TWO WORLDS, COLONIALISM ON THE CANADIAN PRAIRIE, AND THE ‘JUST’ LEARNING SOCIETY: A RENEWED VISION FOR ADULT EDUCATION
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The dualistic nature of adult education as serving the instrumental needs of the workplace, for instance, while remaining committed to issues of social justice is examined in light of the Indigenous metaphor of ‘walking in two worlds.’ This Janus-like duality is illustrated at the outset through the Indigenous story of Coyote’s Eyes as a relationship of imbalance, or disequilibrium, between the two worlds served by adult education. In this essay a brief and selective history of colonialism on the Canadian prairie through the Southern Numbered Treaties (1871-1877), and broadly through the White Paper policy of 1969, is considered with respect to its implications for Indigenous peoples and for adult education as educative practice. As a way toward a sense of balance, or equilibrium, between the two masters of instrumentality and social purpose served by adult education, Michael Welton’s vision of a ‘just’ learning society is brought to light as having potential for a renewed vision for adult education as a balanced, equitable educative practice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.058 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".