Ce texte a pour objet de reconnaître la présence et l’apport du féminisme radical autant dans l’histoire que dans l’actualité. Relégué aux oubliettes, jugé « dépassé » et « désuet », ne remportant supposément pas l’adhésion des « jeunes » femmes, le féminisme radical est dorénavant opposé à un « nouveau » féminisme, à une « troisième vague », prétendument portée par les « jeunes » féministes. La conceptualisation de cette « troisième vague » se base sur une typologie contestable – soit une fausse équation entre idées et périodes de militance – et également sur une volonté de « dépasser » la « deuxième vague », associée à un féminisme radical simplifié et empreint d’importantes idées fausses au point de vue théorique.The object of this text is to recognize the presence and the positive aspects of radical feminism in history as much as in the present. Relegated to dark places, judged old-fashioned and antiquated, apparently not winning the favors of “young women”, radical feminism is put in opposition to a “new feminism”, a “third wave” that is supposedly carried out by “young” feminists. The conceptualization of this “third wave” is grounded on a questionable typology – that of a false equation between ideas and activism periods – and a desire to move past the “second wave”, which is associated with a simplified and theoretically misconceived radical feminism

BackgroundProfessional development is a key component of effective public health infrastructures. To be successful, professional development programs in public health and health promotion must adapt to practitioners’ complex real-world practice settings while preserving the core components of those programs’ models and theoretical bases. An appropriate balance must be struck between implementation fidelity, defined as respecting the core nature of the program that underlies its effects, and adaptability to context to maximize benefit in specific situations. This article presents a professional development pilot program, the Health Promotion Laboratory (HPL), and analyzes how it was adapted to three different settings while preserving its core components. An exploratory analysis was also conducted to identify team and contextual factors that might have been at play in the emergence of implementation profiles in each site.MethodsThis paper describes the program, its core components and adaptive features, along with three implementation experiences in local public health teams in Quebec, Canada. For each setting, documentary sources were analyzed to trace the implementation of activities, including temporal patterns throughout the project for each program component. Information about teams and their contexts/settings was obtained through documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews with HPL participants, colleagues and managers from each organization.ResultsWhile each team developed a unique pattern of implementing the activities, all the program’s core components were implemented. Differences of implementation were observed in terms of numbers and percentages of activities related to different components of the program as well as in the patterns of activities across time. It is plausible that organizational characteristics influencing, for example, work schedule flexibility or learning culture might have played a role in the HPL implementation process.ConclusionsThis paper shows how a professional development program model can be adapted to different contexts while preserving its core components. Capturing the heterogeneity of the intervention’s exposure, as was done here, will make possible in-depth impact analyses involving, for example, the testing of program–context interactions to identify program outcomes predictors. Such work is essential to advance knowledge on the action mechanisms of professional development programs.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0903-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Continuous reforms to health systems in contemporary societies have generated increased interest in professional development programs (Koo & Miner, 2010). In Quebec (Canada), the 2004 health system reform brought new challenges for local public health organizations and professionals whose practice was more often than not centered on clinical individual care. In essence, professionals were now encouraged to include health promotion interventions in their practices (Breton, Lévesque, Pineault, Lamothe, & Denis, 2008). Concretely, this meant moving toward a broader range of interventions, including, for example, actions aimed at community development and policy environments. There was also a renewed emphasis on community partnerships. To help professionals contend with this new challenge, the Regional Public Health Directorate of Montreal (PHDM) designed a professional development pilot program, the Health Promotion Laboratory (Lab), a strategy to develop and improve health promotion practices and 697067P HPXXX10.

Cette étude porte sur les représentations sociales de la grossesse à l'adolescence. Dix-huit focus groups sont menés auprès de 150 filles et garçons, âgés de 15 à 17 ans. Une analyse de contenu qualitative met en relief 4 dimensions (émotive, réflexive, psychobiologique et économico-sociale) et 4 prises de position (négative, positive, ambivalente, dynamique), autour desquelles s'organisent 4 types de significations accordées à la grossesse à l'adolescence: la grossesseproblème, la grossesse-projet, la grossesse-tension et la grossesse-pouvoir. Quelques avenues en matière de pratiques éducatives sont abordées, notamment l'importance d'aller au-delà des messages alarmistes, d'instaurer un dialogue ouvert avec et entre les jeunes et de tabler sur le soutien social et l'entraide. _____________________________________________________________________________Ce projet de recherche a été subventionné par le Conseil québécois de la recherche sociale.

