Un possible, impossible, la coproduction des connaissances entre science et société. La recherche est une activité sociale principalement déléguée aux chercheurs professionnels au sein des laboratoires académiques ou privés, dans une certaine mise à distance du reste de la société. A la faveur du « tournant participatif », des acteurs de la société civile sont invités aux côtés des chercheurs professionnels, par de nouveaux dispositifs de financement de la recherche, à contribuer à la production de connaissances nouvelles dans des domaines d’intérêt sociétal. Que se passe-t-il dans ces recherches collaboratives? Des connaissances scientifiques peuvent-elles y être co-construites ? Et de telles collaborations sont-elles en mesure de renouveler les modes de production de la connaissance déléguée aux chercheurs ? C’est au travers d’un regard qui postule la question de la traduction comme majeure dans l’émergence d’une possible co-construction entre acteurs et chercheurs qu’est conduite cette étude de dispositif de recherche collaborative. La traduction implique des plans multiples de l’interaction qui sont autant des manières de passer entre les registres de connaissances et les intérêts des uns et des autres que des interprétations qu’ils produisent pour leur donner du sens. Cette dimension centrale de la traduction entre des mondes scientifiques et associatifs est abordée dans une double perspective épistémologique. Une première approche issue de la sociologie de la traduction permet de saisir comment acteurs et chercheurs s’associent et relient leurs différentes identités et intérêts, ainsi que leurs savoirs et les différents objets de recherche pour réaliser des inscriptions scientifiques. Il en émerge des agencements collaboratifs dont les configurations plurielles témoignent de conditions de co-construction. Une seconde approche mobilise l’herméneutique de la traduction pour rendre compte des capacités d’interprétation et d’apprentissage qui peuvent émerger de ces collaborations de recherche. Elle place au cœur des interactions les capacités de délibération et de reconnaissance qui orientent les agencements collaboratifs vers une capacité collective de recherche.A l’issue de cette analyse, l’identification de conditions d’interaction favorisant la co-construction de connaissances entre acteurs de la société civile et chercheurs professionnels permet de réinterroger la possibilité d’inscrire, au côté des modes dominants de production scientifique, un mode de coproduction qui participe d’un renouvellement des rapports entre science et société. / A possible, impossible, the co-production of knowledge between science and society. Research is primarily a social activity delegated to professional researchers in academic and private laboratories, with a certain distancing from the rest of society. Taking advantage of the "participatory turn", actors in civil society are invited alongside professional researchers, with new research funding arrangements, to contribute to the production of new knowledge in areas of societal interest. What is happening in this collaborative research? Can scientific knowledge be co-constructed? And are such collaborations able to renew the modes of production of knowledge delegated to researchers?It is from this way of looking at things that the question is posited regarding translation as a major premise in the emergence of a possible joint construction between civil society actors and researchers who are driving this collaborative research plan. Translating involves multiple planes of interaction which are in as many ways, ways of passing between different people's different registers of knowledge and interests as they are interpretations which are produced to give these registers meaning. This central dimension of translation between scientific and associative worlds is addressed in a double epistemological perspective. A firstly sociological approach to translation captures how actors and researchers combine and link their different identities and interests and their knowledge and different research objects to achieve scientific inscriptions. Collaborative arrangements emerge from this with various configurations which demonstrate the conditions of co-construction. A second approach mobilizes the hermeneutics of translation to account for interpretation and learning abilities that can emerge from these research collaborations. It places deliberation and recognition capabilities at the heart of interactions, which guide collaborative arrangements towards a collective research capacity.Following this analysis, the identification of interaction conditions favouring the co-construction of knowledge between civil society actors and professional researchers can re-examine the possibility of including, alongside the dominant modes of scientific production, a way of co-producing which is part of a renewal of the relationship between science and society.

