Le dispositif des enseignements d’exploration de la réforme du lycée de 2010 se distingue des enseignements traditionnels par la liberté octroyée dans sa conception au niveau de curriculum potentiel et parce qu’il s’apparente à une éducation à l’orientation par l’exploration de cursus et d’activités professionnelles. Un partenariat, nommé EDIFICE, conçu par l’université d’Orléans, est une forme curriculaire potentielle du dispositif d’enseignement d’exploration de Méthodes et Pratiques Scientifiques pour la classe de seconde. Dans sa tranche n°1, il regroupe des laboratoires de recherche avec des lycées d’enseignement général et technologique, et vise la participation d’élèves à des activités de recherches de doctorants au cours de moments en laboratoire. Chaque doctorant encadre deux à six élèves accompagnés par un enseignant du lycée. Le contexte éducatif des laboratoires nous conduit à définir l’action d’exploration, afin de constituer le fondement théorique relatif à ce travail. Nous questionnons ensuite la mise en œuvre du dispositif EDIFICE par rapport à une approche curriculaire associée à la notion de pratiques sociales de référence: 1) Comment les élèves explorent les pratiques sociales de référence des laboratoires ? 2) Comment ils explorent les pratiques de recherche doctorale ? 3) Comment les explorations en laboratoire sont co-produites par les trois types d’acteurs impliqués : le doctorant, les élèves et l’enseignant accompagnateur ? Notre recueil de données porte sur la totalité des 26 groupes doctorant, élèves et enseignant accompagnateur de la première année de mise en œuvre du dispositif. Nous analysons, selon la question de recherche, des réponses écrites des élèves, des entretiens réalisés avec les trois types d’acteur, des observations lors d’un congrès des élèves et dans les laboratoires visités. Des cahiers de laboratoire et les diaporamas du congrès des élèves sont également étudiés, ainsi que des articles de recherche, des supports de présentations et des thèses des doctorants. Tout d’abord, nous constatons que les élèves élaborent des représentations nombreuses sur les sciences et la pratique sociale des chercheurs, puisqu’ils se rendent compte de l’importance des écrits, des flux d’informations en réseau et entrevoient maintenant le laboratoire comme un espace de collaboration. La rencontre avec la résistance du réel et la phénoménotechnique contribuent à décloisonner les sciences, les technologies et la société. Les sciences en action sont considérées, pour certains, comme imaginées et inventées et cette expérience permet globalement un élargissement des possibilités d’orientation. Ensuite, nous inférons quatre modes distincts d’exploration de la recherche doctorale. Un mode se focalise sur l’acquisition de concepts généraux de la thèse, un autre transpose de manière synthétique une démarche de la recherche doctorale. Un troisième mode correspond à une démarche personnelle de problématisation. Dans le mode ethnographique, la recherche est explorée à un instant donné, sans adaptation. Les explorations des élèves apparaissent tributaires de l’épistémologie de la discipline de recherche. Enfin, les enseignants accompagnateurs et les élèves exercent une influence majeure sur la nature des explorations lors du processus de co-production qui conduit à des modifications sur la conception du curriculum potentiel. La possibilité pour chacun des acteurs d’explorer est discutée en lien avec l’enrichissement mutuel conféré par le cadre partenarial. / French High Schools experienced a national reform plan in 2010 incorporating exploration courses breaking with traditional teachings. This granted more freedom in their conception as potential curriculums because these courses can involve career choice and thus enable students to explore both curriculums and professional environments. A partnership, named EDIFICE, set up by the University of Orléans, France, is a potential curricular form of the course entitled “Scientific methods and practices” for 10th grade students. In the first phase of the project, a partnership between research labs and High Schools has been set up in order to involve High School students in the research activities of PhD Students in their labs. Each PhD student works with two to six students who are themselves chaperoned by a High School teacher. The educational context of the labs makes it necessary to define the exploration, in order to constitute the theoretical foundation of this work. The implementation of the EDIFICE project is then questioned and compared to a curricular approach associated to the notion of social practice of reference: 1) How do the students explore the social practices of reference in the labs? 2) How do they explore the practices of PhD research? 