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We present the results of a research project on arithmetic-algebraic thinking that was carried out jointly by a team in Mexico and another in Quebec. The project deals with the concepts of variable and covariation between variables in the sixth grade at the elementary level and the first, second, and third years of secondary school--namely, children from 11 to 14 years old. We target secondary students (first year or K7) in this article. Our objective relates to the development of a gradual generalization in arithmetic-algebraic thinking in a socio-cultural approach to the learning of mathematics. We experimented with investigative situations using a paper-and-pencil approach and technology. We analyze the emergence, in this context, of a visual abstraction, the production of institutional and non-institutional representations, a sensitivity to contradiction, and, finally, the concepts of variable and of covariation between variables. [For the complete proceedings, see ED629884.]

This paper outlines school-based intervention methods for students with behavior problems that have caused them to be excluded from their neighborhood school. The methods focus on developing the social competence of these youth. Four projects found to be effective in Quebec (Canada) secondary schools are described. One program provides an alternative to school suspension by creating a special class for students who have been removed from their classes for behavior problems. In the special class, which is led by a psychoeducator and resource teachers, the students complete assignments and reflect on the situation which led to their exclusion from their regular class. Students receive counseling and are gradually re-integrated into their original class. The second program focuses on social learning and involves teaching students effective problem solving strategies for dealing with classmates. The third program involves collaboration among members of the teaching team at a 75-minute weekly meeting where difficult classroom situations are presented and concrete intervention methods are discussed. The final program deals with parental involvement in developing the student's social competence. School personnel meet with the student and his or her parents to evaluate family functioning. Parents then meet in a group to learn about how they can create an environment that reinforces their child's school progress. The paper concludes with recommendations for educators working in "second chance" schools. (Contains 18 references.) (JDD)

This publication captures the thoughts, suggestions, and concerns Canadians expressed through an engagement process on behalf of the Government of Canada to animate discussion on Canada's innovation and learning challenges. The chapters provide summaries of what different groups had to say in relation to these key challenge areas and themes set out in strategy papers: research and development and commercialization; learning and immigration systems; skills; taxation and regulation; and community innovative capacity. Chapters 2-9 summarize what was said by people in Canada's regions; young Canadians; aboriginal groups; business associations, labor and economic development organizations, and sector councils; industry sectors; small and medium-sized businesses; the academic community; and provincial and territorial governments. Chapter 10 highlights the major suggested actions and recommendations brought forth or endorsed through the endorsement process in these areas: strengthening the learning process; building an inclusive and skilled work force; enhancing the innovation environment; improving research, development, and commercialization; and strengthening communities. The appendix presents a summary of the major goals, targets, and milestones laid out in Achieving Excellence and Knowledge Matters. A French language version is provided. (YLB)

Papers on language research in this volume include the following: "Temporalite en francais de France. Differences dans la conceptualisation du temps et son expression dans un texte narratif oral" ("Differences in the Conceptualization of Time and Its Expression in Oral Narratives") (Natalia Dankova); "La traduction des textes womanist: le cas de 'La couleur poupre' d' Alice Walker" ("The Translation of Womanist Texts: The Case of 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker") (Chantal Gagnon); "Traduction de la literature francais en Chine: survol historique et reflexions theoriques" ("The Translation of French Literature into Chinese: A Historical Survey and Reflections on the Theories") (Dazhi Wang); "La transmission orale de consignes. La nature de la tache a executer comme facteur d'influence de l'organisation discursive" ("The Oral Transmission of Punctuation. The Nature of the Tasks of Executing Them as a Factor of Influence from Discoursive Organization") (Annie Bergeron); "Parler du tiers absent: simple information ou commerage?" ("To Speak of the Third Person Who Is Absent: Simple Information or Gossip?") (Veronique Perron); "Syllabification unique et chute des consonnes finales en francais de Montreal" ("The Unique Syllabification and Dropping of Final Consonants in Montreal French") (Alain Theriault); "Le systeme vocalique du francais quebecois: imaginaire linguistique des locuteurs" ("The Vowel System of Quebec French: Locators that Are Linguistically Imaginative") (Anne-Marie Beaudoin-Begin); "Apport des outils informatiques a la cineradiologie" ("Contributions of Information Technology to the Radio Cinema") (Johanna-Pascale Roy); "A la recherche des enonces definitoires dans les textes specializes" ("Research on Definitive Enunciations in Specialized Texts") (Marie-Pierre Hetu); "L'esperanto: Du mythe a la realite" ("Esperanto: From Myth to Reality") (Natalia Dankova); "L'evolution de la societe vue a travers les mots et les sens nouveaux du Petit Larousse illustre: 1996-2000" ("The Evolution of the Society in Terms of Words with New Meanings in the Dictionary The Illustrated Petit Larousse: 1996-2000") (Caroline Campeau); and "Les verbes de perception en francais: une analyse des entrees de dictionnaires" ("The Verbs of Perception in French: An Analysis of Dictionary entrees") (Sophie Piron). Each paper contains references. (AA)