Ce mémoire propose de conceptualiser la culture organisationnelle d’un angle nouveau. Mary Jo Hatch (1993), dans son modèle de Cultural Dynamics, soutient que la culture d’une entreprise favorise la modulation de l’identité des individus y travaillant. Partant de cette affirmation, je me questionne à savoir si l’inverse est aussi possible. La culture de l’organisation et l’identité des individus y travaillant peuvent-ils évoluer dans une dynamique de co-construction? Afin d’étudier ce phénomène, j’ai mené une série d’entrevues selon la méthode du récit de vie au sein d’Empire Sports, une chaîne québécoise de boutiques de vente au détail d’articles de sports extrêmes. En me basant sur la théorie des communautés de pratiques, j’ai analysé et interprété les résultats obtenus lors des entrevues. J’arrive à identifier et à préciser ce phénomène de co-construction que j’interprète à l’aide d’un nouveau concept appelé la culture extrême. Comme cette recherche est exploratoire, les conclusions ouvrent la possibilité d’approfondir davantage les connaissances à propos de la culture extrême en l’examinant dans d’autres contextes organisationnels. / This Master’s thesis proposes looking at organizational culture in a new light. In her model of cultural dynamics, Mary Jo Hatch (1993) suggests that a company’s culture influences the identity of the individuals working there. Starting from this affirmation, I ask if the inverse is also possible. Do organizational culture and individual identities evolve together in a dynamic of co-construction? Using a method inspired by the « life story », I conducted a series of interviews at Empire Sports, a Quebec chain of boutiques specializing in extreme sports. I use the communities of practice framework to analyze and interpret the intreviews. My results identify a phenomenon of co-construction at work. I interpret this using a new concept which I call « extreme culture ». The conclusions of this exploratory research suggest that further research in other organizational contexts could be useful in deepening of the concept of extreme culture.

Les facteurs climatiques ainsi bien que les facteurs non-climatiques doivent être pris en considération dans le processus d'adaptation de l'agriculture aux changements et à la variabilité climatiques (CVC). Ce changement de paradigme met l'agent humain au centre du processus d'adaptation, ce qui peut conduire à une maladaptation. Suite aux débats sur les changements climatiques qui ont attiré l'attention scientifique et publique dans les années 1980 et 1990, l'agriculture canadienne est devenue un des points focaux de plusieurs études pionnières sur les CVC, un phénomène principalement dû à l’effet anthropique. Pour faire face aux CVC, ce n’est pas seulement la mitigation qui est importante mais aussi l’adaptation. Quand il s'agit de l'adaptation, c'est plutôt la variabilité climatique qui nous intéresse que simplement les augmentations moyennes des températures. L'objectif général de ce mémoire de maîtrise est d'améliorer la compréhension des processus d'adaptation et de construction de la capacité d'adaptation ai niveau de la ferme et de la communauté agricole à travers un processus ascendant, c’est-à-dire en utilisant l'approche de co-construction (qui peut également être considéré comme une stratégie d'adaptation en soi), pour développer une gestion et des outils de planification appropriés aux parties prenantes pour accroître ainsi la capacité d'adaptation de la communauté agricole. Pour y arriver, l'approche grounded theory est utilisée. Les résultats consistent de cinq catégories interdépendantes de codes élargis, conceptuellement distinctes et avec un plus grand niveau d'abstraction. La MRC du Haut-Richelieu a été choisie comme étude de cas en raison de plusieurs de ses dimensions agricoles, à part de ses conditions biophysiques favorables. 15 entrevues ont été menées avec les agriculteurs. Les résultats montrent que si certains agriculteurs ont reconnu les côtés positifs et négatifs des CVC, d’autres sont très optimistes à ce sujet comme se ils ne voient que le côté positif; d'où la nécessité de voir les deux côtés des CVC. Aussi, il y a encore une certaine incertitude liée aux CVC, qui vient de la désinformation et la désensibilisation des agriculteurs principalement en ce qui concerne les causes des CVC ainsi que la nature des événements climatiques. En outre, et compte tenu du fait que l'adaptation a plusieurs caractéristiques et types, il existe de nombreux types d'adaptation qui impliquent à la fois l'acteur privé et le gouvernement. De plus, les stratégies d'adaptation doivent être élaborées conjointement par les agriculteurs en concert avec d'autres acteurs, à commencer par les agronomes, car ils servent en tant que relais important entre les agriculteurs et d'autres parties prenantes telles que les institutions publiques et les entreprises privées. / Climatic as well as non-climatic factors should be taken into consideration in the process of agricultural adaptation to climate change and variability. Agricultural adaptation places the human agent at the centre of the adaptation process, which can lead to maladaptation. Following the discussions on climate change that have attracted scientific and public attention during the 1980s and 1990s, Canadian agriculture has become a focal point of several pioneering studies on climate change and variability (CCV), a phenomenon