Cette recherche impliquée et impliquante nous a permis d’aborder « Les conceptions de l’animation socioculturelle dans les formations à l’animation de niveau III, Bac +2, à travers des formations proposées par des universités et des organismes de formation ». C’est à travers les différents contextes de formation, les valeurs défendues dans le métier d’animateur et de coordinateur, ainsi que les rapports théories et pratiques, que nous avons pu analyser le point de vue des étudiants et stagiaires avant la formation, et après la formation suivie.Nous avons pu comparer les décalages existants entre les curriculums formels, réels et cachés de ces formations, mais aussi établir des nuances dans les conceptions de l’animation socioculturelle à travers le macrosociologique et le microsociologique. / This implied research and impliquante allowed us to approach «The conceptions of the sociocultural animation in the trainings in the level animation III, Bac + 2, through trainings proposed by universities and bodies of training”.It is through the various contexts of training, the values defended in the profession by presenter and by coordinator, as well as reports theories and practices, that we were able to analyze the point of view of the students and the trainees before the training, and after the followed training.We were able to compare the existing gaps between curricula formal, real and hidden from these trainings, but also to establish nuances in the conceptions of the sociocultural animation through the macrosociological and the microsociological..

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The aim of this study was to investigate why musical instruments are not used more freely and frequently during activities as recess or at the after-school centres. A survey was executed among primary school staff in Piteå municipality, Sweden. The survey addressed past experience of musical activities, interest in music as well as individual extent of musical education. Participants were further asked to give a recollection of the accessibility of musical instruments in their workplace and eventually to reflect upon how satisfied they were with current accessibilities and work procedures considering the use of musical instruments. The outcome of the survey shows that there is a high accessibility of musical instruments in the primary school organization of Piteå municipality and that elementary teachers, as well as after-school centre teachers, often have formal musical education in their professional training. Despite these seemingly good conditions regarding musical practice, music is still treated differently from other topics and school activities. This could indicate that there are other elements, apart from actual musical competence, that are the source of these misconceptions and insecurities concerning musical instruments. One such element could be the individual experience of musical training and views on musical competence mediated within former teacher-student relations. Other elements include discourse and social structures within the teaching community, connected to views in larger society on culture and musicality, that could be the real cause of musical instruments not being used outside of musical classes. This study raises the question of what is to be prioritized in the school system. Should music teachers still be the only ones “allowed” to play instruments? Or should school staff put aside their own opinions and insecurities so that children may have a rich learning experience in music which further promotes development and progress? / Denna studie började med observationen att musikinstrument, även om de finns tillgängliga i skolans lokaler, inte används i någon större utsträckning utanför de lektioner som hålls av musiklärare. Syftet med den här studien är att förstå varför musikinstrument inte används mer ofta, och mer fritt, inom de verksamheter inom skolan som skulle kunna ha utrymme för det, såsom under rasterna eller fritidshemmens aktiviteter. En enkätundersökning har genomförts med lågstadielärare, musiklärare och fritidspedagoger i Piteå kommun. Deltagarna fick svara på frågor om deras tidigare erfarenheter av musikaliska aktiviteter, deras intresse för musik samt omfattningen av individuell musikalisk utbildning. De blev vidare ombedda att uppskatta tillgången till musikinstrument på deras arbetsplats och fick slutligen reflektera över hur nöjda de var med verksamhetens förutsättningar för musicerande och musikskapande aktiviteter. Utfallet av enkätundersökningen visar att det finns en hög tillgänglighet av musikinstrument i grundskolans lokaler inom Piteå kommun samt att lärare och fritidspedagoger ofta har tagit del av viss akademisk musikutbildning i sin pedagogiska utbildning. Trots dessa goda förutsättningar för musikaliska aktiviteter och musikskapande är musik fortfarande, som ämne och aktivitet sett, annorlunda betraktat jämfört med andra ämnen och aktiviteter inom skolans verksamhet. Musikinstrument, vilka skulle kunna ses som viktiga verktyg för lärande, ses istället som exklusiv utrustning som bara får användas av den som redan behärskar musik som konstform - såsom musiklärare eller kulturskolelärare. Studien väcker frågan om vad som ska prioriteras i verksamheten. Ska musiklärare fortsätta vara de enda som “får” använda och spela på musikinstrument? Eller är det dags att lärare och fritidspedagoger lägger diskursen och osäkerheten åsido så att barnen kan få tillgång till en rikedom av erfarenheter av musik som vidare främjar lärande och utveckling?