Papers on language research in this volume include the following: Phonetique ou phonologie: le chva dans les emprunts anglais en portugais (Phonetics or Phonology: The Schwa in English Loan Words to Portuguese) (Pascale Belanger); NewsExpert: exemple de l'application de la linguistique informatique a Internet (NewsExpert: An Example of Its Application to Linguistic Information on the Internet) (Joel Bourgeoys); Proposition d'un classement des genres litteraries: une application de la theorie de l'enonciation (A Proposition of a Classification of Literary Genres: An Application of the Theory of Enunciation) (Sophie Piron); Impact du contact des langues en milieu scolaire a l'ile Maurice (The Impact of Language Contacts in the Academic Setting on the Island of Maurice) (Karina Chavry, with the collaboration of Denise Deshaies); Ceci n'est pas une pipe (This Is Not a Pipe) (Francois Parent); Valeur lexicale et valeur grammaticale (Lexical and Grammatical Value) (Francois Parent); Vues d'aujourd'hui sur le patrimoine (Today's View on Heritage) (Natacha Auclair, Pascale Belinger, Stephanie Campeau, Genevieve Fradette, Michel Jr Laflamme, Marie-France LeBlanc, Patricia Pelletier, Jean-Francois Smith and Marie-Helene Tremblay); La presse quebecoise vue a travers le traitement automatique de ses particularites lexicales (The Press of Quebec and Its Automatic Usages of Its Particular Lexical Items) (Anne Dister); Les expressions partitives en francais et en espagnol (Partitive Expressions in French and Spanish) (Claudine Leullier); education bilingue: consequences sur le comportement linguistiquea l1adolescense (Bilingual Education: How It Effects the Linguistic Use of Adolescents) (Celine Rostiaux); Est-ce que les comparatives et les directionelles sont des series verbales? (Are Comparatives and Directives Verbal Series?) (Renee Lambert); and Langue et identite: perspectives des Inuits (Language and Identity: Perspectives from the Inuits) (Shelley Tulloch). Each paper contains references. (AA)

Papers on language research in this volume include the following: Pour une comparaison des voyelles nasals du Quebec et du Haut-Jura: observations, methodologie et outils infomatiques (A Comparison of Quebec and Haut-Jura's Nasal Vowels: Observations, Methodologies, and Instrumentation) (Vincent Arnaud and Claude Paradis); Le negociation du sens en classe de francais langue etrangere (The Negotiation of Meaning in French as a Foreign Language Classrooms) (Ioana Belu and Luc Colles); Le back-channel dans le discours procedural (Back-channeling in Procedural Discourse) (Annie Bergeron and Diane Vincent); La redaction d'un hypertexte: nouveaux parameters, nouveaux defis (The Writing of Hypertext: New Parameters, New Challenges) (Monique Cloutier); CHILDES: un logiciel d'analyse de donnees linguistique produites par des enfants en L2 (CHILDES: A Corpora and Program to Analyze Child L2 Linguistic Output) (Antonella Conte); La levee d'ambiguites mophologiques par grammaires locales: la systeme Intex (The Level of Morphological Ambiguity in Localized Grammar: The Intex System) (Anne Dister); L'adaptation phonologique des emprunts lexicaux anglais en japonais et l'influence des facteurs non phonologiques (The Phonological Adaptations of Borrowed English Lexical Items in Japanese and the Influence of Non-Phonological Factors) (Marie-Josee Goulet); Variation geographique du francais au Canada: etude et problemes d'identification de regionalismes lexicaux (Geographical Variation in the French of Canada: Studies and Problems of Regional Lexical Identification) (Caroline Laflamme, Frederick Gagne and Gilles Gosselin); Lieux de conflit linguistique: les services bilingues a Moncton (Areas of Linguistic Conflict: The Bilingual Services in Monkton) (Melanie Le Blanc); Etude des elements prosodiques influencant la perception des fins de tours de parole (The Study of the Prosodic Elements that Influence How the End of a Interlocutor1s Speech Turn Is Perceived) (Marie Josee Lepage); La Mouvement Wh- et WMF (multiple Wh-fronting) in russe (Multiple Wh-fronting in Russian) (Denis Liakin); Emprunts et alternances de code entre le makuxi, langue caribe et le portugais bresilien (Code Switching and Alternation Between Makuxi, Language of the Caribbean, and Brazilian Portuguese) (Ron MacDonell, with the collaboration of Denise Deshaies and Claude Paradis); Les founction du discours rapportte dans les soncersations de tous les jours (The Function of Discourse in Relation to Daily Conversation) (Sophie Marais and Diane Vincent); La langue dans les echanges avec les Etats-Unis: What's the Problem? (The Language of Exchange with the United States: What's the Problem?) (Julie Moisan and Conrad Ouellon); La phonetique differenciee de l'anglais langue etrangere et strategies d'apprentissage (Strategies for Teaching the Differential Phonetics of English as a Foreign Language) (Nuzha Moritz-Abubakr); De l'inexistence des locutions (On the non-existence of locutors) (Francois Parent); La norme phonetique du francais quebecois: les attitudes des Quebecois par rapport a leur francais (The Phonetic Norm of the French of Quebec: The Attitudes of People from Quebec in Relation to Their French) (Kristin Reinke); Le paysage linguistique a Kaedi (Mauritanie) (The Linguistic Landscape of Kaedi [Maritime]) (Abdourahmane Sakho); Aphorisme et sa porjection a la surface textuelle (Aphorism and Its Projection to Written Text) (Yahor Tsedryk); Une exploration du lien entre la langue, la culture et l'identite (An Exploration of the Connections Between Language, culture, and Identity) (Sheley Tulloch and Conrad Ouellon); and De la theorie linguistique a la pratique: le transfert des connaissances (On the Theory of Applied Linguistics: The Transfer of Knowledge) (Panel of CIRAL). Each paper, except for the last, contains references. (AA)

