Posted: October 18, 2026
The rise of the internet and digitization posed an existential threat to libraries. Their survival,
however, is due to their ability to reinvent themselves – transforming this threat into an opportunity, and
embracing innovative traje
Posted: October 18, 2026
Drawing on advances in service economics and management, this article adopts a
perspective of the library as an ‘architectural’ or ‘assembled’ service bringing together a number of core and
peripheral services, and mobilizing competences and different types of technology to collaboratively generate,
utilities for the user or community
Posted: April 22, 2026
This article, published by Éditions Eres in the Vie sociale series (No. 52), presents the findings of an action research project conducted in a Year 1 class with seven pupils experiencing language difficulties. The project, which aims to create an illustrated book, utilises AI to generate draft text and graphics and to analyse interactions during each session. The results show that the AI functioned as a non-prescriptive mirror. It enabled the teacher to objectively identify instances of over-guidance or missed opportunities to allow the pupils’ ideas to emerge. This feedback facilitated concrete adjustments. The article thus proposes the framework of the ‘augmented reflective practitioner’, where technology informs professional judgement without replacing it.

Posted: April 12, 2026
Key words : artificial intelligence in education, adult- and AI-mediated writing, collaborative
writing in early primary education, teacher reflexivity, action research.
Posted: April 2, 2026
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