Pierre Billet

Abstract: Notre recherche porte sur le rapport que les acteurs des organismes de formation pour adulte entretiennent au e-learning, en tant que dispensateurs. Alors que le marche et les attentes semblent propices, que les salaries (dans une moindre mesure les demandeurs d’emploi) se heurtent souvent a des contraintes de disponibilite, de mobilite, d’homogeneite, que les imperatifs d’effectifs minimum a atteindre pour permettre (economiquement) la formation sont parfois difficiles a atteindre, que les acquis et objectifs de chacun – comme le sens personnel donne a l’effort – sont heterogenes, que la reactivite de la reponse formation face a l’urgence du besoin est une exigence de plus en plus attendue en Formation Professionnelle Continue, secteur fortement concurrence, ses acteurs n’embrassent que trop timidement ce type de modalite.Ce phenomene de recusation apparait pourtant en contradiction avec l’histoire, la mission et l’habitude d’innovation de ces memes organismes. Pour qui ce hiatus est prejudiciable, il nous revient d’en chercher les raisons : l’objectif de cette recherche est donc d’examiner les facteurs qui interviennent dans l’adoption ou le rejet du e-learning. L’approche theorique utilisee s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une equation du changement. Cinq hypotheses, comme autant d’exigences a satisfaire, sont investies, afin de comprendre, pour les operateurs et pour les decideurs, quels obstacles expliquent cette situation. L’adhesion des apprenants n’est pas ici interrogee, meme si bien entendu, cette donnee – exogene a notre recherche – est capitale pour le succes de cette modalite.Afin de ne pas etre soumis a des organisations trop differentes, et pour se concentrer sur nos seules variables du changement, nous avons circonscrit notre recherche a une seule organisation, representee nationalement, le reseau des GRETA (education nationale)., Apres une revue de litterature detaillee, une analyse qualitative de donnees est proposee pour tester les hypotheses sous-tendant l’engagement dans le e-learning. Notre recherche porte l’espoir de contribuer au developpement de la connaissance scientifique quant aux pratiques et processus d’engagement dans la conception et l’animation d’une nouvelle modalite, en formation pour adulte.

Abstract: Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

Abstract: Death is the new sex, last great taboo in Western society and Western medicine, as Richard Smith discusses in his editorial (p 129). In the trinity of births, marriages, and deaths, only death does not have glossy magazines devoted to stylish consumption at the attendant ceremonies. On the web, of course, …

Abstract: Arthur Chickering is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Memphis State University. On leave from the Directorship of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Memphis State, he is Visiting Professor at George Mason University. Zelda Gamson is a sociologist who holds appointments at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.

Abstract: Examines the motivation for achievement as a psychological factor that shapes economic development. Refuting arguments based on race, climate, or population growth, the book instead argues for cultural customs and motivations - especially the motivation for achievement - as the major catalysts of economic growth. Considering the Protestant Reformation, the rise of capitalism, parents' influences on sons, and folklore and children's stories as shaping cultural motivations for achievement, the book hypothesizes that a high level of achievement motivation precedes economic growth. This is supported through qualitative analysis of the achievement motive, as well as of other psychological factors - including entrepreneurial behavior and characteristics, and available sources of achievement in past and present highly achieving societies. It is the achievement motive - and not merely the profit motive or the desire for material gain - that has advanced societies economically. Consequently, individuals are not merely products of their environment, as many social scientists have asserted, but also creators of the environment, as they manipulate it in various ways in the search for achievement. Finally, a plan is hypothesized to accelerate economic growth in developing countries, by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries. The conclusion is not just that motivations shape economic progress, but that current influences on future people's motivations and values will determine economic growth in the long run. Thus, it is most beneficial for a society to concentrate its resources on creating an environment conducive to entrepreneurship and a strong ideological base for achievement. (CJC)