VALUE PLURALISM & NEGATIVE FREEDOM IN CANADIAN EDUCATION: THE TRINITY AND SURREY CASES
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Abstract
ABSTRACT. This paper revolves around two recently decided cases by the Supreme Court of Canada that illustrate how that Court views fundamental legal rights in terms of public policy and administrative decision making by creatures of statute in a free society. The protagonists in each case differ, as do the legal arguments, but the salient socio-political issues are the same, the conflict between value pluralism and value monism, and what Isaiah Berlin calls positive and negative liberty. That is, should society enforce one set of values over all others, and if not, when, if ever, ought public values enshrined in law, trump private values that are also legally protected? Based upon the Court's approach to resolving incommensurable rights in conflict this paper reflects on how educational policy and decision makers might deal with that conundrum by considering matters of positive and negative liberty from a communitarian perspective white nurturing value pluralism, and freedom. PLURALISME ET LIBERTE INDIVIDUELLE DANS L'EDUCATION AU CANADA: LES CAUSES DE TRINITY ET DE SURREY RESUME Cette etude porte sur deux recentes decisions rendues par la Cour supreme du Canada qui illustrent comment cette Cour interprete les droits juridiques fondamentaux en matiere de politique publique et de prise de decision administrative par la creation de lois dans une societe libre. Dans les deux cas, les protagonistes et les arguments juridiques different, mais les enjeux socio-politiques importants sont les memes, soit le conflit entre le pluralisme et le monisme et ce que Isaiah Berlin appelle liberte sociale et liberte individuelle. Plus precisement, la societe doit-elle imposer un ensemble de valeurs plutot qu'un autre, et, sinon, dans quelles situations, le cas echeant, les valeurs publiques enchâssees dans la loi devraient-elles l'emporter sur les valeurs privees qui sont egalement protegees par la loi? L'etude, qui se fonde sur l'approche de la Cour pour prendre des decisions relativement a des droits incommensurables conflictuels, examine de quelle facon les decideurs dans le domaine educatif peuvent envisager cette enigme en prenant en consideration les questions de liberte sociale et individuelle d'un point de vue communautarien, tout en cultivant le pluralisme et la liberte.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.044 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".