mainly due to the anthropogenic effect. To deal with CCV, it is not only mitigation that is important but also adaptation. When it comes to adaptation, it is rather climate variability that interests us than just the average increases in temperatures. The overall objective of this MSc thesis is to improve the understanding of the processes of adaptation and adaptive capacity at the farm and the farming community through a bottom-up process, i.e. using the approach of co-construction (which can also be considered as an adaptation strategy in itself), to develop appropriate management and planning tools and to build a better ability to adapt in the farming community. To achieve this, the grounded theory approach is used. The end results are five interrelated categories of expanded codes, conceptually distinct and with a greater level of abstraction. The RCM of Haut-Richelieu was chosen as the study site because of its several agricultural aspects, aside from its favourable biophysical conditions. 15 interviews were conducted with farmers. The results show that while some farmers recognized the positive and the negative side of CCV, the others are very optimistic about it as if they only see the positive side; hence the need to see both sides of CCV. Also, there is still some uncertainty related to CCV, which comes from disinformation and desensitization of the farmers mainly in relation to the causes of CCV along with the nature of climatic events. Moreover and given the fact that adaptation has many characteristics and types, there are many types of adaptation that involve both the private actor and the government. Furthermore, adaptation strategies should be developed jointly by farmers in concert with other actors, starting with the agronomists because they serve as important relays between farmers and other stakeholders such as public institutions and private companies.

Ce travail propose d’étudier la mobilisation du parler populaire lors de la couverture médiatique du match Égypte-Algérie par la presse généraliste et la presse spécialisée algérienne. Nos premières observations sur le traitement de l’évènement footballistique nous conduisent à supposer que le discours des journaux d’information générale n’est pas différent de celui des quotidiens de sport. La recherche propose, ainsi, de saisir les stratégies qui encadrent l’usage du parler populaire. Il s’agit d’analyser l’émergence d’une pratique info-communicationnelle qui peut s’inscrire dans une stratégie de pénétration du marché, à la recherche d’un lectorat élargi.L’analyse des jeux d’acteurs médiatiques, dans un contexte marqué par une crise mondiale de la presse écrite, envisage permet de montrer comment ces derniers ont recours au parler populaire, comme dispositif signifiant de captation et argument de vente. Pour appréhender cet enjeu, nous avons privilégié une approche qui ne néglige pas l’étude des identités éditoriales de chaque titre de presse. Nous proposons, de ce fait, de déconstruire les publications de quatre journaux de « référence », en défendant une méthodologie axée sur des aspects théoriques, alimentée par une analyse du discours, combinée à une étude quantifiée de l’évènement et appuyée sur les visions et discours d’autolégitimation sociale des professionnels algériens de l’information médiatique.Mots clés : Évènement médiatique, dispositif, cadre, co-construction, parler populaire, stratégie, tactique, identité éditoriale et loi de proximité. / This work suggests to study the mobilization of popular speech during the media coverage of Egypt-Algeria match by the French-written generalist press and the Algerian specialized press. Our first observations on the treatment of the football event, lead us to suppose that the discourse of the newspapers of general information is not different from the dailies of sport. Thus, the research suggests grasping the strategies which frame the use of popular speech. It consists of analyzing the emergence of a communicational-info practice that can be part of a market penetration strategy seeking for an enlarged readership.The analysis of media acting skills, in press global crisis context foresees to show how they make use of popular speech, as a significant capitation pattern and a selling argument. To apprehend this issue, it seems necessary to situate this work in an approach that does not neglect the study of editorial identities of each press title.Therefore, we suggest to deconstruct the publications of four "reference" newspapers by defending a methodology based on theoretical aspects. That methodology is supplied by discourse analysis combined with quantified study of the event and supported by the visions of Algerian professionals’ media information.Key words: Media event, device, framework, co-construction, popular speech strategy, tactics, editorial identity and proximity law