Historically, disabled people have not been viewed as innovators of humor because disability is associated with tragedy. My dissertation challenged the association of disability with tragedy by positioning disabled comedians as educators and ambassadors of disability rights. I reviewed the literature on disability and humor as well as disability oppression, which disability humor challenges. I used phenomenology as well as culturally responsive methodologies to examine what disabled comedians are achieving with their humor and what nondisabled audience members learned from attending their performances. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory of learning was used to examine learning outcomes for audience members. I examined historical and contemporary Black humor, which is much older than disability humor in order to investigate what may be the future of disability humor.

Immunization has been recognized globally as a cost-effective public health intervention. However, despite its benefits, children in northern Nigeria are still adversely affected by the negative consequences of inadequate uptake of immunization. The purpose of this study was to assess antenatal care and maternal sociocultural determinants that influence childhood immunization within 2 months of birth in northern Nigeria. Constructs of social cognitive theory were applied to this retrospective correlational cross-sectional inquiry involving women 15-49 years old in northern Nigeria. Secondary data (the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey) were analyzed using univariate, bivariate and multivariate logistic regression. Statistically significant (p < 0.05) predictors of uptake of childhood immunization within 2 months of birth were the person who delivered antenatal care, the number of antenatal care visits, the number of tetanus injections, maternal educational level, religion, wealth index, husband/partner educational level, and the person who decides on health care. Educated Christian women from middle-class or rich homes, whose husbands/partners were also educated and who jointly decided on health care, made numerous contacts with health care professionals, and received at least one tetanus injection during antenatal care, had a higher likelihood of immunizing their children within 2 months of birth. The positive social change implications for this study include providing evidence of deterrents to childhood immunization that could lead to relevant policies and interventions leading to healthier children, communities, and society.

While much has been written about the efficacy of academic support programs for increasing the retention rates of university students deemed academically underprepared, few studies examine how students engage the support classroom with an emphasis on expressions of literacy. This qualitative study responds to recent calls in student development literature for more studies into particular practices of university support programs. Focused on an exemplar support program at a larger, public university in the American Midwest, the study gathered perspectives about the support of academically underprepared students, teasing out the differences in administrators', instructors', and students' voices. Insights from the perspectives revealed that explicit metaphors of support in the programmatic discourse emphasized a skills model for academic development and a utopian model of student safe houses. In the classroom, however, five focal students suggested that literacy learning was far more complex. In particular, students' data revealed the generative potential of sociocultural literacy theory for conceptualizing praxis in an academic support program. Examining how five focal students responded to the complex programmatic perspectives of support showed that student engagement was far more intricate than strong retention rates. First, a close analysis of five focal students revealed that learning academic discourses was more than appropriation of skills; it was ways of discerning which practices to use for different communities and learning to signal one's role in these communities. Second, students revealed that student community in the support program was a borderland of difference rather than a safe house. Finally, students illustrated that opportunities for creative improvisation in literacy performances was integral to student engagement. The findings have insights for how to conceptualize pedagogy in support programs related to emergent sociocultural theories of Third Space. Specifically, imagining the support classroom as borderland play suggests that the how of student engagement was often how the five focal students proactively co-constructed the learning.

Although the research on expectancy theory and body image and eating disturbance is very limited, it appears to be an extremely useful and promising line of study. It appears likely that the application of expectancy theory would lend itself well to the area of body image disturbance and eating disorders. Within the field of body image disturbance and eating disorders research, expectancies would most likely refer to the anticipated consequences of being thin. Such expectancies may be established by an individual's direct experience with weight loss and dieting or through the observation of the messages concerning the societal "thin ideal" projected by the media, parents, and peers. The current study attempted to develop and validate a measure of women's expectancies, or anticipated consequences of being thin. The Thinness Expectancy Questionnaire (TEQ) was developed in a series of three studies: Item Generation, Item Analysis, and Validity and Reliability Analysis. First, a pilot study was conducted in order to generate a broad range of items regarding expectancies about being thin. Second, the initial measure was administered to 355 undergraduate females. A factor analysis and item analysis produced a final version of the TEQ. Last, reliability and validity analyses were conducted. Overall, results indicate that positive thinness expectancies are related to body image and eating problems whereas negative expectancies appear to have a limited connection with or are unrelated to body image/eating disorders. Although hypothesized models indicated poor to mediocre fits of the data, they represent an initial attempt at examining the role of thinness expectancies in the development of body image concerns and eating disturbance. The results indicate that positive expectancies of thinness are related to women's body dissatisfaction and eating disturbance. In other words, women's positive expectations and assumptions about being thin may put them at risk for developing difficulties with body image and eating concerns. As a result, preventative interventions that incorporate techniques that challenge or modify these cognitions would seem to be most effective.