3) How are the explorations in labs co-produced by the PhD student, the students, and the chaperoning High School teacher? Our data covers the 26 groups of PhD students, High School students and chaperoning teachers over the first year of implementation of the project. Data analysis consisted of the written answers provided by the students, the interviews of the three types of participants, the observations’ notes made during a conference of the High School students and the labs visits. Lab notebooks and slide shows from the High School students’ conference are also studied, as well as research articles, presentation materials, and the PhD thesis from the PhD students involved in the project. First of all, it can be observed that students have numerous representations of sciences and the social practices of researchers since they have realized the importance of the written medium, of the flows of networking information and are now able to perceive the lab as a space for collaboration. The experience of the resistance of the real and phenomenotechnique contribute to remove the partitions between sciences, technologies, and society. The sciences in action are considered, by some, as imagined or invented and this experience enables, more generally speaking, to enlarge the possibilities of course and career choices for the High School students involved. Then, four distinct modes of exploration of PhD research are inferred. One mode is focused on the acquisition of general concepts of the thesis, another one transposes synthetically one approach of the PhD research. A third mode corresponds to the personal approach of the formulation of the research question. In the ethnographic mode, the research is explored at a given moment, without adaptation. The explorations of the students seem dependent on the epistemology of the researched discipline. Finally, the chaperoning teachers and the students have a major influence on the nature of the explorations during the process of co-production which leads to modifications of the conception of the potential curriculum. The possibility for each and one of the participants to explore is discussed in connection with a mutual enrichment made possible by the partnership framework of the EDIFICE project.

Nach erfolgreicher Antragstellung wurde zum 1. Juli 2010 die Kompetenzschule ELSYS (Employability and Leadership Skills for Young Saxon Researchers) an der Research Academy Leipzig eingerichtet. Die Finanzierung der Kompetenzschule erfolgte zu 100 Prozent aus Mitteln des Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF) gemäß der Richtlinie ESF Hochschule und Forschung des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst (SMWK). Hierbei sollte das Ziel einer nachhaltigen Verstetigung des Projekts an der Universität verfolgt werden. Die Mittelzuweisung und Ausgabenprüfung gemäß der Förderrichtlinie erfolgten durch die Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB). Der Bericht umfasst die Aktivitäten und Ergebnisse des ersten Förderzeitraumes vom 1. Juli 2010 bis zum 30. Juni 2013. Es wird dargestellt, wie die Lern- und Weiterbildungsinhalte und -strategien der Kompetenzschule dazu beigetragen haben, ein umfangreiches Angebot für den Erwerb von (überfachlichen) Handlungskompetenzen für Promovierende und Postdocs nachhaltig zu entwickeln. Ergebnisse und Alleinstellungsmerkmale werden anhand des Konzepts und der Struktur der Kompetenzschule ELSYS herausgearbeitet und bewertet. Ein Konzept für den Förderzeitraum bis 2014 und darüber hinausreichende Entwicklungsstrategien werden skizziert.

