“It’s a Powerful Thing”: Arts-based Community Research on Intergenerational Learning in Indigenous Textiles
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Working on an arts-based community research project to explore intergenerational learning about textiles in Indigenous communities of practice provided original and unexpected results about knowledge transfer among generations of weavers and beaders. The arts-based, story-telling methodology employed, both engaged intergenerational adult learners in discussions about their lives, and produced examples of healing, resilience, and knowledge sharing that were community-based and socially complex. This research on intergenerational learning and knowledge transfer in Indigenous textile arts production was a multidisciplinary project that intersected with adult learning in transnational contexts between Chile and Saskatchewan; and with examples from women who identified as Cree, Dene, Metis and Mapuche. The participants gathered in their perspective countries (and communities) in story-telling discussion circles to share knowledge and testimonies about their work in beading and weaving. Significant to the study was the use of academic and community collaborators along with the arts-based Indigenous methodologies used when the women gathered to tell stories as part of the research process. Among other things, this included considerable efforts building relational networks with Indigenous communities of practice, developing ethical and appropriate frameworks, and drawing upon postcolonial methodologies (Chilisa, 2012; Green, 2007; Tuhiwai-Smith, 1999). The methodologies also included using artifacts to draw out memories, stories and testimonies about intergenerational learning. The results demonstrated how textile production among Indigenous women was both historically- and culturally-constructed, and how contemporary politics of globalization have created intergenerational shifts in the meaning and understandings of the work for the people involved in it. Understandings were particularly different for young women and elders. The research mobilization phase of the research involved the study participants deciding how they wanted to share the results of the research. In Saskatchewan, this included an art gallery exhibit of beading; in Chile efforts to write a book. Several unexpected outcomes surfaced, in addition to exposing the work of the Indigenous women (ages 24-95 years) to a wider audience – academic, community-based, collectors, artists and the public. Context was also a factor in outcomes that demonstrated both similarities and differences in the sites of the study.
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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 | 0.021 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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".