Ce mémoire propose de conceptualiser la culture organisationnelle d’un angle nouveau. Mary Jo Hatch (1993), dans son modèle de Cultural Dynamics, soutient que la culture d’une entreprise favorise la modulation de l’identité des individus y travaillant. Partant de cette affirmation, je me questionne à savoir si l’inverse est aussi possible. La culture de l’organisation et l’identité des individus y travaillant peuvent-ils évoluer dans une dynamique de co-construction? Afin d’étudier ce phénomène, j’ai mené une série d’entrevues selon la méthode du récit de vie au sein d’Empire Sports, une chaîne québécoise de boutiques de vente au détail d’articles de sports extrêmes. En me basant sur la théorie des communautés de pratiques, j’ai analysé et interprété les résultats obtenus lors des entrevues. J’arrive à identifier et à préciser ce phénomène de co-construction que j’interprète à l’aide d’un nouveau concept appelé la culture extrême. Comme cette recherche est exploratoire, les conclusions ouvrent la possibilité d’approfondir davantage les connaissances à propos de la culture extrême en l’examinant dans d’autres contextes organisationnels. / This Master’s thesis proposes looking at organizational culture in a new light. In her model of cultural dynamics, Mary Jo Hatch (1993) suggests that a company’s culture influences the identity of the individuals working there. Starting from this affirmation, I ask if the inverse is also possible. Do organizational culture and individual identities evolve together in a dynamic of co-construction? Using a method inspired by the « life story », I conducted a series of interviews at Empire Sports, a Quebec chain of boutiques specializing in extreme sports. I use the communities of practice framework to analyze and interpret the intreviews. My results identify a phenomenon of co-construction at work. I interpret this using a new concept which I call « extreme culture ». The conclusions of this exploratory research suggest that further research in other organizational contexts could be useful in deepening of the concept of extreme culture.

Les jeunes sont considérés par les pouvoirs publics comme une population particulièrement touchée par les conduites à risque, mais aussi comme un public difficile à atteindre par des messages de prévention. Les jeunes se détourneraient de cette logique de prévention pour de multiples raisons, dont le fait de considérer que leur capital santé est inépuisable ou encore que les questions de prévention ne les concernent pas encore. Face à ces difficultés et freins, ces dernières années ont vu apparaître, dans le domaine de la prévention en santé des jeunes et plus précisément dans le domaine de la communication sur la prévention des risques auprès des jeunes Français, un certain nombre d’actions sociales publiques qui s’opposent à la prescription forte, mais qui vont chercher une logique de co-construction des messages, c’est-à-dire qui essaient de faire passer le message préventif en associant le récepteur-destinataire dans la construction du message. Cette thèse vise à comprendre ce que sont véritablement ces nouvelles initiatives qui se veulent de co-construction des messages et comment elles fonctionnent : une attention particulière est portée à la manière dont se fait et se représente ce travail de co-construction des messages, sur les caractéristiques qui la décrivent le mieux et en quoi celle-ci contribue réellement à la construction du sens par le récepteur-destinataire. Elle articule, d’une part, une approche théorique basée sur une analyse de la littérature qui traite des populations juvéniles, de la santé des jeunes, des transformations du journalisme et du rapport entre jeunes et médias et, d’autre part, une approche empirique centrée sur un examen de trois objets distincts, qui mettent en évidence la tentative de trouver le moyen de faire passer le message préventif en associant le récepteur : les magazines pour adolescents, la Mission du bureau de la vie étudiante de l’IUT de Lannion et le dispositif de prévention rennais le Prév’en ville. Au cœur de cette double approche thématique (état de l’art et état social), ce sont les formes de co-construction des messages qui apparaissent, avec leurs logiques, leurs incertitudes, leurs tensions et leurs contradictions, mais toujours avec cette singularité qui est la leur : laisser la place au récepteur-destinataire, laisser la culture des récepteurs s’exprimer. / Young people are considered by the public authorities as a population who is particularly affected by at-risk behaviors, but also as a difficult audience to reach with preventive messages. Several reasons can explain why young people turn away this logic of prevention. Firstly, they think that their health capital is inexhaustible. Secondly, they feel that prevention issues do not concern them. Faced to these difficulties and these obstacles, some new initiatives are recently appeared and try to transmit preventive messages by associating the receiver in the construction of the message. This study aims to understand what are truly these new initiatives of co-construction’ messages. Special attention is paid to how co-constructed messages work, to characterize this phenomenon and to know how the co-constrction contributes to the understanding of the meaning by the receiver. It takes two approaches. The first one is theorical and is based on the analysis of the literature that deals with young people, youth health, transformations of journalism and the relationship between young people and the media. The second one is empirical and is based on the study of three examples:Teen magazines, Prév’en ville in Rennes and the “Bureau de la vie étudiante de l’IUT de Lannion”. At the heart of this dual approach, different forms of co-construction’ messages appear with their logics, their tensions and their contradictions, but always with their singularity: respecting the receiver and encourage the expression of the receiver’s culture.

