Diriger une école primaire de milieu urbain défavorisé : les perceptions des directions d’écoles à propos de leur travail

Cet article porte sur les perceptions des directions d’écoles de milieu défavorisé à propos de leur travail. Nous nous intéressons à la situation qui prévaut à Montréal, où les écoles bénéficient de mesures particulières de soutien du Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport. Nous présentons les résultats d’une recherche menée auprès de quarante-cinq directions d'écoles primaires de milieu défavorisé de Montréal. L’objectif principal était d’identifier, de décrire et de documenter les caractéristiques du travail d’une direction d’école de milieu défavorisé. Quelques constats émergent des données recueillies. Les directions considèrent leur tâche différente de celle des directions d’une école de milieu moyen ou favorisé. Ces différences portent principalement sur la lourdeur de la tâche, sur les compétences et les attitudes particulières requises, sur la nécessité d’exercer un leadership de justice sociale, sur la nécessité de développer une certaine vision de l’éducation et finalement sur l’importance du développement professionnel.

Impacts des processus judiciaires sur la santé mentale des victimes d’actes criminels violents

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Diriger une école primaire de milieu urbain défavorisé : la justice sociale au cœur du travail des directions d’école

Le concept de justice sociale ressort clairement comme étant primordial dans l’exercice du leadership des directions d’écoles, et ce, particulièrement en milieu défavorisé. Cet article examine d’abord le contexte du programme de recherche dans lequel s’inscrit l’étude dont il présente des données. Il rappelle ensuite la littérature sur le concept de justice sociale en éducation et présente les données d’une étude menée auprès de quarante-cinq directions d’écoles primaires de milieux défavorisés de l’île de Montréal. Amenées à parler de leur travail de direction, celles-ci ont clairement exprimé qu’elles trouvent nécessaire d’exercer un tel leadership, entre autres pour contrer les préjugés des intervenants de l’école à l’égard des familles et des élèves, et d’utiliser divers moyens pour le faire. L’article décrit enfin comment les directions disent exercer ce leadership.

Why us? Perceived injustice is associated with more sexual and psychological distress in couples coping with genito-pelvic pain.

Introduction Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is the most frequent cause of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder (GPPPD) and is associated with negative psychological and sexual consequences for affected women and their partners. PVD is often misdiagnosed or ignored and many couples may experience a sense of injustice, due to the loss of their ability to have a normal sexual life. Perceiving injustice has been documented to have important consequences in individuals with chronic pain. However, no quantitative research has investigated the experience of injustice in this population. Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between perceived injustice and pain, sexual satisfaction, sexual distress, and depression among women with PVD and their partners. Methods Women diagnosed with PVD (N = 50) and their partners completed questionnaires of perceived injustice, pain, sexual satisfaction, sexual distress, and depression. Main Outcome Measures (1) Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction Scale; (2) Female Sexual Distress Scale; (3) Beck Depression Inventory-II; and (4) McGill-Melzack Pain Questionnaire. Results After controlling for partners' age, women's higher level of perceived injustice was associated with their own greater sexual distress, and the same pattern was found for partners. Women's higher level of perceived injustice was associated with their own greater depression, and the same pattern was found for partners. Women's higher perceived injustice was not associated with their own lower sexual satisfaction but partners' higher perceived injustice was associated with their own lower sexual satisfaction. Perceived injustice was not associated with women's pain intensity. Conclusion Results suggest that perceiving injustice may have negative consequences for the couple's sexual and psychological outcomes. However, the effects of perceived injustice appear to be intra-individual. Targeting perceived injustice could enhance the efficacy of psychological interventions for women with PVD and their partners.

Harmful or helpful : perceived solicitous and facilitative partner responses are differentially associated with pain and sexual satisfaction in women with provoked vestibulodynia.

