Interdisciplinarity in the Practice and Theory of EducationalHistories: Reflections on the 13th Biennial Conference of theCanadian History of Education Association
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Abstract
As long-time members of the Canadian History of Education Association / L'Association canadienne d'histoire de l'éducation (CHEA/ ACHE) -Lisa gave her first CHEA paper at Lethbridge in 1992, Paul at the University of Western Ontario in 1988 -we were delighted, as Association President (Lisa) and Program and Organizing Committee Chair (Paul), to host a milestone event in the history of the Association, the 13 th Biennial Conference, in Calgary, Alberta, in October 2004.After a long lineage of successful CHEA conferences, we looked forward to the challenge of shaping the conference into a receptive intellectual atmosphere for researchers in the history of education.As the planning for the conference infrastructure and charting of the sessions got under way, we quickly realized how this conference, like preceding ones, could be a welcoming place for international academic discourse on the history of education.We were subsequently gratified by all the delegates who enthusiastically contributed to the scholarly dialogue over the three days of the conference, marking it as a success in large part due to the delegates' interest, support, and alacritous participation.During the long organizational march towards the conference dates, we were faced with a decision as to the conference theme, considering this was an event that heralded the patently important initiative started in Calgary in 1980.Having attended CHEA conferences in the past, we understood that the conferences were predicated on the belief that formal meetings and seminar and panel sessions, as well as informal social interactions among colleagues, were crucial to the exchange of intellectual ideas related to the history of education in Canada and elsewhere.What theme could be broad and flexible, yet specific, enough to encapsulate the current state of the field of study?Not much time passed before we decided on the conference theme of interdisciplinarity.Coming from the next generation after the founders of the Association, we saw the community as a multifarious group of ambitious scholars working in a richly textured field of inquiry.Since the 1980s, the history of education has attracted the serious attention of social and intellectual historians, and by the new millennium the field had been taken up by myriad academic departments and faculties such as education, history, philosophy, political studies, sociology, women's
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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 | 0.064 | 0.046 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.114 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.033 | 0.020 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.017 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.025 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".