This document contains 35 papers and 4 symposia/poster sessions presented at a Canadian conference on the study of adult education. The following papers are among those included: "Adult Education on the Internet: New Dawn Breaking or Sky Falling?" (Archer); "'Shapeshifting': Negotiating Identity in First Nations Adult Education" (Atleo, Atleo); "Beginning to Unravel Our Conceptions of Reflective Practice: Reflecting On A Definition of Reflective Practice" (Benjamin et al.); "A Critical History of National Adult Literacy Policy in Tanzania and Recent Canadian Project Experience" (Blunt); "The Impossible Issue of Professionalization for Adult Educators in Quebec" (Bouchard); "Identities and The Changing Community College Landscape" (Brewer); "The Sound of Clashing Cultures: Coordinating External Training In An Academic Department" (Church, Foth); "Lost in Space: Reinventing Ourselves as Learners on The New Frontier" (Conrad); "Spiritual Possibilities of Informal Learning" (English); "Experiential Learning Revisited" (Brillinger); "Good Work! Redefining Academic Values From a Critical Feminist Perspective" (Gouthro); "Canadian and US Academic Adult Education (1917-1970)" (Grace); "Experiential Learning: Who Benefits Who Loses?" (Grosjean); "Social Movements and Professional Cadre: The Formation Of An Aboriginal Teacher Education Program" (Hesch); "'But I'm Not A Therapist': The Challenge of Creating Effective Literarcy Learning For Survivors of Trauma" (Horsman); "Knowledge Construction In The Virtual Classroom" (Kanuka, Kreber); "Response-ability For Writing Research That Honors Practitioners' Ways of Knowing" (Lander); "Can We Design Culturally Sensitive Interactive Distance Education? Maybe" (Lauzon); "Reducing Communicative Distortion in the Cyber-Learning Paradigm" (Petlock); "Mapping the Fault Line: The Rise of Professionalization and the Fall of Social Policy in North American Adult Education" (Quigley); "A Framework for a Cultural Materialist Approach to Adult Learning" (Sawchuk); "Public and Private Relationships for Adult Educators" (Scott); "From Learning to Credential: PLAR (Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition)" (Spencer et al.); "It Takes Two to Tango: Defining the Century as a Discourse Between Learning and Education" (Thomas); "A New Initiative for Continuing Professional Development" (Wright, Einsiedel, Jr.). Most papers contain author abstracts in both English and French. (AJ)

Papers on language research include: "L'expression de l'opposition en Latin" ("The Expression of Opposition in Latin" (Claude Begin); "Le francais de l'Abitibi: characteristiques phonetiques et origine socio-geographique des locuteurs" ("The French of Abitibi: Phonetic Characteristics and Socio-Geographic Origin of Speakers") (Chantal Boissonneault); "L'Inversion du sujet dans les phrases affirmatives a verbe simple en anglais moderne" ("Subject Inversion in Simple-Verb Affirmative Sentences in Modern English") (Andre Bourcier, Patrick Duffley); "Le Comportement particulier de /h/ dans les emprunts" ("The Behavior of /h/ in Loan Words") (Frederick Brault); "Anxiete et croyances langagieres chez des apprenants d'une langue seconde au niveau universitaire" ("Anxiety and Beliefs of Second Language Learners at the University Level") (Diane Coulombe); "Probleme de l'agent de l'infinitif et du gerondif en anglais apres 'propose, mean et intend'" ("The Problem of the Agent of the Infinitive and Gerund in English After 'Propose, Mean and Intend'") (Jean-Francois Joubert); "Adaptations phonologiques et influence de la graphie dans les emprunts lexicaux francais en anglais canadien" ("Phonological Adaptations and Influence of Writing in French Loan Words in Canadian English") (Annie-Karine Lamoureux); "Enseignement, apprentissage et semantique conceptuelle: le cas de l'accord du participe passe en francais ecrit" ("Teaching, Learning, and Conceptual Semantics: The Case of Agreement in the Past Participle in Written French") (Pierre Larrivee); "Les Themes discursifs ont-ils un sexe?" ("Do Discourse Themes Have a Sex?") (Sophie Marais); "Les consequences linguistiques de l'ALENA et de la 'Charte de la language francaise' sur le milieu quebecoise des affaires" ("Linguistic Consequences of Alena and the 'Chart of the French Language' on the Quebec Business Community") (Julie Moisan); "Variation particuliere de l'adverbe 'tout'" (Variation of the Adverb 'Tout'") (Francois Parent); "Usage et visage des langues en Afrique" ("Use and Appearance of Languages in Africa") (Abdourahmane Sakho); "Les Reseaux semantiques et l'automatisation linguistique" ("Semantic Networks and Computational Linguistics") (Arman Tajarobi); and "L'allongement penultieme des voyelles /i y u/ en francais quebecois" ("Penultimate Lengthening of the Vowels /i y u/ in Quebec French") (Benoit Tardif). Each paper contains references. (MSE)

Thirty-five papers, all but one in French, presented at the conference on research in linguistics are presented here. Topics include: verb tenses in English; computerized text analysis program; study of specialized terminology; court translation in Canada; subject-verb agreement in English; bilingual editing; swearing with religious words; language of news reporting; French-Brazilian Portuguese word borrowing; bilingual education; use of the term "OK" in Montreal French; attributive function of transitive verbs; language planning in Africa; terminology in translation; descriptive vs. prescriptive linguistics (in English); recording laughter and closure in a sociolinguistic interview; clitics; vowels in Quebec French; analyzing oral spontaneous discourse; French verb value; code-switching in Ontario; Acadian child and adolescent language; the cluster condition in Spanish; nasal vowels in Kinyarwanda; variability as a functional element in communication; the vocabulary of computer-assisted instruction; language rhythm in Quebec French; practical problems in linguistic research methodology; North American English borrowing from Canadian French. Most papers contain references. (MSE)

