François Larose

Bio: François Larose is an academic researcher from Université de Sherbrooke. The author has contributed to research in topics: Teacher education & Teaching method. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 87 publications receiving 777 citations.

Past and Current Trends in the Analysis of Textbooks in a Quebec Context

Abstract: This article draws from two research programs on the use of textbooks for a variety of school subjects by elementary-school teachers in Quebec. Highlighting the main analytical orientations pertaining to textbooks both in Quebec and elsewhere, it first distinguishes between textbooks and schoolbooks, and then presents the importance and the role that textbooks, in Quebec elementary teaching, have had over the past 40 years. Lastly, the article portrays the state of research on textbooks, unveiling the need for a comprehensive, situated approach in research on textbooks, as well as work focused on how teachers use them and on the impact of this use on both practice and learning.

Les facteurs sous-jacents au transfert des compétences informatiques construites par les futurs maîtres du primaire sur le plan de l’intervention éducative

Abstract: Cet article presente les resultats de deux enquetes menees aupres d’enseignants du primaire et d’etudiants du programme de formation initiale a l’enseignement au prescolaire et au primaire de l’Universite de Sherbrooke. Les chercheurs font d’abord etat de la documentation scientifique relative a l’identification des facteurs qui favorisent ou inhibent l’integration des TIC en enseignement, tant chez les enseignants chevronnes que chez les novices. Ils examinent ensuite l’impact eventuel des effets de modelage de la formation pratique sur la reproduction des modeles actuels de recours a ces technologies. Enfin, ils s’interrogent sur la probabilite de changer les pratiques en fonction de la stabilite des modeles d’intervention educative preconises en formation initiale a l’enseignement et dans les milieux de pratique.

La stratification des matières scolaires chez les enseignants du primaire au Québec: évolution ou stabilité des représentations depuis 1981

Abstract: Cet article fait etat de l'evolution, de 1981 a 1998, des representations sociales d'enseignants quebecois du primaire relatives a la hierarchisation des matieres scolaires qui forment le curriculum de l'enseignement primaire. Les resultats, qui decoulent plus particulierement de trois recherches menees durant les annees quatre-vingt-dix, montrent l'existence d'une forte stratification des matieres scolaires ou le francais et les mathematiques occupent une position hegemonique, quel que soit l'angle d'approche considere: l'importance des matieres scolaires, la distinction entre matieres de base et matieres secondaires, le temps d'enseignement, la complementarite entre les matieres scolaires. L'existence d'une relation entre la hierarchisation des matieres et les conceptions sociales de la formation d'un eleve du primaire est alors mise en evidence.

Information and Communication Technologies in University Teaching and in Teacher Education: Journey in a Major Québec University's Reality

Abstract: The authors present a relatively extensive review of the literature on the epistemological issues that underlie the integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in university teaching. On one hand,

Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice

Abstract: Medicine has evolved from the undertaking of the individual practitioner to a state in which many disciplines become involved in administering both diagnostic and treatment services. It has become a standard of care in hospital and clinic-based practice to utilize a multidisciplinary approach to medical care. Multidisciplinary modes of practice, however, do not ensure that participants interact cooperatively, or with the exclusive purpose of patient benefit. The usual mode of interaction within medical academic and clinical environments promotes individualism, protectionism, and some degree of isolation, not infrequently to the detriment of patient care. The stated purpose of this book is to provide a synthesis of theories and methodologies that promote a growing permeability of boundaries and that allow for intellectual accommodation. Health care professionals have been turning to interdisciplinary intervention approaches for several reasons, but the most compelling in medicine is the need to solve problems that are beyond the

Social Learning and Imitation

Abstract: MOST past studies of learning have been concerned with the acquisition of intellectual or motor habits and skills. The learning process has been studied, so to speak, in a social vacuum. With the subject of imitation, text-books have usually dealt casually, explaining it in terms of current theory, nativistic, 'associationist' or, more rarely, in terms of learning. Familiar phenomena are the ones most liable to be lightly passed over, and it is perhaps just because imitation is so pervasive and universal a process that its significance has been overlooked. Social Learning and Imitation By Neal E. Miller John Dollard. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.) Pp. x + 284. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1945.) 15s. net.