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The Water Doctoral Network of Engineering and Management is a bilateral German – Vietnamese academic network with the aim to provide a platform for the development of joint research activities in water sector. Within the framework of the project, the network members organised a series of workshops and seminars targeted especially at PhD students from universities conducting research programs in water-related issues from both countries. The present paper summarises the outcomes of the last PhD seminar held on March 21-22, 2013 in Dresden, Germany. The seminar was attended by participants from IEEM – Institute of Environmental Engineering and Manage-ment at the University of Witten/Herdecke gGmbH and IAA – Institute of Waste Management and Contaminated Site Treatment at the Technische Universität Dresden. / Mạng lưới nghiên cứu sinh ngành Kỹ thuật và quản lý về nước là một mạng lưới hàn lâm song phương Đức-Việt, nhằm tạo ra một diễn đàn đẩy mạnh hoạt động nghiên cứu hợp tác trong ngành nước. Trong khuôn khổ dự án này, các thành viên thuộc mạng lưới đã cùng nhau tổ chức một loạt những hội thảo và semina chủ yếu phục vụ cho các nghiên cứu sinh của các trường đại học đang tham gia cá chương trình nghiên cứu về những đề tài liên quan đến nước ở cả Việt Nam và Đức. Bài báo quý vị đang đọc đưa ra tóm tắt ngắn gọn những kết quả đạt được trong semina vừa tổ chức ngày 21.-22.03.2013 tại Dresden, Đức. Semina này hướng tới các đối tượng thuộc Viện Kỹ thuật và Quản lý môi trường (IEEM) thuộc trường Đại học Witten/Herdecke gGmbH và Viện Quản lý chất thải-Xử lý vùng ô nhiễm (IAA) thuộc Đại học Tổng hợp Kỹ thuật Dresden.

Plants are continuously exposed to different abiotic and biotic stresses in their natural environment. Their capacity to survive depends on the capacity to perceive external signal and quality amount a defence response for protection from the stress perceived. The purpose of this project was to study the impact of combined abiotic stress and biotic stress on the outcome of the disease inducing Arabidopsis thaliana – Pseudomonas syringae interaction. This study included a focus on the role of ABA in these interactions and also whether 3´-O-β D- ribofuranosyl adenosine (hereafter it called ‘400’ compound), a novel adenosine derived compound induced during compatible interactions, was involved. The later involved the targetted disruption of a putative 400 biosynthetic pathway involving analysis of knockout mutants of enzymes; APD-ribose diphosphatase NAD binding / hydrolases of the NUDIX class, glucosyl transferases, ribosyltransferases, a ribose-phosphate pyrophosphokinase3 and galactosyltransferases. Unfortunately, none of these targeted interventions modified the host response to Pseudomonas infection, nor altered levels of 400 in challenged leaves. The primary research investigated the interaction between abiotic and biotic stresses in Arabidopsis plants focussing on the modulation of plant defence against multiple, and possibly antagonistic, stress responses and the role plant hormones play in this process. We showed that high light caused enhanced susceptibility to the already virulent Pseudomonas syringae DC3000pvsp61. The pathways contributing to this enhanced susceptibility were largely ABA independent. Subsequent characterization of transgenic lines expressing the soluble Arabidopsis abscisic acid receptors, PYRABACTIN RESISTANCE1-LIKE4-6 provided compelling evidence for a role for these receptors in DC3000 virulence strategies, but they contribute to a lesser extent to the enhanced susceptibility under high light. This was corroborated genetically by using mutants of the immediately downstream targets of PYLs, the type two protein phosphatase, specifically the triple mutant hab1-1/abi2-1/abi1-2. A number of epitope and fluorescent constructs were generated to facilitate future studies of the role of ABA signaling. Targetted profiling suggested that SA dynamics were altered under DC3000 challenged Arabidopsis grown under high light. Furthermore, differential accumulation of flavonoids suggested these may also play a role in attenuating host defences under high light. Finally we provide evidence based on comparative analysis of that the photoreceptors phytochrome double mutant phyA-211/phyB-9 and cry1/cry2 behave antagonistically in Arabidopsis response to DC3000. Overall our studies support the conclusion that plants abiotic stress (HL) response takes precedence over biotic stress (DC3000) responses and that abiotic stress is detrimental to plant immunity. The luciferase transgenic PYL lines showed high level of expression of ClucP::PYL5 plant tissues challenged 2hpi of DC3000 (OD600: 0.15) in comparison with C1lucP::PYL6. This result opposes to what RT-PCR reported; which was that three PYLs genes display similar expression level at 6hpi of hrpA or 18hpi of DC3000. The epitope tags of CaMV::HA transgenic plants showed HA-tagged signal with stunted phenotype in a range of PYL4, 5 and 6 plants but none of the plants displayed any differences in susceptibility to DC3000. Although, RT-PCR assay showed high levels of expression in the three PYLs, 6hpi of hrpA but no signal was detected in B8eGFP::PYL5 transgenic line either followed the DC3000 and hrpA infection or by examined plant seedlings at early stages under confocal microscopy.