Among 8 French and 54 English papers in this report are the following: "Marks on Paper" (Andruske); "A Multifaceted Approach to Program Evaluation" (Barabash-Pope et al.); "Marine Incidents and their Prevention through Education" (Boshier); "Exploring Needs of Adult Students in Postsecondary Institutions" (Bradley, Cleveland-Innes); "Emancipation through Acquisition of Basic Skills" (Briton et al.); "RoboEd: Re-Imaging Adult Education (AE)" (Briton, Plumb); "On Working without a Net" (Brookfield); "Study in Change" (Butschler); "Collaborative Planning as Community Learning and Empowerment" (Carriere); "Dutch Andragogy Goes to the Art Museum" (Van Gent); "Education for Social Transformation" (Dykstra); "Stress in the Farm Family" (Gordon, Pain); "Peace, Political Alternatives, and Social Action" (Dyson et al.); "Dreaming Reality" (Harris); "Demographics of Adult Learners in Urban Night School Centers" (Harwood et al.); "Entrepreneurial Ways of Learning for Success" (Hian); "Starting with Evaluation" (Holmes et al.); "Meaning and Social Integration among Adult Distance Education Students" (Hotchkis); "Toward Relevant AE with First Nations People" (Inkster, Sanderson); "Nurse Education and Women's Health Movements" (Jefferson-Lenskyj); "Workplace Learning" (Kops); "Adult Learners in Legal Education" (MacFarlane); "A Comparative Study of Continuing Competence among Male Members of Selected Professions" (Matthias); "State Sponsored Adult Literacy Programs in Malta" (Mayo); "Development of Urban Agriculture through Unethical Agricultural Extension Services" (Mlozi);"Developing a Conceptual Framework to Analyze Application of Learning from Continuing Professional Education" (Ottoson); "Towards Liberatory AE" (Ritchie et al.); "Transformative Learning in Context of Social Action" (Scott); "Early AE Associations in Canada" (Selman); "Reframing Program Planners' Practice" (Sloane-Seale); "Criteria for Resource Allocation in AE" (Sork); "Beyond Workplace Learning" (Spencer et al.); "Issues in Adult Literacy" (Taylor); "AE and the Law" (Thomas et al.); "Exploring the Boundaries of AE" (Thomson); "Giving through Grandparenting" (Whiteley); "AE in the Marketplace" (Keddie); "Literacy and Return-to-Learning Programs for Women" (Lesirge, Mace); and "Privatisation of Public Service" (Miller). (YLB)

Among 17 French and 63 English papers are the following: "Case Study of the Convergence Model in Program Evaluation" (Alexander); "Nowlen's Approach to Continuing Professional Education" (Blanchard); "Challenge for Indigenous Approaches to Adult Education (AE) and Development" (Bonson); "Cultural and Social Transformation in the 1990s" (Dyson et al.); "Graduate Students" (Chapman); "Potential and Pretensions of Critical Discoursing in Mainstream AE" (Collins); "Needs Assessment Survey" (Constantin); "University Extension" (Cruikshank); "AE and Working Life in Canada and Sweden" (Dawson); "Defining the Field of Community Development in Toronto" (Das Gupta, Fallis); "International Perspectives on Adult Literacy Education" (Draper et al.); "Understanding Program Success" (Dunlop et al.); "Cultural Politics and Mass Media" (Dyson); "Warp of One" (Gray); "Ontario Folk School Movement and Rural AE" (Gillies); "Learning as Relating" (Ingham); "AE in Study Groups of United Farmers of Alberta" (Jaques); "Popular Movements and AE" (Kastner); "Model of Coaching/Mentoring at the Workplace" (Kuban); "Effects of Cognitive Style and Type of Classroom Environment on Academic Achievement" (Leclair); "Workplace Literacy Models" (Lewe); "Linguistic Dimension in Critical Education" (Little); "Assessing for Retraining/Education" (Lohnes, Sinn); "Women's On-the-Job Procedural Knowing" (MacKeracher et al.); "Quality of AE" (Mahaffey, Turner); "Collaborative-Cooperative Learning" (Roy-Poirier); "Process/Conferencing Writing and Computers for Adult Basic Education Students" (Scane);"Micro-Teaching" (Schur); "'New Social Movements' and Citizenship Education in Canada" (Selman); "Enlightenment, Maturity, and the Role of AE" (Selman); "Missing Discourses from AE" (Sharpe); "Governance Issues in Regulation of Private Postsecondary Education Institutions" (Slade); "Theoretical Framework for Resource Allocation in AE" (Sork); "Private Vocational Training Schools in Canada" (Sweet); "AE in an Aging Society" (Thornton et al.); and "Participatory Research" (Titterington). An addendum contains abstracts of papers delivered at the conference. (YLB)

Papers from the conference include the following: opening remarks (Lorne Laforge and William F. Mackey); a position paper on the written language of the world (Grant D. McConnell); "An Overview of the Practical and Theoretical Implications of the 'Written Languages of India' Survey Regarding Language and National Development Strategies" (Grant D. McConnell); "Parameters of Language Inequality" (B. P. Mahapatra); "Standardization of Languages--The Case of India" (S. S. Bhattacharya); "Official and Minority Languages in Canada and India: Their Status, Functions and Prestige" (William F. Mackey); "The Concept of Working Language" (Jean-Denis Gendron); "Language Teaching and Language Planning" (Lorne Laforge); "Remarks on Survey Goals and Data Authenticity Validity" (R. C. Nigam);"The Hindi Language in Hindi and Non-Hindi Regions of India" (S. P. Srivastava); "Literacy Trend vs. Literary Development Among Some Scheduled Tribes" (T. P. Mukherjee); and "Selected Tribes and Their Mother Tongues" (O. P. Sharma). (MSE)