Introduction.  Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is a highly prevalent vulvovaginal pain condition that negatively affects women's emotional, sexual, and relationship well-being. Recent studies have investigated the role of interpersonal variables, including partner responses. Aim.  We examined whether solicitous and facilitative partner responses were differentially associated with vulvovaginal pain and sexual satisfaction in women with PVD by examining each predictor while controlling for the other. Methods.  One hundred twenty-one women (M age = 30.60, SD = 10.53) with PVD or self-reported symptoms of PVD completed the solicitous subscale of the spouse response scale of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory, and the facilitative subscale of the Spouse Response Inventory. Participants also completed measures of pain, sexual function, sexual satisfaction, trait anxiety, and avoidance of pain and sexual behaviors (referred to as “avoidance”). Main Outcome Measures.  Dependent measures were the (i) Pain Rating Index of the McGill Pain Questionnaire with reference to pain during vaginal intercourse and (ii) Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction Scale. Results.  Controlling for trait anxiety and avoidance, higher solicitous partner responses were associated with higher vulvovaginal pain intensity (β = 0.20, P = 0.03), and higher facilitative partner responses were associated with lower pain intensity (β = −0.20, P = 0.04). Controlling for sexual function, trait anxiety, and avoidance, higher facilitative partner responses were associated with higher sexual satisfaction (β = 0.15, P = 0.05). Conclusions.  Findings suggest that facilitative partner responses may aid in alleviating vulvovaginal pain and improving sexual satisfaction, whereas solicitous partner responses may contribute to greater pain.

Woman and partner-perceived partner responses predict pain and sexual satisfaction in vestibulodynia couples

Introduction.  Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is a highly prevalent vulvovaginal pain condition that results in significant sexual dysfunction, psychological distress, and reduced quality of life. Although some intra-individual psychological factors have been associated with PVD, studies to date have neglected the interpersonal context of this condition. Aim.  We examined whether partner responses to women's pain experience—from the perspective of both the woman and her partner—are associated with pain intensity, sexual function, and sexual satisfaction. Methods.  One hundred ninety-one couples (M age for women = 33.28, standard deviation [SD] = 12.07, M age for men = 35.79, SD = 12.44) in which the woman suffered from PVD completed the spouse response scale of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory, assessing perceptions of partners' responses to the pain. Women with PVD also completed measures of pain, sexual function, sexual satisfaction, depression, and dyadic adjustment. Main Outcome Measures.  Dependent measures were women's responses to: (i) a horizontal analog scale assessing the intensity of their pain during intercourse; (ii) the Female Sexual Function Index; and (iii) the Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction Scale. Results.  Controlling for depression, higher solicitous partner responses were associated with higher levels of women's vulvovaginal pain intensity. This association was significant for partner-perceived responses (β = 0.29, P < 0.001) and for woman-perceived partner responses (β = 0.16, P = 0.04). After controlling for sexual function and dyadic adjustment, woman-perceived greater solicitous partner responses (β = 0.16, P = 0.02) predicted greater sexual satisfaction. Partner-perceived responses did not predict women's sexual satisfaction. Partner responses were not associated with women's sexual function. Conclusions.  Findings support the integration of dyadic processes in the conceptualization and treatment of PVD by suggesting that partner responses to pain affect pain intensity and sexual satisfaction in affected women.

La justice comme synthèse intelligible : une analyse textuelle du livre IV de la République de Platon

Cet article propose une modeste contribution au débat portant sur le rapport entre la tripartition de l’âme et de la cité dans la République de Platon. Dans un premier temps, nous soutenons, sur la base d’une analyse textuelle du livre IV, que la tripartition de l’âme et celle de la cité ne peuvent être pensées indépendamment l’une de l’autre, dans la mesure où elles participent toutes deux d’une dialectique qui s’élève jusqu’à la forme intelligible 1 ( ε ἶ δος ) de la justice. Dans un second temps, nous tâchons, en mobilisant des réflexions de l’interprète Giovanni R. F. Ferrari, de penser effectivement la justice comme synthèse intelligible dans son rapport avec le motif psycho-politique de la République.