The present work explores my practice as a photojournalist researching anthropological issues in the Muslim world. I use the Hawzas, the Muslim Shi’a seminaries, as my case study to invite a visually informed approach to the human sciences, and promote a practical usage of aesthetics. Because of the dramatic disproportion between socio-cultural relevance and under-representation, the Hawzas offer an extremely valuable opportunity to research issues of Orientalism and Orientalist visual archives. By questioning my own fieldwork practice alongside the visual signification of the Hawzas, I reconnect the pre-production to the post-production phase, and encompass within it a shared outlook issues of both the Real and the represented. I posit the photograph within wider multimedia and multi-audience practices as a stand-alone communicative device and part of a montage to assess its communicative features in relation to the verbal as a caption, and to the visual, in montage. Through this, I distinguish a phenomenological framework of analysis to urge a radical rethinking of personal and social agencies, and suggest the notion of communicative hubs for today’s globalised identities. I evince the extent to which the digital is reshaping forms of visual-led and multimedia production, knowledge distribution and media consumption to finally contextualise the photograph as ‘semantics without ontology.’ I conclude by advocating my ideas of the ‘Meta- Image’ and ‘Public Cultures 2.0’ as two integrated formats for visual-led communication, digital media practice, social engagement and public impact as specifically addressing Muslim cultures.

Na atuação feminista, em debates com militantes e gestoras de políticas com vivência acadêmica, percebi o desenvolvimento de um raciocínio que me incomodava: a transposição de certos modos de pensar as mulheres e o gênero construídos no campo do trabalho, cidadania e políticas públicas para a educação. Dessas ponderações, desdobraram-se duas grandes questões: 1) Como a categoria gênero vem sendo utilizada nas pesquisas em educação?, 2) Que categorias vêm sendo (re)criadas nesse encontro entre os estudos de gênero e os estudos em educação? Para tanto, propus-me a estudar as teses de doutorado a respeito das relações de gênero e educação produzidas no Brasil no período 1994-2004, tendo realizado o levantamento das teses na base Capes e nos sites dos acervos e bibliotecas das universidades cadastradas na Capes com doutorado em educação. Após operar com alguns recortes, decidi estudar apenas os trabalhos que se propunham a uma revisão ou recriação de categorias explicativas do campo da educação à luz do gênero, em um total de dez teses. Retomando uma longa trajetória de reflexão da Sociologia da Educação, busquei destacar dos estudos de gênero em educação a compreensão da realidade educacional brasileira como uma realidade social específica, em suas matizes e complexidades, e não como qualquer outra realidade social. Por outro lado, estando a educação no meio de campo híbrido, tenso, conflituoso entre o público e o privado, a família e o Estado, o olhar de gênero em suas diversas dimensões pode trazer grandes contribuições para a melhor compreensão da realidade educacional, como: a própria ruptura dessas polaridades; as possibilidades colocadas pelo gênero neutro, pelas formas híbridas; a não desqualificação nem negação do que seria associado ao doméstico, ao privado, ao feminino; a assunção das tensões e conflitos. Foi nesse sentido que me propus a estudar os usos de gênero nas teses escolhidas: investigar como essa categoria vem sendo construída nos estudos em educação, deslocando-me da pergunta sobre os porquês do gênero. Isso só foi possível pois, embora talvez sejam ainda pouco considerados no campo da educação, os estudos de gênero já se constituem em um campo teórico relativamente consolidado embora marginal, guetizado -, o que ficou evidente nas teses estudadas. Por fim, pude perceber a construção de confrontos teóricos fundamentais no campo da educação, como, por exemplo, a discussão de que são diferentes o trabalho docente primário e o trabalho doméstico, o agir coletivo e o sindicalismo, o trabalho docente e o trabalho profissional ou o trabalho proletário, que o trabalho de educadoras na rede clandestina de educação infantil é legítimo - exemplos de um trabalho intelectual apurado, acurado e ousado. / During feminist activism, on debates to activists or politicians related to the university, I noticed certain thought that I disagreeded to: moving certain ways of thinking about women and gender created on the fields of work, citizenship