These proceedings contain 28 papers (20 in English and 8 in French), including the following: "Beyond Ideology: The Case of the Corporate Classroom" (Zinman); "De quelques dimensions paradoxales de l'education interculturelle" (Ollivier); "Ideology, Indoctrination and the Language of Physics" (Winchester); "L'education des adultes comme rite nocturne" (Ranger); "The Ideology of Autonomous Learning" (Candy); "Locus of Control and Completion in an Adult Retraining Program" (Taylor); "Computer Assisted Learning in Distance Education: The Coming of a New Generation of Distance Delivery" (Garrison); "The Relationship between Readiness to Self-directed Learning and Field Dependence among Adult Students: Preliminary Findings and Tentative Conclusions" (Tzuk); "Characteristiques des memoires des theses effectuees au departement d'Andragogie de l'Universite de Montreal 1970-1983" (Duquette); "Comparing College and School Board Part-Time Continuing Educational Instructors" (Draper); "Evaluation Study of an Expanded Distance Education System" (Einsiedel, Taylor); "Le resume comme strategie de comprehension et d'apprentissage" (Deschenes); "Hermeneutique et recit de formation" (Chene); "The Search for Meaning: Phenomenological Implications for the Study of Adult Education" (Barer-Stein); "Learning Occasions--Principia Mathetica V" (Thomas); "Toward a Philosophical Framework for Conceptualizing Adult Education" (Sinnett); "Retirement: An Exploratory Research Study" (Voege); "The Self-directed Learning Process: Major Recurrent Tasks to Deal with" (Danis, Tremblay);"Baccalaureate Nursing Studies by Teleconference" (Du Gas); "Typical and Specific Stylistic Learning Approaches of Self-directed Learners" (Theil); "La Conception de Medias Educatifs" (Danis, Tremblay); "The Predictive Value of Assessment Variables Used for Admission to College Nursing Programs" (Sim); "An Application of Cross' Chain-of-Response Model" (Smith); "Industrial Training: Practitioners' Questions" (Gaudet); "A Model for Research Conducted in CEGEPS" (Gingras); and "From Homo Canadiannus Colonialus to Homo Canadiannus Nationalus: Adult Education and Nation Building in Late Nineteenth Century Canada" (Candy). Most of the papers have lists of references. (KC)

These proceedings contain 14 papers and notes from 2 symposia in English and 2 papers in French. Abstracts appear at the beginning of the volume. The following papers are included: "Symposium Notes: What Is the Future of Adult Education in Canada?" (Bernard, MacNeil, Selman); "John Dewey Dialogues with an Adult Educator in 1987" (Barer-Stein); "Family Awakening and Parental Learning" (Blackwell); "The Role of Corporate Education in a Changing Financial Marketplace" (Cochrane); "Self-Directed Learning and the Misappropriation of Adult Education Practice" (Collins); "Critical Assumptions in University/Industry Continuing Education" (Hein); "Housing Co-ops: Adult Education for Social Change" (Hille); "Analysis of the Concept Learned Resourcefulness: Implications for Practitioners" (Hinds); "Methodological Dilemmas in Evaluating Demonstration Projects" (Darveau-Fournier, Home); "A Clerisy for Mutual and Popular Enlightenment: The Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver, 1909" (Hunt); "Race Relations Training for School Administrators and Employees: An Adult Education Model" (Mukherjee, Cooper); "Adult Educators and Their Organizations: Specialization or Balkanization" (Selman); "Le profil actuel et future de formation et de perfectionnement des formateurs d'adultes" (Serre); "Commitment to a Movement: The History of the Ontario Association for Continuing Education 1966-1986" (Smith); "The Nature of Policy-Making in Adult Education Organizations" (Taylor); "L'etat de champ d'etude universitaire de l'education des adultes" (Touchette); "Feminist Discourse and the Research Enterprise: Implications for Adult Education Research" (Warren); and "The Cusps of University in Adult Education" (Bernard). Most of the papers contain bibliographies. (KC)

These proceedings contain 24 papers in English and 3 papers in French: "Adult Education and the Social Sciences" (Draper); "Readability as Applied to an ABE (Adult Basic Education) Assessment Instrument" (Taylor, Wahlstrom); "Quality of Worklife: Adult Education Administrators Speak Out" (McKee, Murphy); "The Problem of Journal Searching: The Case of Retrieving Adult Education Evaluation Articles" (Dobson); "Mutual Enlightenment in Edwardian Vancouver" (Hunt); "Psychosocial Representations and Adult Education" (Chene); "A Participatory Research Project against Sexism" (Chervin); "Change and Continuing Professional Education" (Rogers); "The Leadership Function of Government" (Selman); "Manifestations de meta-apprentissage en situation d'autodidaxie" (Tremblay, Danis); "Notes towards a Definition of Community in Adult Education" (Thomas); "The Origin and Major Influences of Agricultural Extension in North America" (Roy-Poirier); "Le recit de formation" (Chene); "Report on CASAE/ACEEA (Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education/L'Association Canadienne pour l'etude de l'education des adultes) History Sub-Committee Meeting"; "Opening Remarks, Symposium on Adult Education and Peace" (Thomas); "Education for Peace, and Adult Education" (Roberts); "Education as a Soporific Activity" (McQueen); "Quality Assurance in Adult and Continuing Education" (Waldron, Carley); "Adults' Prior Learning: An Overview of Various Methods of Recognition" (Sansregret); "Adult Education in Saskatchewan during the Three Phases of Settlement in the Territorial Period 1870-1905" (Mein); "A New Intensive Continuing Professional Education Experience" (Murphy); "St. Francis Xavier Department of Adult Education: Challenge and Promise" (Dobson, Gillen); abstract of "Toryism and Adult Education: A Canadian Myth Exposed" (Boshier); "Education in Canadian Federal Prisons: An Historical Analysis" (Owens); "Student Perceptions of Three Models of Self-Directed Learning in a Graduate Program of Adult Education" (Herman); "Les modes d'apprentissage et les raisons du choix de ces modes" (Blais); and "Towards Alternate Models in Continuing Professional Education Evaluation Research" (Baskett). Most of the papers contain bibliographies. (KC)