Background Given the importance of continuous learning as a response to the increasing complexity of health care practice, there is a need to better understand what makes communities of practice in health effective at fostering learning. Despite the conceptual stance that communities of practice facilitate individual learning, the scientific literature does not offer much evidence for this. Known factors associated with the effectiveness of communities of practice – such as collaboration, psychological safety within the community, and commitment to the community – have been studied in cross-sectional qualitative designs. However, no studies to date have used a quantitative predictive design. The objective of this study is to assess how members of a community of practice perceive interactions among themselves and determine the extent to which these interactions predict self-assessed learning over time. Methods Data was collected using validated questionnaires from six communities of practice (N = 83) in four waves of measures over the course of 36 months and was analysed by means of General Estimating Equations. This allowed to build a longitudinal model of the associations between perceptions of collaboration, psychological safety within the community, commitment to the community and self-assessed learning over time. Results Perception of collaboration in the community of practice, a personal sense of psychological safety and a commitment to the community of practice are predictors longitudinally associated with self-assessed learning. Conclusions In terms of theory, conceptual links can be made between intensity of collaboration and learning over time in the context of a community of practice. Recent work on psychological safety suggests that it is still unclear whether psychological safety acts as a direct enhancer of learning or as a remover of barriers to learning. This study’s longitudinal results suggest that psychological safety may enhance how and to what extent professionals feel they learn over time. Commitment towards the community of practice is a strong predictor of learning over time, which hints at differential effects of affective, normative and continuance commitment. Communities of practice can therefore apply these findings by making collaboration, psychological safety, commitment and learning regular reflexive topics of discussion.

Objectif  : Cet article porte sur les « Laboratoires de promotion de la santé », un programme québécois de développement professionnel proposé par la direction régionale de Santé publique de Montréal à des équipes de professionnels et de cadres œuvrant en promotion de la santé, au sein d’organisations locales de santé publique. L’objectif est d’examiner le processus de conversion des connaissances acquises par les participants suite au programme, dans une perspective à plus long terme au sein de l’organisation. Méthode  : L’étude est de type qualitatif descriptif. Le modèle de création de connaissances organisationnelles de Nonaka a guidé les travaux. Les données ont été collectées auprès des participants de quatre sites, à l’occasion d’événements d’échange et de valorisation tenus entre 4 et 41 mois suivant la fin du projet-pilote. Une analyse de contenu thématique a été conduite à l’aide d’une grille dérivée du modèle de Nonaka. Résultats  : L’analyse a révélé la présence de processus d’externalisation et d’internalisation dans deux des sites ainsi qu’un important volume de combinaisons dans les quatre sites. Dans ce dernier cas, les apprentissages réutilisés à plus long terme se sont avérés similaires à ceux qui avaient été transférés à court terme (notions et méthodes en lien avec le partenariat, processus de planification, etc.). Conclusion  : Ces résultats confirment le potentiel des laboratoires à faire irradier les apprentissages dans l’organisation, au-delà des acquis réalisés à court terme par les participants pendant les laboratoires. Ces apprentissages ont le potentiel de paver la voie à de nouvelles pratiques au sein de l’organisation.

This issue of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation (CJPE) is one of our most comprehensive to date. Not only does it include five full articles, fi ve practice notes, and two book reviews, but it also covers a wide range of evaluation-related topics, practices, and studies. I am pleased to note that our editorial team contin ues to receive high-quality submissions, and I encourage you to keep thinking of the CJPE as an outlet for your work. The articles and practice notes included in this issue focus on four recurring themes that reflect current topics in our field. First, evaluative thinking and capac ity building in non-governmental organizations is the subject of articles by Rog ers, Kelly, and McCoy, as well as by Lu, Elliot, and Perlman. Both articles provide insights into the facilitators of, and barriers to, evaluation capacity building as well as the multiple roles played by evaluators in fostering evaluative thinking amongst organizational staff members. Second, process evaluation appears to be of interest to many evaluators and researchers: Leblanc, Gervais, Dubeau and Delame focus on process evaluation for mental health initiatives, while Parrott and Carman pro vide an example of how process evaluation can contribute to program scaling-up efforts. Chechak, Dunlop, and Holosko also focus on process evaluation and its utility in evaluating youth drop-in programs. Teachers and students of evaluation may be interested in our third theme, which focuses on student contributions to evaluation, both through peer-mentoring-as described in the practice note written by LaChenaye, Boyce, Van Draanen, and Everett-and through the CES Student Evaluation Case Competition-described in a practice note written by Sheppard, Baker, Lolic, Soni, and Courtney. And fourth, we continue to advance our methodological approaches to evaluation, and this is reflected in an article on evaluation in Indigenous contexts by Chandna, Vine, Snelling, Harris, Smylie, and Manson, as well as in an article on the use of an outcome monitoring tool for performance measurement in a clinical psychology setting by Rosval, Yamin, Jamshidi, and Aubry. Czechowski, Sylvestre, and Moreau also feature methods in their practice note on secure data handling for evaluators, a key competency that continues to evolve as our data collection and storage mechanisms adapt to new technology. In addition to these articles and practice notes, this issue also features two book reviews that are sure to interest our readers. First, Bhawra provides an account of