and public politics to education. Thinking about it, two questions were developed: 1) How the category gender has been used on educational researches?, 2) Which categories have been (re)created on this encounter between gender studies and educational studies? Then I decided to study PhD thesis about gender relations and education produced in Brazil from 1994 to 2004, for what I made a research at Capes basis and at the sites from universities. After some choices among the studies that I found, I decided to study those that revised or recreated categories from educational field by using gender propositions, which were ten studies. Considering a tradition from studies of Sociology of Education, I emphasized the comprehension that our educational reality is a specific social reality, on your shades and complexities. Beyond that, as education is situated on the conflicting and hybrid field between public and private, family and the State, gender, into your multiple dimensions, can bring great contributions to a better comprehension of educational reality, such as like: breaking these oppositions; possibilities from using neuter gender and hybrid forms; not to disqualify or deny what could be considered related to domestic, private and feminine; to assume tensions and conflicts. That´s why I decided to study gender uses on those researches I chose: investigate how that category has been created on educational studies, not thinking about the reasons of using gender. That was possible just because, despite gender studies are little considered on educational field, they are consolidated - though they are a marginal field of studies -, what became evident on the researches I studied. At the end, I could notice important theoretical confrontations in the educational filed, such as discussing that teachers´ work at elementary school is different of domestic work, collective actions are different of trade unions, teachers´ work is different either of professionals or to working class, that the work of women in the underground system of educating little children is legitimate examples of an accurate intellectual work.

Na atuação feminista, em debates com militantes e gestoras de políticas com vivência acadêmica, percebi o desenvolvimento de um raciocínio que me incomodava: a transposição de certos modos de pensar as mulheres e o gênero construídos no campo do trabalho, cidadania e políticas públicas para a educação. Dessas ponderações, desdobraram-se duas grandes questões: 1) Como a categoria gênero vem sendo utilizada nas pesquisas em educação?, 2) Que categorias vêm sendo (re)criadas nesse encontro entre os estudos de gênero e os estudos em educação? Para tanto, propus-me a estudar as teses de doutorado a respeito das relações de gênero e educação produzidas no Brasil no período 1994-2004, tendo realizado o levantamento das teses na base Capes e nos sites dos acervos e bibliotecas das universidades cadastradas na Capes com doutorado em educação. Após operar com alguns recortes, decidi estudar apenas os trabalhos que se propunham a uma revisão ou recriação de categorias explicativas do campo da educação à luz do gênero, em um total de dez teses. Retomando uma longa trajetória de reflexão da Sociologia da Educação, busquei destacar dos estudos de gênero em educação a compreensão da realidade educacional brasileira como uma realidade social específica, em suas matizes e complexidades, e não como qualquer outra realidade social. Por outro lado, estando a educação no meio de campo híbrido, tenso, conflituoso entre o público e o privado, a família e o Estado, o olhar de gênero em suas diversas dimensões pode trazer grandes contribuições para a melhor compreensão da realidade educacional, como: a própria ruptura dessas polaridades; as possibilidades colocadas pelo gênero neutro, pelas formas híbridas; a não desqualificação nem negação do que seria associado ao doméstico, ao privado, ao feminino; a assunção das tensões e conflitos. Foi nesse sentido que me propus a estudar os usos de gênero nas teses escolhidas: investigar como essa categoria vem sendo construída nos estudos em educação, deslocando-me da pergunta sobre os porquês do gênero. Isso só foi possível pois, embora talvez sejam ainda pouco considerados no campo da educação, os estudos de gênero já se constituem em um campo teórico relativamente consolidado embora marginal, guetizado -, o que ficou evidente nas teses estudadas. Por fim, pude perceber a construção de confrontos teóricos fundamentais no campo da educação, como, por exemplo, a discussão de que são diferentes o trabalho docente primário e o trabalho