Historically disordered eating research has been gendered with models focusing on women’s pursuit of a thin ideal, as well as men’s attempts to obtain a muscular ideal. The motivations to achieve these ideals are called the drive for thinness (DT) and drive for muscularity (DM). More recently, a cultural shift has been noted in that ideal bodies are converging across sexes to a lean ideal, with the associated motivation being labeled the drive for leanness (DL). As DL is a nascent construct, little is known about its relationships with DT and DM, or if it predicts or is predicted by the same variables that are associated with DT and DM. This study aimed to expand what is known about DL in four ways: 1) ascertain the uniqueness of DL from DT and DM; 2) explore whether DL is sex neutral; 3) investigate the extent to which DL is more or less adaptive than DT and/or DM in terms of health-related outcomes; and 4) explore associations between DL and established predictors from sociocultural models of disordered eating. Analyses evidenced support for DL’s distinctiveness from DT and DM, partial support for DL’s sex neutrality, partial support discerned via relationships with health-related outcomes for DL’s adaptive nature in comparison to DT or DM, and support for DL’s relationships with sociocultural predictors being similar to that seen between these predictors with DT and DM. This study adds to the literature by broadening what is known about DL’s uniqueness, sex neutrality, adaptive nature, and sociocultural fit in relation to the other drives within a theory based framework, providing a potential basis for future DL model building and research in general.

Due to recent developments in Web 2.0 technologies, computer-mediated collaborative writing has captured the growing attention of second language researchers and instructors. The affordance of wikis for collaborative writing has been hailed, but few studies have explored the nature of wiki collaboration and interaction during small group writing using wikis. This dissertation investigated dynamic group interactions in wiki-based collaborative writing tasks in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course at a southeastern public research university in the U.S. A total of twenty-nine English as a Second Language graduate students collaboratively worked on two writing tasks within small groups in Wikispaces sites. By adopting a multiple-case study approach, I closely examined four small groups that had diverse L1 background composites and presented a comprehensive picture of students' wiki-based collaborative writing. Informed by sociocultural theory, particularly the notions of scaffolding and zone of proximal development, I explored small group interactions to derive how they negotiated writing tasks, co-constructed writing, and mutually scaffolded wiki writing processes. I also examined what factors mediated the dynamic interactions, and in what ways the interactions influenced wiki writing products and connected with students' reflections about wiki collaborative writing. The triangulated data sources included archived wiki "Discussion," "Comments," "History," and "Page" records, pre-task and post-task questionnaire surveys, post-task and follow-up interviews, students' reflection papers, instructors' assessment of students' wiki group writing, and my research logs. In terms of the data analysis, I mainly conducted qualitative procedures using constant comparative method and content analysis, supplemented with descriptive analysis. The results revealed that the four small groups demonstrated four characteristic patterns of interaction. The patterns were not static across two wiki writing tasks. Mixed patterns were found in Group 1 (Collective-- Active/withdrawn) and Group 3 (Dominant/defensive-- Collaborative). Group dynamics were also evident in Group 2 (Expert/novice) and Group 4 (Cooperating in parallel). These patterns were featured with language functions that small groups performed while negotiating writing tasks, writing change functions that they performed while constructing joint texts, and scaffolding strategies that they applied throughout collaborative writing processes. In addition, multiple factors mediated small groups' wiki interactions: motives/goals, agency and emotion, and prior experiences in such aspects of cultural background, small group work, and technology use. Moreover, the group interactions had influences on joint wiki writing products and also connected with students' reflections about wiki affordances and their learning experiences. This study bridged the gap in computer-mediated collaborative writing research, and also shed new light on the networked writing pedagogy in the EAP context.

The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the actions of online language learners from an activity theoretical perspective. It also attempted to explain how the students' learning outcomes evolved from their online learning experiences. This explanation placed an emphasis on the learners' previous experiences, defining their activity systems, the use of mediational tools, and the resolution of contradictions. Within this activity theoretical case study a background survey, four interviews, and three field observations were conducted with seven foreign language students of an online Spanish course. The students' on-screen actions were recorded and subsequently documented in a video episode log. This log, the background survey, and the interview transcripts were coded for the a priori categories established in the research questions and for emergent themes. Seven mediational tools were identified, including a widespread use of online dictionaries and translators. The students attempted to use the mediational tools to gain control over their online language learning; however, as exhibited by the students' varying levels of regulation, some students were unable to reach or maintain self-regulation while using computer-based tools. In addition, the nature of the mediational tool use appeared to be influenced by the variety of linguistic backgrounds. Three levels of contradictions were identified including: conflicting-object contradictions, inter-activity contradictions, and technology-related contradictions. The findings of this study indicated that contradictions may be invisible to the subject of the activity. Furthermore, it was noted in this research that some students may have the capacity to identify the contradiction, yet they may not have the desire or motivation required to make the necessary change to further learning and development within the activity. Thus, contradictions may not always be resolved even when they are visible.