This report provides a summary of the objectives, proceedings, and major outcomes of a summit meeting of over 500 leaders from across Canada convened to validate and prioritize strategic recommendations from an innovation and learning engagement process and to discuss key challenges to realization of Canada's vision to become one of the most innovative and skilled countries in the world. Introductory material includes summit background and context and an overview of the agenda. A summary of the sessions sets out the major challenges related to the summit's five themes, which are: improving research, development, and commercialization; enhancing the innovation environment; strengthening our learning culture; building an inclusive and skilled work force; and strengthening communities. The next section highlights feedback from the five breakout sessions, including details of the three or four priority recommendations participants selected in each one. Highlights and key points are presented of presentations and discussions of working sessions that identified key challenges to innovations and learning in these four areas: mobilizing communities; immigration; life sciences, biotechnology, and health innovation; and environment and clean energy. A final section discusses the next steps for Canada's innovation and learning agenda. Appendixes include official speeches, key points from presentations and discussions, and agreed-upon priorities for action. A French language version is provided. (YLB)

This document contains the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG) held at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, May 26-30, 2000. The proceedings consist of two plenary lectures, five working groups, four topic sessions, new Ph.D. reports, and panel discussions. Papers include: (1) "Manipulating Combinatorial Structures" (Gilbert Labelle); (2) "The Theoretical Dimension of Mathematics: A Challenge for Didacticians" (Maria Bartolini Bussi); (3) "Mathematics Courses for Prospect Elementary Teachers" (Caroline La Joie and Ed Barbeau); (5) "Crafting an Algebraic Mind: Intersections from History and the Contemporary Mathematics Classroom" (Louis Charbonneau and Luis Radford); (6) "Mathematics Education et Didactique des Mathematiques: Is There a Reason for Living Separate Lives?" (Tom Kieren and Anna Sierpinska); (8) "Teachers, Technologies, and Productive Pedagogy" (David A. Reid and Rosamund Sutherland); (9) "Calculus Reform: A Critical Assessment" (Sylvie Desjardins and Harald Proppe); (10) "A Proof Ought to Explain: A Classroom Teacher-Researcher, a Mathematics Educator, and Three Cohorts of Fifth Graders Seek to Make Meaning of a Non-Obvious Algebraic Equation" (Vicki Zack and David A. Reid); (11) "Assessment for All" (Leigh N. Wood and Geoffrey H. Smith); (12) "Mathematics--By Invitation" (Ralph T. Mason); (13) "Math Central: An Internet Service for Teachers and Students" (Mhairi (Vi) Maeers and Harley Weston); (14) "Mathematical Conversations within the Practice of Mathematics" (Lynn Gordon Calvert); (15) "The Word Problem as Genre in Mathematics Education" (Susan Gerofsky); (16) "How Visual Perception Justifies Mathematical Thought" (Dennis Lomas); (17) "Folding Back and Growing Mathematical Understanding" (Lyndon Martin); (18) "La Place et les Fonctions de la Validation Chez les Futures Enseignants des Mathematiques au Secondaires" (Claudine Mary); (19) "Mathematics Knowing in Action: A Fully Embodied Interpretation" (Elaine Simmt); (20) "Pourquoi Enseigner les Mathematiques a Tous?" (Bernard R. Hodgson); (21) "Why Teach Mathematics to Everyone?" (Bernard R. Hodgson); (22) "Why Teach Mathematics to All Students?" (Sandy Dawson); (23) "Why Teach Mathematics to All Students?" (Brent Davis); and (24) "Why Teach Mathematics to Everyone?" (Nadine Bednarz). (KHR)

The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th centuries; language attitudes and politics of bilingual Cameroon; spontaneous nasalization; atmospheric verb constructions and the choice of subject; the grammar of the Smurfs; linguistics in literary translation; verbal phonology of Inor; stylistic distortion in translation; Quebec French in the language chronicles of Abbott Narcisse Desgagne; use of trademarks in common language; Quebec regionalisms and the Canadian Bilingual Dictionary; the grammatical and the logical in the study of syntax; no one, nothing, and variation; the distinction between syllabus and curriculum; representation and derivation in morphology; vocabulary out of the closet; lack of definition in expressions of quantity; adaptation and importation of English segments into Quebec French; grammar and interference in germanophone Lorraine; objective and subjective in declension; prosodic markers in Spanish; relative object constructions in child language; the 1908 story "Rectification du vocabulaire" by Henri Roullaud; phonology and lexicology of French loans to Kinyarwanda; a new model of semantics, the "Wheel of Meaning"; automatic recognition of hyponyms; accent in Quebec French; the discourse marker "disons" in Quebec oral French; measuring second language reading comprehension; and the nature of the French participle. (MSE)

Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in translation; lexical stratification in specialized language; the nature of language planning; linguistic stereotypes in Berber; semantics of terminology used for American Indians; French usage among Canadian hispanophones; court interpreting; borrowing from French in Peul; language attitudes and proficiency among Latino immigrants to Quebec; the grammar of anaphora; evolution of a Cameroon pidgin; semantic comparison of the concept of beauty in French and English; a New Brunswick study of bilingualism in young children; a study of trilingual (Portuguese/French/English) families in Montreal; a pragmatic analysis of film criticism; the Moroccan vocalic system; evolution of the comma in French grammar; the concept of morphology in the functionalist linguistics of Andre Martinet; language, society, and ethnicity in Cameroon; Italian Swiss participation in a study of French vocabulary; use of the French phrase "en tout cas"; and official recognition of current usage in Quebec French. (MSE)

Papers, all in French, presented at a conference on linguistics include: "Machine Translation: Historic Aspects" (Ghada Attieh); "Translation and Conditioning" (Stephanie Bedard); "Semantic or Pre-Semantic Structures? From Perception to Causation" (Denise Belanger); "Presentation of Poetry Sung in Maroc" (Samira Belyazid); "There Is 'la' and 'la'--A Prosodic Study of the Discourse Particle 'la' in Quebec French" (Monique Demers); "The Oral Introspective Protocol in Reading: Testing and Refinements" (Linda de Serres); "Language Planning in Morocco" (Malika Ech-Chadli); "Semantic-pragmatic Description of the Connectors 'Car- Parce Que- Puisque'" (Odette Gagnon); "What Is the Meaning of a Word?" (Rene Gingras); "Left Dislocation by Anaphor: Preliminary Results" (Christian Guilbaut);"Factory Brands in the Domain of Medicines--Linguistic Acceptability: Euphemisms" (Benoit Leblanc); "Analysis of Fluidity in the Second Language" (Frederic Masse); "Analysis of Constructions using 'Etre Pour' in Quebec French" (Linda Pepin); and "Glottalization in Quebec French" (Mostafa Shoul). (MSE)

The following papers from a conference on the dimensions of literacy in a multicultural society are included in this volume: "Literacy: Affirmation and Empowerment in a Multicultural Society" (Simms); "Literacy, Border Pedagogy, and Multiculturalism in the Aftermath of the Los Angeles Uprising" (Giroux); "Alphabetisme et Communautes Ethnoculturelles" (Wagner); "Returning to Learning" (Sinn); "Assessment of the Language Competence Required for Entry-Level Jobs" (Painchaud, Jerzak); "Literacy Task Analysis" (Lewe); "First Step: Managing Cultural Diversity in an Educational Setting" (Steyn); "Towards a Critical Multicultural Literacy Introduction" (Weil); "Journeys into Difference" (Rovinescu); "Assessment and Remediation of Cognitive Skills: Combining the Theories of Feuerstein and Freire" (Hirsch); "'I Like Me; I'm Glad to Be!'" (Hugo); "Beyond the Dichotomy of Function and Voice in Adult Literacy" (Darville); "Literacy and Schooling" (Mitiche); "Metis History and Culture" (Pasula); "Whole Language for Native Students" (Zarry); "Native Content in the English Curriculum" (Lemieux); "Native Literacy Today: The Tobique Approach" (Meekis, Bernard); "Literacy Exchange: Creating a Learning Environment" (Daigle, Spanier); "Artifacts and Alphabets: Introduction to the 'Reading the Museum' Program" (Dubinsky); "Literacy for Seniors" (Lothian); "Developing Health Promoting Messages with and for Seniors with Literacy and Language Limitations" (Petch); "Literacy for Deaf-Blind Adults" (Fleming); "Introducing a Handbook for Instructions Working with Learners Being Treated for Mental Disorders" (Davidson); "Towards the Development of Media Maturity" (Belanger); "Images of Women in Music Television: Case for Media Literacy" (Cukier); "Reading Media Science: Development of Science Literacy" (McDonagh); "Conspiracy of Silence and the Report of Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba" (Sawchuk); "Introduction to Media Literacy" (Rother, Baron); "Crossing Borders: Building Communities" (Thakur, Hamilton); "Functional Literacy in the Scientific and Technological Domain" (Silas); "Scientific Literacy for Women" (Davis, Singer); "Computers and the Foreign Language Literacy Learner" (Krasnicki); "Computers and Literacy" (Owers); "Freedom behind Bars" (Herskowitz, Leger); "Presumed to Understand: Literacy and Criminal Justice" (McDougall-Gagnon-Gingras, Gingras, MacLatchie); "Integrating Numeracy into the Literacy Curriculum" (Ciancone); "Literacy in a Multicultural Society: A New Challenge for Adult Education" (Fear et al.); and "After Illiteracy, Then What" (Fagan). A list of recommendations is included. (MN)

