巴黎高科的经验以及国立高等先进技术学校案例分析

法国现有的教育体制是历史传承的结果。他在理工科教育领域形成两大平行的教育体系:一个是综合性大学,一个是工程师学校。法国工程师学校非常重要的特点就是:学校与工业界密切合作,进行学生的培养;学校的许多教师就来自工业界;学生学习期间还要到工业企业去实习。这使国立高等先进技术学校和其他工程师学校成为法国高素质工程师的摇篮。     

A program analysis of Esuba: helping turn abuse around for inmates

This investigation is an empirical evaluation of Esuba, an abuse awareness program implemented in the Florida correctional system. Research has indicated a link between violent and abusive behavior and criminal activity. This study specifically addressed whether the Esuba program had an impact on offenders' self-esteem, stability of self, faith in people, and sensitivity to criticism as measured by the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The results from the application of the Esuba program to an incarcerated offender population are encouraging. The results suggest that the Esuba program does appear to significantly increase offenders' emotional self-preservation.     

Struggling for food sovereignty in the World March of Women

This contribution focuses on how food sovereignty is being re-signified as a feminist issue by a non-peasant transnational feminist network, the World March of Women. First, we review the feminist literature on women, gender and food sovereignty and make suggestions regarding how to conceptualize the latter to better analyze women’s and feminist struggles on this terrain. Second, we highlight the variety of discourses and practices through which food sovereignty is appropriated in the different spaces and scales of the March. Third, we identify the political dynamics that underlie the uneven deployment of the project of food sovereignty among the national coordinating bodies of the March. Our conclusion stresses the role of discursive articulations and of internal and external alliances as processes through which food sovereignty is both diffused and transformed, and draws some implications for the larger scholarship on food sovereignty.     

De la rentabilité municipale des développements résidentiels

Sommaire: Dans cette analyse, la rentabilité fiscale de trente et un projets résidentiels construits au Québec entre 1971 et 1976 est calculée selon l'approche générale des analyses d'impact fiscal. Les particularités et limites méthodologiques des études d'impact municipal sont décrites et le modèle utilisé ici est présenté en détail. On peut utiliser les résultats à des fins de réquisitoire contre l'étalement urbain ou de plaidoyer en faveur de la densification du développement. Cependant, on ne devrait pas chercher à trouver dans ces résultats une condamnation globale de la maison unifamiliale, ni des arguments qui pourraient inciter les municipalités québécoises à abandonner leur fonction traditionnelle de maître d'oeuvre des infrastructures résidentielles. Abstract: The fiscal profitability of thirty-one residential developments which took place in Quebec between 1971 and 1976 is measured within the general framework of fiscal impact analysis. The characteristics and limitations of municipal fiscal impact studies are outlined and a specific model is described. The results could be interpreted as a strong argument against urban sprawl and in favour of more compact residential patterns. Nevertheless, these conclusions should not be overextended and construed as arguments against single family oriented projects or in favour of jettisoning the tradition of leaving to Quebec municipalities the responsibility of providing and financing urban services.