doméstico, o agir coletivo e o sindicalismo, o trabalho docente e o trabalho profissional ou o trabalho proletário, que o trabalho de educadoras na rede clandestina de educação infantil é legítimo - exemplos de um trabalho intelectual apurado, acurado e ousado. / During feminist activism, on debates to activists or politicians related to the university, I noticed certain thought that I disagreeded to: moving certain ways of thinking about women and gender created on the fields of work, citizenship and public politics to education. Thinking about it, two questions were developed: 1) How the category gender has been used on educational researches?, 2) Which categories have been (re)created on this encounter between gender studies and educational studies? Then I decided to study PhD thesis about gender relations and education produced in Brazil from 1994 to 2004, for what I made a research at Capes basis and at the sites from universities. After some choices among the studies that I found, I decided to study those that revised or recreated categories from educational field by using gender propositions, which were ten studies. Considering a tradition from studies of Sociology of Education, I emphasized the comprehension that our educational reality is a specific social reality, on your shades and complexities. Beyond that, as education is situated on the conflicting and hybrid field between public and private, family and the State, gender, into your multiple dimensions, can bring great contributions to a better comprehension of educational reality, such as like: breaking these oppositions; possibilities from using neuter gender and hybrid forms; not to disqualify or deny what could be considered related to domestic, private and feminine; to assume tensions and conflicts. That´s why I decided to study gender uses on those researches I chose: investigate how that category has been created on educational studies, not thinking about the reasons of using gender. That was possible just because, despite gender studies are little considered on educational field, they are consolidated - though they are a marginal field of studies -, what became evident on the researches I studied. At the end, I could notice important theoretical confrontations in the educational filed, such as discussing that teachers´ work at elementary school is different of domestic work, collective actions are different of trade unions, teachers´ work is different either of professionals or to working class, that the work of women in the underground system of educating little children is legitimate examples of an accurate intellectual work.

Music Learning and Mathematics Achievement: A Real-World Study in English Primary Schools Edel Marie Sanders Abstract This study examines the potential for music education to enhance children's mathematical achievement and understanding. Psychological and neuroscientific research on the relationship between music and mathematics has grown considerably in recent years. Much of this, however, has been laboratory-based, short-term or small-scale research. The present study contributes to the literature by focusing on specific musical and mathematical elements, working principally through the medium of singing and setting the study in five primary schools over a full school year. Nearly 200 children aged seven to eight years, in six school classes, experienced structured weekly music lessons, congruent with English National Curriculum objectives for music but with specific foci. The quasi-experimental design employed two independent variable categories: musical focus (form, pitch relationships or rhythm) and mathematical teaching emphasis (implicit or explicit). In all other respects, lesson content was kept as constant as possible. Pretests and posttests in standardised behavioural measures of musical, spatial and mathematical thinking were administered to all children. Statistical analyses (two-way mixed ANOVAs) of student scores in these tests reveal positive significant gains in most comparisons over normative progress in mathematics for all musical emphases and both pedagogical conditions with slightly greater effects in the mathematically explicit lessons. This investigation addresses concerns that UK and US governments' quests for higher standards in mathematics typically result in impoverished curricula with limited access to the arts. In showing that active musical engagement over time can improve mathematical achievement, as hypothesised, this work adds to a growing body of research suggesting that policy-makers and educationalists should reconsider curriculum balance.