figure du ménestrel associée à sa performance et à ses instruments
La harpe éolienne mise en scène dans la poésie et le roman européens
No full textThe Aeolian harp, starting to be built from the 17th century, is characterized by the singularity of its sounds which determine its narrative and poetic uses. Becoming an important topos of sentimentality, memory, melancholy and death, it becomes a means of seduction in Smollett, a fundamental tone of nature for German romanticism, an image of poetic inspiration for a Coleridge.La harpe éolienne, construite à partir du 17e siècle, est caractérisée par la singularité de ses sons qui déterminent ses emplois narratifs et poétiques. Devenue un topos important de la sentimentalité, du souvenir, de la mélancolie et de la mort, elle devient moyen de séduction chez Smollett, tonalité fondamentale de la nature pour le romantisme allemand, image de l’inspiration poétique pour un Coleridge
Sonorités du Graal: Bruits, voix et silence dans les scènes du Graal (XIIe - XIIIe siècles)
No full textThis study takes a look at Nature, at the narrative and philosophical effects and stakes of sounds -or the absence of sounds- which, in the novels of the Grail of the Middle Age, follow the appearances of this subject. In Chrétien de Troyes\u27 Perceval, The Story of the Grail, what is significant is not the silence of the Grail, but the silence of Perceval. From this first silent episode, which connects the narration to a sin of character, are followed scenes, in the novels in verse that aspire to complete the narration, as well as in the prose novels of the 13th century, where the vision of the Grail is associated to the topic of noises and voices, to the themes of songs and music, or even to a silence which is no longer the consequence of a fault, but a sign of plenitude, of grace, and of an harmony that “the tongue cannot say, nor the heart imagine.” From Perceval\u27s guilty silence, to the silence of the divine grace, ineffable mystical experience, the Grail scenes carried the characters a long way to internalize this trial, and to allow their hearts to hear the resonance of the voice of the real presence. As a quest for divine grace, the quest of the Grail leads the devotee of a sensory experience to a bliss in Deo, to the unity with the uncreated Breath, Verb which exceeds all intelligence. An itinerary towards God is the path towards silence. Cette étude s’intéresse à la nature, aux effets et aux enjeux narratifs et philosophiques des sons – ou de l’absence de sons – qui, dans les romans du Graal du Moyen Âge, accompagnent les apparitions de cet objet. Dans Le Conte du Graal de Chrétien de Troyes, ce qui fait sens n’est pas le silence du Graal, mais le silence de Perceval. À ce premier épisode, silencieux, que la narration rattache à un péché du personnage, font suite, dans les romans en vers qui aspirent à en achever la narration, ainsi que dans les romans en prose du xiiie siècle, des scènes où la vision du Graal est associée à une topique de bruits et de voix, aux topoï du chant et de la musique, voire à un silence qui n’est plus la conséquence d’une faute, mais le signe de la plénitude, de la grâce et d’une harmonie que « la langue ne peut dire, ni le cœur imaginer ». Du silence fautif de Perceval au silence de la grâce divine, expérience mystique ineffable, un long chemin a amené les protagonistes des scènes du Graal à intérioriser cette épreuve, et à faire résonner dans leur for intérieur la voix de la Présence réelle. Quête de la grâce divine, la quête du Graal conduit le fidèle de l’expérience sensorielle à la béatitude in Deo, à l’union avec le Souffle incréé, Verbe qui dépasse toute intelligence. L’itinéraire vers Dieu est un chemin vers le silence
Letter of Introduction
No full textA short overview of the issue by one of the journal\u27s managing editors
Asylum Seekers in Small Villages: Spatial Proximity and Integration in Italian and French Villages
No full textWhat happens when asylum seekers from African or Middle Eastern countries are resettled by authorities in small European villages? When they arrive, are they welcomed, or on the contrary, rejected by villagers? Generally speaking, overseas migrants usually wish to be resettled in large European cities. As for European villagers, they tend to form communities closed on themselves, so one might expect a rather cold reception. However, fieldwork in Italian and French villages where asylum-seeking migrants were resettled shows that this is not necessarily the case. Having observed resettlement experiences in the Italian region of Molise and the French region of Alsace, we discovered that, wherever migrants are hosted within the confines of a village, villagers get frequent opportunities to meet them, learn to communicate with them, and spontaneously offer help, especially to children, women, and whole families. The lack of a common language does not prevent day-to-day iwnteractions or development of interpersonal relations. Children go to school and are keen to learn the host society’s language; adult migrants receiving help want to reciprocate by working for free, thus allowing them to quickly learn European ways and skills. If most asylum seekers eventually leave for larger cities, the months spent in a village prove to be a useful step preparing them for further resettlement