Historical Justice, Nationhood and African Americans

The intelligibility of historical justice is linked to matters of agency and causation. This article presents an account of historical justice limited to transgenerational collective agents which is immune to the agency and causation problems affecting traditional theories of diachronic justice. The novel theory is applied to the case of African Americans, to whom no reparations for past wrongs have been made up to now. When conceived as a transgenerational collective agent – i.e. as a nation–, the African Americans are shown to be owed reparations by the American polity. These reparations are deemed necessary to the goal of reconciliation and to the establishment of relations of mutual respect, which are construed as preconditions to effective distributive justice, here and now.

Une formulation hégélienne du problème de la non-identité dans les théories de justice intergénérationnelle

Le problème de la non-identité est une difficulté sérieuse qui ne peut pas être ignorée par les théories de justice intergénérationnelle dans la mesure où ce problème tend à remettre en cause l'idée de responsabilité envers les générations futures. C'est dans ces conditions que ce texte propose d'éprouver le problème de la non-identité en faisant ressortir les concepts qui semblent y être sous-tendus et articulés d'une façon particulière, à savoir les concepts de réalité et de possibilité. Or, il apparaît que la philosophie hégélienne arrive à point nommé pour exprimer l'articulation qui se joue entre réalité et possibilité dans le problème en question. De cette façon, Hegel apparaît comme étant un interlocuteur privilégié pour expliciter ce que recouvre le problème de la non-identité.

Supporting Parallel Legal Systems as a Means of Improving Access to Justice in Guatemala

Parallel legal systems can and do exist within a single sovereign nation, and rural Guatemala offers one example. Such parallel systems are generally viewed as failures of legal penetration which compromise the rule of law. The question addressed in this paper is whether the de facto existence of parallel systems in Guatemala benefits the indigenous population, or whether the ultimate goal of attaining access to justice requires a complete overhaul of the official legal system. Ultimately, the author concludes that while the official justice system needs a lot of work in order to expand access to justice, especially for the rural poor, the existence of a parallel legal system can be a vehicle for, rather than a hindrance to, expanding such access.

New Standards of Justice: Uncovering Motivations for Mexico’s Recent Judicial Reforms amid a Security Crisis

From the introduction: Mexico is in a state of siege. In recent years, organized crime and drug-related violence have escalated dramatically, taking innocent lives and leaving the country mired in bloodshed. The Mexican government, under the leadership of President Felipe Calderón, has responded in part by significantly extending the reach of its security operations, deploying thousands of federal police officers and military troops to combat the activities of drug cartels, and collaborating with the United States on an extensive regional security plan known as the Mérida Initiative. In the midst of the security crisis, however, the government has somewhat paradoxically adopted judicial reforms that protect human rights and civil liberties rather than erode them, specifically the presumption of innocence standard in criminal proceedings and the implementation of oral trials. Assuming that the new laws on the books will be applied in practice, these reforms represent an important commitment on the part of the government to uphold human rights and civil liberties. This is in stark contrast to the infamous judicial reforms in Colombia—the institutionalization of anonymous or “faceless” prosecutions in special courts—implemented after a surge in leftist and cartel brutality, and the murders of several prominent public and judicial officials in the 1980s.

Impact of International Norms on Criminal Justice Administration

This study is an attempt to look at the impact of international norms on the criminal justice administration in India. It has been confined to the criminal justice administration since it is here that the concept of sovereignty is affected the most. The study is intended to give a fair idea as to the position India holds in the matter of implementation of international norms in the area of criminal justice administration and the areas that require urgent attention. The study suggests that the country’s system is on the right track towards the implementation of the international norms. The position of law in India and the requirements under international norms with respect to criminal justice administration have been studied by considering the same at three stages – pre trial, trial and post trial stages. The question as to whether they comply with the international standards and the approaches of the court has been inquired into this study