Jean Loiselle

PROFESSIONAL ISOLATION AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS IN TEACHERS

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between professional isolation of teachers and their occupational stress. A systematic random sample of 1,110 teachers in Quebec were administered French Canadian versions of the UCLA Loneliness Scale and Teacher Stress Inventory. Analysis gave, as expected, a positive and significant correlation between isolation and occupational stress. This highlights the importance of looking for ways to reduce professional isolation of teachers.

Pratiques d’enseignement et conceptions de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage d’enseignants du primaire à divers niveaux du processus d’implantation des TIC

Resume : Cet article decrit les pratiques et les conceptions de huit enseignants du primaire qui se situent a divers stades du processus d’implantation des TIC. Les resultats, issus d’entretiens et d’observations, montrent que les enseignants qualifies d’experimentateurs, qui se situent au niveau inferieur d’utilisation des TIC, ont des conceptions et des pratiques plutot behavioristes. Les enseignants collaborateurs ou adaptateurs, qui se situent a des niveaux superieurs du processus d’implantation des TIC, ont des pratiques plutot variees et affichent plus de conceptions constructivistes que les enseignants experimentateurs. La discussion analyse les liens entre les conceptions affichees par les enseignants et les usages des TIC. Teaching practices and elementary school teacher’s concepts of teaching and learning at different levels of integration of ICTs Abstract: This article describes both practices and concepts of eight elementary school teachers who are at different stages of implementation of ICT in their practice. The results, taken from interviews and observation, indicate that teachers, identified as “experimenters” and who tend to use ICT less, adopt concepts and practices that lean towards behaviourism. Teachers identified as “collaborators” or “adaptors” and who are at higher levels of integration of ICTs tend to have practices that are more varied and show evidence of internal representations leaning more towards constructivism. The discussion further analyzes the relationship between the concepts that are evoked by the teachers and their uses of ICTs.

L’utilisation pédagogique d’outils informatiques de gestion de données à l’école primaire

Une analyse des recherches portant sur l’utilisation des systemes de gestion de base de donnees et des banques de donnees dans l’enseignement au primaire et une enquete faite dans le milieu scolaire quebecois mettent en evidence les contributions possibles de ces outils dans un contexte d’apprentissage. L’article fait egalement etat des limites actuelles des outils informatiques de gestion de donnees et propose des elements de prospective. Research on database management systems and on databases for primary education avail- able in Quebec show how these tools may be helpful to learners — and in what ways the tools are limited in educational application.