This thesis is about the relationship between human bodies and instrumental technologies that can be use to measure them. It adopts the position that instruments are technological structures that evoke and manifest particular phenomena of embodied life. However, through their history of association and use in the sciences and scientific medicine, instruments tend to be attached to a particular ontology, that of mechanical objectivity. Embarking from research into the artistic uses of physiological sensor technology in creative practices such as performance and installation art, this thesis asks whether it is possible to use instruments in a way that departs from their association with scientific objectivity. Drawing on philosophers who have developed an understanding of the relationship of instrumental technologies and human bodies as co-constructive, it explores how this model of con-construction might be understood to offer an alternative ontology for understanding the use of instruments in practices outside of science and scientific medicine. The project is therefore suggestive of degrees of freedom and flexibility that are open to exploitation by creative practices in the realm of instrumentation as an alternative to orthodox rationalisations of the value of scientific equipment as authentic, revealing and objective. The major contribution of the thesis is that transfers and synthesises arguments and evidence from the history and philosophy of sciences that serve to demonstrate how the instrumental measurement of human bodies can be considered to be a form of creative practice. It assembles a position based on the work of thinkers from a number of disciplines, particularly philosophy of science, technology, and the medical humanities. These offer examples of ontological frameworks within which the difference between the realm of the instrumental, material, biological, and the objective, and the phenomenal, meaningful and subjective, might be collapsed. Doing this, the thesis sheds light on how physical devices might enter into the interplay of making, mattering and objectifying the immaterial, a realm that it might be considered the role of artists to manifest. Drawing on contemporary, and secondary, accounts of the development of empirical testing in the medical sciences, the thesis agues for the recovery of a romantic account of human physiology, in which the imagination and meaning are active and embodied. It therefore offers to link the bodily and the instrumental through an extended-materialist account in which the physiological, rather than the psychological, is central. Developing a response to constructionist models of the body and instrumentation, the thesis concludes that a model of the poetic may be adopted as a method for understanding the opportunities and imperatives inherent in the avoidance of deterministic approaches to biosignalling technologies. In doing this, the thesis contributes particularly to the creative arts and technology research practices concerned with the use of body sensor technologies in humanistic applications. It complements the existing works by artists in this area that make use of instruments by assembling a number of theoretical readings and interpretations of how instruments work – among them the thermometer, lie detector, and automatograph – which illustrate the argument that that is possible to operate from a theoretical position within which instruments are both material, performative and symbolic.

