Student Mobility and the Canadian Francophonie
The present era of globalization has given rise to new sociological questions on the different forms of mobility that characterize today’s societies (Urry, 2005), with student mobility sparking special interest (Pilote & Molgat, 2010). Issues linked to student mobility are not always closely related to the internationalization of higher education. In fact, the identity dynamics that exist in any mobility process can also be found within national borders.
La construction identitaire linguistique et culturelle durant un programme universitaire d’éducation en français en milieu minoritaire : Le cas de cinq étudiants fransaskois
Cet article porte sur le processus de construction identitaire d’etudiants universitaires fransaskois evoluant dans un programme d’education en francais en contexte minoritaire. Dans une approche interactionniste, l’identite est comprise comme le produit des diverses interactions dont un individu fait l’experience au cours de sa vie. L’analyse de cinq recits identitaires centree sur le discours des jeunes participants montre que la majorite d’entre eux ont un profil identitaire « affirmationniste strategique » et que plusieurs frontieres linguistiques ont permis de forger leur identite linguistique et culturelle. Ces derniers partagent un fort attachement envers leur identite fransaskoise. Les resultats de cette recherche exploratoire revelent que la formation universitaire a un impact sur la construction identitaire des participants.
Science Buddies: Advancing Informal Science Education
An innovative nonprofit enables scientists to present inspiring project ideas based on their own research to K–12 students, parents, and teachers. Every year, about 10 million North American kindergarten through high school (K–12) students complete a science project. What part of these science projects is the most difficult? Formulating a hypothesis? Designing an experiment? Analyzing data? The answer: None of the above. Science Buddies (www.sciencebuddies.org)—a nonprofit developer of software, content, and other resources for informal science and engineering education—found that students have the most difficulty selecting a topic and doing background research to inform their work. Meanwhile, scientists and engineers interested in advising and inspiring students often do not have a means to connect with them (see the first figure). To Science Buddies, these difficulties presented an ideal challenge, and we applied a business methodology to address them, viewing our users as customers and our output as products.