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This paper presents the research of conditions for introducing "algebra prior to letter". In this perspective we study the potential of certain categories of generalized situations. How can they promote algebraic thinking in elementary and junior high school classes before the introduction of algebraic symbolism? In this article we show the advantage of introducing a praxeological analysis to these situations by analyzing a situation of generalization in a 6th grade class in Quebec (12-year-old students). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Higher Interdisciplinary Training Program (ProFIS) is a pilot course of higher education from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), created in 2011, which offers 120 vacancies each year for the students from public schools in Campinas recently graduated from secondary education. The students enter the Program through their scores in the Enem (National High School Examination), and after two years of ProFIS, they choose which degree they wish to pursue at Unicamp. The Institute of Language Studies (IEL) is responsible for offering ProFIS students two disciplines of Reading and Production of Academic Texts throughout the academic year. In 2017, they studied the academic genres: critical review, scientific article and oral seminar. This paper aims to discuss the students' results in these text production activities (written and oral) in order to point out successes and learning difficulties of these academic genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Louis Veuillot, well-known among the ultramontane journalistic circle, was also a recognized writer. In colleges, his texts were included into the curriculum of colleges and also in activities outside classrooms. This paper studies the integration of Veuillot's works in literary and religious education for three periods, 1840-1871,1910-1930 and 1950-1970. Whereas Veuillot was not a part of the curriculum in the nineteenth century, the beginning of the twentieth century was the golden age of Veuillot's distribution in colleges, especially during the centennial celebrations in 1913. In these years, the writer became an example for young people, yet the 1950's spelled the end of his teaching. Nevertheless, during a few decades, Louis Veuillot was part of the literary culture among college students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]