Thesis advisor: Rebecca Lowenhaupt / Purpose and Research Questions: Some educational reform efforts aim to support marginalized populations and narrow long-standing achievement and equity gaps, influencing the ways in which educators implement policy. While researchers have identified ways that educators implement policy, there is a research gap concerning how central office administrators implement policy in support of traditionally marginalized students. This study describes the policy implementation process of one central office administration team with the specific goal of supporting traditionally marginalized students, addressing two research questions: (1) In what ways are central office administrators working together to implement policy in support of traditionally marginalized students? (2) How do central office administrators balance external policy demands with internal goals when implementing policy in support of traditionally marginalized students? Methods: This qualitative study draws upon semi-structured interviews, observations, and document review to answer the aforementioned research questions. Findings: Central office administrators in this turnaround district organize policy work by dividing up tasks according to established goals and benchmarks, and communicating to other central office administrators regarding the progress towards meeting them. These goals and benchmarks represent the primary policy work designed to support traditionally marginalized students. Central office administrators have a shared understanding of and respect for the turnaround plan’s goals and benchmarks. Since this district is under state receivership, central office administrators face demands from the state department of education regarding progress towards meeting the goals of the turnaround plan. As part of this work, central office administrators bridge internal goals of the district to external pressures of the state Department of Education, forming a unique partnership between district and state actors. / Thesis (EdD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

Background: This research was designed to explore the experience and understanding of counsellors' and psychotherapists' engagement with metaphors in the therapeutic process. The aim is to reflect on the experience of therapists involved in therapeutic metaphors from differing perspectives. Methodology: In a heuristic study a group of seven therapists (counsellors and psychotherapists) shared their use of metaphors in their therapy practice. Data were collected through an informal conversational interview that supported the participants to share their experiences in a natural dialogue. Findings: The experience of using metaphor in therapy appears to involve a multi-faceted web of generation, construction and development between the therapist and client. Various levels of depth of metaphor in therapy were identified along with links to transferential and cultural issues. Metaphors of hope also appear to be potentially important. Discussion: The findings suggest that the use of metaphors in therapy is pervasive. Metaphors that reflect an empathic connection and encounter between therapist and client were identified. Dualistic thinking around the origination of metaphors in therapy is challenged and the concept of co-creation and the mutual development of moving metaphors is discussed. Environmental and cultural influences are considered alongside transferential aspects. Conclusion: It appears that the use of metaphor in therapy is pervasive and offers an opportunity for therapeutic change. The consideration of the construction of metaphors and their mutual development may be useful for therapists to consider. This research highlights the need for more investigation with regard to client perspectives, the environmental impacts on metaphors in therapy and who the therapist and client stand for metaphorically for each other.

This study presents empirical research to contribute to the ongoing debate between Writing Center (WC) scholars concerning theoretical conceptions and perceptions of tutor and tutee roles and identities as peers, novices, and/or experts. The study explores how symmetrical (peer) and asymmetrical (expertnovice) identities are locally co-constructed and reconstructed in turn-by-turn utterances between WC tutors and tutees. Audio-recorded data of 30-minute WC conferences were collected and micro-analyzed within the parameters of Conversation Analysis. The data reveal that, contrary to the label of peer tutoring, tutors and tutees more frequently reinforced their macro-level statuses as experts and novices, respectively. For tutors, expert identities were co-constructed by using tag questions, controlling turn and topic allocations, less frequently ratifying tutee’s contributions, and by rejecting the tutee’s contributions—either what the tutee wrote or said—more frequently; at the same time, tutees co-constructed their own noviceness by more frequently ratifying the tutor’s contributions, more frequently boosting ratification, less frequently rejecting the tutor’s contributions, less frequently controlling turn and topic allocations, and by not asking tag questions. Where the macro-level expert-novice dichotomy was more easily reinforced micro-interactionally, achieving peer identities involved cooperative coconstruction by the tutor and the tutee. The data suggest that peer identities required the following conditions to exist: (1) tutors who wished to distributeagency to their tutees in order to co-construct a more symmetrical—or peer— relationship had to less frequently employ interactional strategies that index their own expertise; (2) tutees had to accept the agency that tutors distributed to them, which contributes to tutee empowerment; (3) tutees had to use interactional strategies that typically indexed expertise for tutors—such as turn and topic control and use of tag questions—and decrease the frequency of interactional strategies that index their own noviceness, such as frequent ratification and boosting; (4) tutors and tutees had to share evenly balanced frequencies of the interactional strategies that index both expertise and noviceness; (5) tutors and tutees continued to re-establish conditions 1-4 throughout the conference to maintain a symmetrical power relationship. Shifting the agency from the more powerful tutor to the less powerful tutee accomplishes two things: tutee empowerment and establishing a more symmetrical power relationship between the tutor and the tutee. This study contributes to the small, but growing branch of research that seeks to better understand how scholars’ theoretical perceptions of tutor and tutee identities as experts or peers compare to the in-the-moment representations of tutors and tutees that empirical research reveals.