Among 8 French and 36 English papers are the following: "Confronting the Self in Research" (Baskett); "Learning Processes as They Occur in Groups" (Becker, Hill); "La pensee critique a-t-elle un sexe?" (Bedard, Ouellette); "The Effect of Literacy on Income and Duration of Employment" (Blunt); "Graduate Student Groups for Popular Education" (Briton et al.); "Working Knowledge" (Butterwick et al.); "Etude des liens entre l'autodirection et le rendement academique chez des etudiant(e)s d'une universite venezuelienne" (Cesljarevic et al.); "Developing the Text Together" (Collard et al.); "New Approaches to Social Activism" (Dyson et al.) "The Impact of a Collaborative Workshop Based on Feminist Pedagogy" (Elias et al.); "When Institutions Collaborate" (Geissinger); "Deterrents to Participation in Adult Education (AE)" (Gibson); "From the Inside Looking Out" (Gillen); "Reflections on Development" (Harris et al.); "Gender Differences in Caregiver Stress" (Hinds); "Multiple Role Women Studying AE" (Home, Lemaire); "The Museum as Popular and Mutual Enlightenment" (Hunt); "Adult Development through the Spectrum of Consciousness" (Karplak); "L'adulte au musee et ses souveniors" (Lapointe); "Integrating Computer-Based Instruction and Computer-Conferencing for Distance Delivery" (Lauzon, Moore); "Impossible de lire ce paragraphe sur le disque" (Lefebvre, Dufresne-Tasse); "Women in University" (Litner); "Conceptual Basis of Program Failure in Tanzanian Agricultural Extension" (Mlozi); "Interculturalism and Andragogy" (Ouellette); "An Exploration of Factors Affecting Student's Choice to Continue Postsecondary Studies at a Distance" (Ross); "Hospital Ethics Committees" (Rundle); "Teaching Ourselves To Read" (Schick); "Yesterday Speaks to Today" (Selman); "Understanding Social Education in Japan" (Thomas); "Apprenticing in a Thesis Support Group" (Van Daele et al.); "The Museum as Adult Educator" (Van Gent); "Death: The Adult Learner's Penumbra" (Wall); "Persistence and Participation Research" (Walsh); "The Hidden History of Women in Frontier College" and "'Mining' the Frontier College Archives" (Wigmore). (YLB)

These proceedings are the result of a recommendation of the Royal Commission on bilingualism and biculturalism in Canada that in second language education in Canada the emphasis should be on the Canadian milieu, not on the foreign language aspect of French and English. The following papers are presented here: (1) "Realite culturelle au Canada (Cultural Context in Canada)," by N. Kattan; (2) "Should Beginning Second Language Courses be Taught at University?" by G. Mills; (3) "La realite canadienne et le materiel didactique (The Canadian Context and Teaching Materials)," by C. Germain; (4) "L'enseignement des caracteristiques canadiennes de la langue francaise (Teaching Canadian Characteristics of the French Language)," by P. Calve; (5) "Adaptation du materiel didactique concu pour l'enseignement en langue maternelle a un enseignement en langue seconde (The Adaptation for Second Language Instruction of Instructional Materials Intended for Native Language Instruction)," by L. Van Toch; (6) "La realite canadienne et le professeur de langue seconde (The Canadian Context and the Second Language Teacher)," by G. Bibeau; (7) "English as a Second Language: Canadian, British and American Models of Teacher Preparation," by P. Acheson; (8) "Les echanges et les stages d'etude en milieu unilingue (Exchanges and Study Sessions in a Monolingual Setting)," by A. Dagenais; and (9) La realite canadienne et perspectives d'avenir dans l'enseignement des langues secondes (The Canadian Context and Perspectives for the Future in the Teaching of Second Languages)," by J. Brazeau. (AMH)

Student papers presented at a sociolinguistics conference include: "La variation phonologique [d'une voyelle] a Hull"; "La force illocutoire des pronoms personnels 'je' et 'tu' en tant qu'insignes des places d'ou parlent les femmes et les hommes"; "L'emploi des modes indicatif et subjonctif dans le francais parle de la ville de Quebec"; "A Study of the (-ing) Variable in the Ottawa Male Community"; "An Application of Correspondence Analysis to the Multiple Variant Problem"; "Une etude des qualificateurs, intensificateurs et phrases encloses par rapport a la differenciation linguistique selon le sexe"; "Organisation conversationnelle en situation de plurilinguisme: les choix linguistiques des italophones de Montreal"; "'Pi' interrogatif en quebecois"; "Analyse parametrique de la chute du /s/ en espagnol"; "Lexical Variation in the Speech of Four Chinese Speakers"; "Marqueurs de discours et fonction discursive des narrations"; "Variation phonetique dans l'emploi des pronoms de troisieme personne en francais quebecois"; "L'alternance entre les determinants demonstratifs ['ce et cette'] en francais parle a Montreal"; and "A la recherche des diphtongues nasales du francais parle a Quebec". (MSE)

The following are English translations of the titles of student research papers from a university conference on linguistics: "The Onomastic Syntagm in Geology: A Comparative Study of English and French"; "Hunting Ideology Through Discourse Analysis"; "Peculiarities of Canadian French (Archaisms and Pronunciation): An Analysis of Early Reports on the French of Canada"; "For an Analysis of the Cultural/Content of Authentic Written Documents--in This Instance, Articles Concerning the World of Women"; "Comparative Study of Gestures and Pedagogical Implications"; "The Evaluation of Courseware: Contribution to the Development of an Instrument Specific to the Teaching of French as a Second or Foreign Language"; "Analysis of the Learning Objectives of Four Regular Programs of French as a Second Language in Canada--Practical Application; The Example: Quebec"; "Is 'Trifluvien' a Suffixed Word?"; "Metalexicographical Study of the Quebec-isms in the Supplement to the Dictionary of Dictionaries (1895): Objectives Pursued and First Results"; "The Party, The Members: Liberal Party in Georges Emile Lapalme's 'Pour une politique'"; "The Teaching/Learning of Natural Science in French Immersion"; "Hemispheric Preference and the Processing of Information in Interpreters"; "The Usual Discourse of the Office of the French Language"; "Analysis and Comparison of French Programs in the Countries of the Maghreb: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia"; "Syntax of Scientific Discourse and Anaphoric Review of the Terminology Syntagm"; and "Immersion Programs in Newfoundland: Relays Between Effective Pedagogical Practices and 'Theoretical Principles.'" (MSE)